Poshan Pakhwada Being Celebrated from 16th to 31st March
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18th Mar, 2021
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Context
- Ministry of Women and Child Development is celebrating PoshanPakhwada from 16th to 31st March 2021. It is an endeavor to support the PoshanAbhiyan.
About the PoshanPakhwada 2021
Objectives
- Addressing nutritional challenges through Food Forestry
- Organizing PoshanPanchayats
- PoshanPanchayat will be organized involving members of PRIs for generating awareness on topics like malnutrition prevalence and its consequences, Poshan Vatika, food forestry, identification of SAM/MAM children, and its management.
Implementation
- Central: Ministry of Women & Child Development will be the nodal Ministry for coordinating activities during the PoshanPakhwada.
- State: In the State/UT, Department of Women & Child Development /Social Welfare Department will be the nodal department for PoshanPakhwada.
Poshan Abhiyan or National Nutrition Mission
- The Union Cabinet approved the setting up of the National Nutrition Mission (NNM) with three-year objectives in 2018.
Features:
- The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition-related interventions across the Ministries.
- The proposal consists of
- mapping of various schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition
- introducing a very robust convergence mechanism
- ICT based Real-Time Monitoring system
- incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets
- incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) for using IT-based tools
- eliminating registers used by AWWs
- introducing measurement of the height of children at the AnganwadiCentres (AWCs)
- Social Audits
- setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation in nutrition through various activities, among others.
Outcomes of nutritional efforts
- Despite the presence of exhaustive nutritional drive and Food Security Act India has not able to do away with the hunger level and ranked far below in the Global Hunger Index. A large population is still grappled with hunger and malnutrition.
- The GHI 2020 report has placed India 94thposition among 107 countries, much behind Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal.
Global Hunger Index 2020
- It is jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.
- It was first produced in 2006.
- It is published every October.
- The GHI score is determined on a 100-point scale based on these four parameters.
GHI is based on four indicators:
- The proportion of undernourished in a population
- The proportion of children under the age of five suffering from wasting (less weight in proportion to their height)
- The proportion of children under five suffering from stunting (low height in proportion to their age)
- The mortality rate of children under five
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