{"id":6679,"date":"2023-03-19T05:33:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T00:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:50:13","slug":"what-is-poshan-pakhwada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-poshan-pakhwada\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Poshan Pakhwada?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Poshan Pakhwada:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Poshan Pakhwada aims to raise awareness about the importance of nutrition and promote healthy eating habits through Jan Andolan and Jan Bhagidari.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>theme<\/strong> of this year\u2019s Poshan Pakhwada 2023 is <strong>&#8220;Nutrition for All: Together Towards a Healthy India&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>With the declaration of 2023 as the International Year of Millets, this year the focus of Poshan Pakhwada will be to <strong>popularise \u2018Shree Anna\u2019-<\/strong> the mother of all grains, as a valuable asset to address malnutrition.<\/li>\n<li>The activities during the Poshan Pakhwada will focus, inter alia, on the following key themes:\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Promotion and popularization of Shree Anna \/ Millets for nutritional<\/strong>&#8211; well-being through the organization of drives to link Millet-based foods with supplementary nutrition, Home visits, Diet consultation camps, etc<\/li>\n<li><strong>Celebration of Swasth Balak Spardha:<\/strong> Celebrate and recognize the \u2018Swasth Balak\u2019 or Healthy Child as per defined criteria by generating a healthy spirit of competition for good nutrition good health and well being<\/li>\n<li><strong>Popularize Saksham Anganwadis:<\/strong> Campaigns will be organized to increase awareness and popularise Saksham Anganwadis with upgraded infrastructure and facilities as centres of improved nutrition delivery and early childhood care and education.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> Ministry of Women and Child Development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Poshan Abhiyaan?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Poshan Abhiyaan, launched by the Prime Minister of India on 8th March 2018, has been instrumental in ensuring people\u2019s participation and bringing the discourse on <strong>nutrition to the forefront.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Poshan Abhiyan was launched to improve nutritional outcomes holistically.<\/li>\n<li>Behavioural change at the individual and community levels is an important component to achieve the <strong>desired goals of a Kuposhan-mukt Bharat.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Millets?<\/h3>\n<p>Millets are cereal crops and small seed grasses, which are widely used in African and Asian countries. Since ages, these small crops were used for human consumption as well as a fodder for animals. Majorly cultivated in the semiarid tropical regions of Africa and Asia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1908478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>5th Poshan Pakhwada celebrations\u00a0 begin tomorrow<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Poshan Pakhwada aims to raise awareness about the importance of nutrition and promote healthy eating habits through Jan Andolan and Jan Bhagidari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}