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(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: POSHAN Abhiyan - Fight Against Malnutrition

Topic: POSHAN Abhiyan - Fight Against Malnutrition

Guest:

Dr. Ajay Khera, (Commissioner, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare)
Aditi Tandon, (Special Correspondent, The Tribune)
Dr. Punit Mishra, (Professor, Community Medicine, AIIMS)

Topic Description:

In a bid to tackle malnutrition, government is developing an Atlas to map the crops and food grains grown in different regions of the country so that nutritious protein rich food in local areas can be promoted. The ministry of Women and Child Development in association with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Deendayal Research Institute is developing a POSHAN atlas under POSHAN abhiyan, government's multi-ministerial convergence mission with the vision to ensure attainment of malnutrition free India by 2022. According to the World Bank Global Nutrition Report – 2018, malnutrition costs India at least $10 billion annually in terms of lost productivity, illness and death and is seriously retarding improvements in human development and further reduction of childhood mortality. POSHAN abhiyan is focusing on ensuring the nutrition of children, women, and pregnant mothers in impoverished areas and the government seems to be looking at community management of the problem.