{"id":54477,"date":"2025-07-09T14:07:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=54477"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:43:09","slug":"national-nutrition-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-nutrition-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"National Nutrition Mission (Poshan Abhiyaan), Features, Objectives"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Nutrition Mission which was launched on March 8, 2018 is now known as Poshan Abhiyaan introduced to improve the nutritional status of children (0-6 years), adolescent girls, pregnant women, and lactating mothers, aiming to reduce stunting, wasting, and anemia. This scheme was implemented across all 36 States\/UTs, including Tamil Nadu and Odisha, it majorly focused on the use of technology, convergence, and behavior change through Jan Andolan.<\/span><\/p>\n

National Nutrition Mission Objectives<\/b><\/h2>\n
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  1. The scheme was launched to increase the level of nutritional status of children (0-6 years), adolescent girls, pregnant women, and lactating mothers within a timeframe from 2017-18.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Ensure integrated efforts by Aligning with programs like Anganwadi Services, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, Janani Suraksha Yojana, National Health Mission, Swachh Bharat Mission, PDS, and MGNREGS.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Tackles stunting, under-nutrition, and anemia in women and adolescents, providing direct cash transfers as a transformative approach to eradicate malnutrition.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    National Nutrition Mission Features<\/b><\/h2>\n
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    1. This scheme focuses on maternal nutrition, child feeding practices, treatment of severe acute malnutrition, and wellness through AYUSH.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Provide access to nutritious fruits, vegetables, and herbs.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Provide the food which is diet diverse, food fortified, using millets, and doing rice allocation.<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Poshan Tracker ensures real-time monitoring and better governance.<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Over 10 lakh Anganwadi Workers trained with growth monitoring devices deployed for effective implementation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      National Nutrition Mission Challenges<\/b><\/h2>\n
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      1. Though the policy was introduced with a strong intention, addressing malnutrition requires a multi-dimensional approach, making effective implementation challenging.<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. Ministries and departments involved in healthcare often function independently, affecting collaboration.<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. Only 16% of the allocated funds for 2018-19 were utilized, highlighting inefficiencies in resource deployment.<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. Absence of real-time data monitoring and gaps in sustainability and accountability mechanisms can weaken the impact of the National Nutrition Mission (NNM).<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. Effective implementation demands substantial human resources, and challenges such as power supply, literacy, and sensitive use of technology in low-and-middle-income regions require extensive capacity-building efforts.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        National Nutrition Mission Achievements<\/b><\/h2>\n
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        1. Stunting has decreased from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 35.5% (NFHS-5).<\/span><\/li>\n
        2. Wasting has reduced from 21.0% to 19.3%.<\/span><\/li>\n
        3. Underweight prevalence has dropped from 35.8% to 32.1%.<\/span><\/li>\n
        4. Ministries and departments prepare nutrition-related action plans and align them with ongoing activities.<\/span><\/li>\n
        5. State, district, and block-level convergence meetings ensure coordinated implementation.<\/span><\/li>\n
        6. Over 1 crore millet-focused activities were organized in 2023 to promote nutritious diets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          National Nutrition Mission targets malnutrition in India through community-based programs on maternal & child health, nutrition education, and real-time monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[1481],"class_list":{"0":"post-54477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-studies","8":"tag-national-nutrition-mission","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}