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Government of India
Ministry of Women and Child Development
08 DEC 2021 3:40PM by PIB Delhi
Steps Taken by Government to Address Malnutrition

The Government has accorded high priority to the issue of malnutrition and is implementing several schemes like Anganwadi Services, Scheme for Adolescent Girls and Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) under the Umbrella Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme as direct targeted interventions to address the problem of malnutrition in the country.

The beneficiaries under the Anganwadi Services scheme are children in the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers. The supplementary nutrition is provided to pregnant women & Lactating mothers in the type of Take Home Ration. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is implemented with an aim to provide cash incentive to improve health seeking behaviour amongst the Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers (PW&LM) and compensate for partial wage loss.

Further, POSHAN Abhiyaan launched on 8th March 2018, aims to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner by adopting a synergised and result oriented approach.

Mission Poshan 2.0, an integrated nutrition support programme has been announced in budget 2021-2022 for all States/UTs. It seeks to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach and outcomes with focus on developing practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity to disease and malnutrition. Steps have been taken to improve nutritional quality and testing in accredited labs, strengthen delivery and leverage technology under Poshan Tracker to improve governance. Guidelines were issued for transparency and accountability in delivery of supplementary nutrition and to track nutritional outcomes on 13.01.2021.

The details of funds allocated to State/UTs and expenditure under the POSHAN Abhiyaan from FY 2018-19 to 2020-21 is at Annexure-I.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

 

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Annexure I

 

Details of funds allocated to States/UTs and expenditure under POSHAN Abhiyaan from FY 2018-19 to 2020-21.

Amount in ₹ lakhs

SN

State/UT

Total Central Funds released from

FY 2018-19 to FY 2020-21

Total Central Funds utilization as on
31st March 2021

1

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

936.25

421.44

2

Andhra Pradesh

25363.32

16601.84

3

Arunachal Pradesh

2815.88

708.11

4

Assam

32948.67

18117.52

5

Bihar

49365.6

27823.99

6

Chandigarh

1099.87

513.96

7

Chhattisgarh

12137.21

6505.25

8

Dadra Nagar Haveli and

774.31

682.98

Daman & Diu

686.7

9

Delhi

3327.18

2432.58

10

Goa

456.04

222.24

11

Gujarat

29976.16

21769.01

12

Haryana

6808.82

4326

13

Himachal Pradesh

10973.21

7010.78

14

Jammu & Kashmir

9178.53

7912.09

15

Jharkhand

8154.95

5245.93

16

Karnataka

14276.52

11133.42

17

Kerala

10974.73

6696.51

18

Ladakh

164.59

51.41

19

Lakshadweep

427.36

287.27

20

Madhya Pradesh

39398.53

18516.83

21

Maharashtra

58390.84

40154.5

22

Manipur

4389.99

2138.4

23

Meghalaya

5073.39

4979.05

24

Mizoram

2732.96

2575.03

25

Nagaland

5327.67

5239.26

26

Odisha

16358.58

7555.69

27

Puducherry

943.62

264.58

28

Punjab

7346.86

2470.04

29

Rajasthan

23830.57

10349.79

30

Sikkim

1370.99

1276.83

31

Tamil Nadu

25931.46

19476.85

32

Telangana

17906.84

14824.33

33

Tripura

4135.95

3155.13

34

Uttar Pradesh

56968.96

19219.28

35

Uttarakhand

13574.89

7898

36

West Bengal

26751.08

0

Total

531279.08

298555.92

 

 

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