- Poshan Abhiyan’ or ‘National Nutrition Mission’ (NNM)
- Ministry: Ministry of Women and Child Development
- Objective: to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia and low birth weight babies.
- main components of the Abhiyaan are: ensuring convergence with various programmes; incentivizing States/ UTs for achieving goals; IT enabled Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM); Evaluation; weighing efficiency and making nutrition visible; Community mobilization awareness advocacy; IEC, Jan Andolan – to educate the people on nutritional aspects, on-line Course on Nutrition for Children, Nutrition message from folk songs and songs on WASH, sending messages on nutrition and also creating ring-tones, Yoga for children at AWCs; strengthening human resource; measuring height and length of children below 6 years of age.
- Targets: to reduce stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.
- It also strives to achieve a reduction in Stunting from 38.4% to 25% by 2022 (Mission 25 by 2022).
