Issues relating to poverty and hunger

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GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT

Important points:

• Government has accorded high priority to the issue of malnutrition and is committed to improve nutrition outcomes in the country and implements Anganwadi Services, Pradhan MantriMatruVandanaYojana and Scheme for Adolescent Girls under the Umbrella Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) as targeted interventions to address the problem of malnutrition in the country.
• Further, to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach and outcomes with focus on developing practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity and to achieve the sustainable development goals, steps have been taken to improve nutritional quality and testing in accredited labs, strengthen delivery and leverage technology to improve governance.
• Government has advised States/UTs to ensure that the quality of supplementary nutrition conforms to prescribed standards laid down under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 and regulations made thereunder.
• States/UTs have been advised to promote use of AYUSH systems for prevention of malnutrition and related diseases. A programme to support development of PoshanVatikas at Anganwadicenters to meet dietary diversity gap leveraging traditional knowledge in nutritional practices has also been taken up.

SOURCE:PIB