As
per the Report of Nutritional Intake in India, 2011-12 published under 68th
round of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), it is observed:
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Among
the bottom 5% of rural population ranked by Monthly per Capita Expenditure
(MPCE), 57% of households had calorie intake below 2160 Kcal/consumer unit/day,
which was only 2% for the top 5% wealth fractile of the population.
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Average
protein intake per capita per day was seen to rise steadily with MPCE level in
rural India from 43gm for the bottom 5% of population ranked by MPCE to 91gm
for the top 5%, and in urban India from 44gm for the bottom 5% to about 87gm
for the top 5%.
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Per
capita fat intake was about 100g in the top fractile class of the urban sector
and about 27gm in the lowest fractile class. In the rural sector the intake of
the top fractile class was 92gm while that of the bottom class was 21gm.
Average
dietary energy intake per person per day was 2233 Kcal for rural India and 2206
Kcal for urban India. At the all-India level protein intake per person per day
was 60.7gm in the rural sector and 60.3gm in the urban. Average fat intake for
the country as a whole was about 46gm per person per day in the rural sector
and 58gm in the urban sector.
State-wise
distribution is given below:
State-wise
distribution of nutrient intake as per 68th round of NSSO
from
the report “Nutritional Intake in India, 2011-12:
|
|
calorie
intake (Kcal) per day per capita
|
protein
intake (gm) per day per capita
|
fat
intake (gm) per day per capita
|
|
State
|
Rural
|
Urban
|
Rural
|
Urban
|
Rural
|
Urban
|
|
Andhra
Pradesh
|
2365
|
2281
|
59.9
|
59.3
|
49.9
|
55.2
|
|
Assam
|
2170
|
2110
|
55.1
|
54.9
|
29.6
|
39.2
|
|
Bihar
|
2242
|
2170
|
62.9
|
60.9
|
39.2
|
42.5
|
|
Chhattisgarh
|
2162
|
2205
|
51.7
|
55.8
|
31.5
|
42.2
|
|
Gujarat
|
2024
|
2154
|
53.7
|
56.3
|
61.5
|
73.1
|
|
Haryana
|
2441
|
2443
|
72.8
|
68.6
|
68.6
|
74.7
|
|
Jharkhand
|
2138
|
2175
|
54.7
|
60.3
|
30.8
|
44.2
|
|
Karnataka
|
2164
|
2245
|
56.0
|
59.1
|
50.5
|
59.8
|
|
Kerala
|
2162
|
2198
|
61.0
|
62.7
|
50.8
|
54.6
|
|
Madhya
Pradesh
|
2234
|
2209
|
65.0
|
63.1
|
45.2
|
55.9
|
|
Maharashtra
|
2260
|
2227
|
60.7
|
61.2
|
60.1
|
66.8
|
|
Odisha
|
2215
|
2191
|
53.4
|
55.9
|
27.1
|
37.7
|
|
Punjab
|
2483
|
2299
|
70.0
|
64.9
|
70.3
|
69.2
|
|
Rajasthan
|
2408
|
2320
|
71.9
|
66.7
|
61.9
|
66.7
|
|
Tamil
Nadu
|
2052
|
2112
|
53.3
|
55.7
|
44.5
|
52.0
|
|
Uttar
Pradesh
|
2200
|
2144
|
62.6
|
61.1
|
42.6
|
52.8
|
|
West
Bengal
|
2199
|
2130
|
55.6
|
57.9
|
35.2
|
48.4
|
|
India
|
2233
|
2206
|
60.7
|
60.3
|
46.1
|
58.0
|
The
Government has accorded high priority to the issue of malnutrition in the
country and is implementing several schemes/programmes under different
Ministries/Departments through State Governments/UT Administrations, the
details being as follows:
• Under
multi-sectoral approach for accelerated action on the determinants of
malnutrition in targeting nutrition in schemes/programmes of all the sectors.
The schemes/programmes include the Integrated Child Development Services
(ICDS), National Health Mission (NHM), Mid-Day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Schemes
for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) namely SABLA, Indira Gandhi
Matritva Sahyog Yojna (IGMSY) as direct targeted interventions. Besides,
indirect Multi-sectoral interventions include Targeted Public Distribution
System (TPDS), National Horticulture Mission, National Food Security Mission,
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan, National Rural Drinking Water Programme etc. All these schemes
address one or other aspect of Nutrition.
• The
specific interventions targeted towards the vulnerable groups include children
below 6 years. The main schemes/programmes of Ministry of Women and Child
Development which have a bearing on the nutritional status includes the
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme which provides a package of
six services namely supplementary nutrition, pre-school non-formal education,
nutrition & health education, immunization, health check-up and referral
services.
• Under
National Health Mission of Ministry of Health & FW, the remedial steps
taken are as follows:
-
Promotion
of appropriate infant and young child feeding practices that include early
initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding till 6 months of age and
appropriate complementary feeding after 6 months of age.
-
Management
of malnutrition and common neonatal and childhood illnesses at community and
facility level by training service providers in IMNCI (Integrated Management of
Neonatal and Childhood Illnesses) training.
-
Treatment
of children with severe acute malnutrition at special units called the
Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs), set up at public health facilities.
Presently 891 such centres are functional all over the country.
-
Specific
program to prevent and combat micronutrient deficiencies of Vitamin A and Iron
& Folic Acid (IFA) in under-five children, children of 5 to 10 years of
age, and adolescents. National Iron Plus Initiative has been launched with
provision for supervised and intermittent IFA supplementation to under-five children.
-
Village
Health and Nutrition Days and Mother and Child Protection Card are the joint
initiative of the Ministries of Health & Family welfare and the Ministry of
Woman and Child for addressing the nutrition concerns in children, pregnant
women and lactating mothers.
The
Health Minister, Shri J P Nadda stated this in a written reply in the Lok Sabha
here today.
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MV/LK