- 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 stunting, undernutrition 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.