POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission)

National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyan)

• Features: POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission) is a flagship programme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), Government of India, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Jhunjhunu in Rajasthan on the occasion of the International Women’s Day on March 8, 2018.
• Financial Outlay:The National Nutrition Mission (NNM) has been set up with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18. This will be funded by Government Budgetary Support (50%) and 50% by IBRD or other MDB.
  • Government budgetary support would be 60:40 between Centre and States/UTs, 90:10 for NER and Himalayan States and 100% for UTs without legislature. Total Government of India share over a period of three years would be Rs. 2849.54 crore.
• Objective: The goals of NNM are to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner during the next three years beginning 2017-18.
• Benefits and Coverage: All the States and districts will be covered in a phased manner i.e. 315 districts in 2017-18, 235 districts in 2018-19 and remaining districts in 2019-20.
• Implementation Strategy and Targets: NNM targets to reduce stunting, under- nutrition, anemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.
  • Although the target to reduce Stunting is atleast 2% p.a., the mission would strive to achieve reduction in Stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022 (Mission 25 by 2022).
• Pillar of the Mission: The following components will form the pillars of the Mission
  • ICDS-CAS(Common Application Software)
  • Convergence
  • Behavioural change, IEC Advocacy
  • Training and Capacity building
  • Innovations
  • Incentives
  • Grievance Redressal

One Liners Based on NNM:

1. POSHAN Abhiyaan has been introduced by which ministry?
2. When was the POSHAN Abhiyaan launched?
3. The mission was launched in which state?
4. What is the time span and objective of the mission?
5. What is the total budget allocated to the mission?
6. What will be government’s share in the budget?
7. How many districts will be covered under the scheme for the fiscal 2018-19?
8. Govt aims to reduce stunting to 25% by which year?
9. The mission aims to reduce low birth weight by __________ percent annually.
10. The mission is based on how many pillars?

Quiz on POSHAN Abhiyaan (National Nutrition Mission)