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  • The government has approved the setting up of a National Nutrition Mission (NNM) to rein in malnourishment and stunted growth.
  • NNM will address three aspects—the food that should be given to rein in stunting, undernourishment, low birthweight and anaemia. 
  • The government is targeting a reduction of 2% a year in stuntingundernutrition and low birth weight among 100 million people.
  • Also, it aims to reduce anaemia among young children, women and adolescent girls by 3% a year.
  • The mission would include several components like an ICT (information and communications technology)-based real-time monitoring system, incentivizing of states and Union territories to meet their targets, social audits, and setting up of nutrition resource centres. 

Implementation:

  • Under NNM, the ministries of women and child development, health and family welfare, and water and sanitation will work together. 
  • The mission will form an apex body that would fix targets and monitor, supervise and guide nutrition-related interventions across the ministries.
  • The implementation strategy would be based on intense monitoring and a convergence action plan up to the grass-roots level.
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