National Nutrition Mission

Poshan Abhiyaan

 Poshan Abhiyaan, also known as the National Nutrition Mission and launched in

2018 (although the programme was being implemented in 2017) by the Government of

India with the aim of tackling the malnutrition problem prevalent in India.

 The chief objective of the mission is to reduce the level

enhance the nutritional status of children in the country.

 The mission is a multi-ministerial initiative and aims at removing malnutrition from the

country by 2022.

 Poshan Abhiyaan is India’s flagship scheme to improve the nu

adolescents, children, pregnant women and lactating mothers.

 The mission leverages technology and convergence between various modules and

departments.

 The term ‘Poshan’ in the name of the programme stands for ‘Prime Minister’s

Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition.

 The programme has specific targets for reducing stunting, anaemia, under

low birth weight.

According to project the National Nutrition Mission aims to achieve a reduction in

stunting from 38.4% to 25% by 2022.

 Tackling Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) and instances of Moderate Acute

Malnutrition (MAM).

 The mission also encompasses mapping of various other schemes related to

malnutrition and enabling synergies through ICT-based real-time monitoring system,

robust convergence between the schemes, incentivising states and UTs for meeting the

set targets, and optimising Anganwadi centres’ functioning, apart from conducting social

audits.

Specific Targets of NNM

The National Nutrition Mission aims at achieving the following:

 Reduce stunting by 2% annually.

 Reduce under-nutrition by 2% annually.

 Reduce anaemia by 3% annually.

 Reduce low birth weight by 2% annually.

Rakesh Garhwal