Steps Taken For Alleviation of Malnutrition
Poshan Vatikas at Anganwadi Centers Taken Up
For alleviation of malnutrition, Government has announced Mission Poshan 2.0 to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach and outcomes with focus on developing practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity to disease and malnutrition. 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 there under. States/UTs have been advised to promote use of AYUSH systems for prevention of malnutrition and related diseases. A programme to support development of Poshan Vatikas at Anganwadi centers to meet dietary diversity gap leveraging traditional knowledge in nutritional practices has also been taken up.
Government implements Anganwadi Services, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana 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. The financial assistance provided to the States/UTs under these schemes during last year is at Annexure I, II and III respectively.
The overall under five mortality rate (number of deaths per thousand live births) has reduced from 74.0 as reported by 3rd National Family Health Survey report released in 2005-06 to 50.0 as 4th National Family Health Survey report released in 2015-16.
This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
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Annexure-I
Funds released during last year (2019-20) to States/UTs in respect of Scheme for Anganwadi Services:
| Sl. No. | State/UTs | SNP | ICDS (GENERAL) | |
| Funds released during 2019-20 (Rupees in Lakhs) | Funds released during 2019-20
(Rupees in Lakhs) | |||
| 1 | ANDHRA PRADESH | 32726.24 | 29729.92 | |
| 2 | BIHAR | 76100.71 | 47936.4 | |
| 3 | CHHATTISGARH | 20930.7 | 24932.85 | |
| 4 | GOA | 826.38 | 684.14 | |
| 5 | GUJARAT | 33671.97 | 32422.06 | |
| 6 | HARYANA | 4205.09 | 13106.67 | |
| 7 | JHARKHAND | 22959.33 | 19206.2 | |
| 8 | KARNATAKA | 42657.55 | 31421.97 | |
| 9 | KERALA | 14085.21 | 17534.3 | |
| 10 | MADHYA PRADESH | 71534.93 | 45572.99 | |
| 11 | MAHARASHTRA | 78949.43 | 50087.82 | |
| 12 | ODISHA | 49466.82 | 33428.03 | |
| 13 | PUNJAB | 5346.54 | 13993.14 | |
| 14 | RAJASTHAN | 29913.62 | 28231.53 | |
| 15 | TAMIL NADU | 37341.72 | 25108.19 | |
| 16 | TELANGANA | 22519.69 | 21987.17 | |
| 17 | UTTAR PRADESH | 148686.46 | 82387.61 | |
| 18 | WEST BENGAL | 59862 | 51068.97 | |
| 19 | DELHI | 4425.64 | 8573.36 | |
| 20 | PUDUCHERRY | 0 | 453.16 | |
| 21 | HIMACHAL PRADESH | 7655.5 | 16651.3 | |
| 22 | JAMMU & KASHMIR | 2341.36 | 28275.8 | |
| 23 | UTTARAKHAND | 13308.15 | 16103.22 | |
| 24 | ANDAMAN & NICOBAR | 327.44 | 802.54 | |
| 25 | CHANDIGARH | 705.52 | 622.16 | |
| 26 | D. & NAGAR HAVELI | 185.75 | 375.9 | |
| 27 | DAMAN & DIU | 139.88 | 121.59 | |
| 28 | LAKSHADWEEP | 55.14 | 71.84 | |
| 29 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 2332.96 | 9472.2 | |
| 30 | ASSAM | 49541.69 | 57539.63 | |
| 31 | MANIPUR | 4980.21 | 10678.57 | |
| 32 | MEGHALAYA | 11582.97 | 6624.75 | |
| 33 | MIZORAM | 2041.49 | 2566.79 | |
| 34 | NAGALAND | 7390.27 | 7636.36 | |
| 35 | SIKKIM | 291.42 | 1636.62 | |
| 36 | TRIPURA | 7028.04 | 8849.84 | |
| Total | 866117.82 | 745895.59 | ||
Annexure II
State/UT-wise and Year-wise details of funds released and funds utilised during the financial years 2019-20 under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
| Sl. No. | State/UT | Funds released during 2019-20 (Rs. In Lakh) |
| 1 | A & N Islands | 127.03 |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 10,125.00 |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 0.00 |
| 4 | Assam | 12,594.97 |
| 5 | Bihar | 10,187.67 |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 399.34 |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 5,292.96 |
| 8 | Dadra & Nagar Haveli | 146.80 |
| 9 | Daman & Diu | 103.91 |
| 10 | Goa | 140.13 |
| 11 | Gujarat | 10,267.92 |
| 12 | Haryana | 6,586.80 |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 3,368.73 |
| 14 | Jammu & Kashmir | 3,012.10 |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 6,338.22 |
| 16 | Karnataka | 11,952.84 |
| 17 | Kerala | 6,418.56 |
| 18 | Ladakh | – |
| 19 | Lakshadweep | 17.92 |
| 20 | Madhya Pradesh | 28,515.68 |
| 21 | Maharashtra | 29,413.53 |
| 22 | Manipur | 411.51 |
| 23 | Meghalaya | 421.47 |
| 24 | Mizoram | 812.10 |
| 25 | Nagaland | 266.85 |
| 26 | NCT Of Delhi | 2,687.95 |
| 27 | Odisha | 0.00 |
| 28 | Puducherry | 159.84 |
| 29 | Punjab | 3,553.68 |
| 30 | Rajasthan | 9,651.71 |
| 31 | Sikkim | 87.99 |
| 32 | Tamil Nadu | 4,620.70 |
| 33 | Telangana | 0.00 |
| 34 | Tripura | 529.44 |
| 35 | Uttar Pradesh | 40,556.13 |
| 36 | Uttarakhand | 2,766.00 |
| 37 | West Bengal | 8,768.76 |
| Total | 2,20,304.24 | |
Annexure III
Funds released during last year (2019-20) to States/UTs in respect of Scheme for Adolescent Girls
| Sl.No. | States/UT | Funds released during 2019-20 (Rs. in Lakhs) |
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | 127.39 |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 33.71 |
| 3 | Assam | 488.62 |
| 4 | Bihar | 582.91 |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | 48.40 |
| 6 | Goa | 43.03 |
| 7 | Gujarat | 1937.79 |
| 8 | Haryana | 70.56 |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | 0 |
| 10 | Jammu & Kashmir | 46.53 |
| 11 | Jharkhand | 254.39 |
| 12 | Karnataka | 1253.33 |
| 13 | Kerala | 1.08 |
| 14 | Madhya Pradesh | 1118.38 |
| 15 | Maharashtra | 925.32 |
| 16 | Manipur | 96.86 |
| 17 | Meghalaya | 1278.91 |
| 18 | Mizoram | 13.56 |
| 19 | Nagaland | 223.29 |
| 20 | Odisha | 72.60 |
| 21 | Punjab | 0 |
| 22 | Rajasthan | 59.39 |
| 23 | Sikkim | 0.00 |
| 24 | Tamil Nadu | 32.28 |
| 25 | Telangana | 0.00 |
| 26 | Tripura | 32.27 |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh | 1827.57 |
| 28 | Uttaranchal | 0 |
| 29 | West Bengal | 126.72 |
| 30 | A & N Islands | 1.02 |
| 31 | Chandigarh | 2.46 |
| 32 | Daman & Diu | 0 |
| 33 | D & NH | 0.42 |
| 34 | Delhi | 12.84 |
| 35 | Lakshadweep | 0.07 |
| 36 | Pondicherry | 0 |
| Total | 10867.05 | |