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✅ POSHAN Abhiyaan: 1st meeting of National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges held in New Delhi
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▪️The first meeting of National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges under POSHAN Abhiyaan was held in New Delhi.

▪️It saw participation of NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar, CEO Amitabh Kant and representatives of various ministries of Central and State Governments.

✔️ National Council on India’s Nutritional Challenges

▪️Its mandate is to provide policy directions to address countries nutritional challenges through coordinated inter-sectoral action.

▪️It is also mandated to coordinate and review convergence between Ministries and review programmes for nutrition on a quarterly basis. It will submit its report to the Prime Minister every 6 months.

✔️ POSHAN Abhiyaan

▪️POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan in March 2018. POSHAN stands for Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition.

▪️It aims to ensure holistic development and adequate nutrition for pregnant women, mothers and children.

▪️It targets to reduce level of under-nutrition and other related problems by ensuring convergence of various nutrition related schemes. It also targets stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and low birth rate.

▪️It will monitor and review implementation of all such schemes and utilize existing structural arrangements of line ministries wherever available.

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