Poshan Abhiyaan: Nourishing the Nation
On 8th March 2025, POSHAN (Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition) Abhiyaan, launched in 2018, successfully completed seven years.
Need for the Poshan Scheme
- Persistent poor nutrition during the most critical period of growth and development can result in stunting or children being short for their age. Likewise, acute nutritional deprivation leads to wasting in children, causing thinness (too thin for their height).
- The financial case for investing in maternal and child nutrition is strong, as good nutrition is linked to improved child development and consequently to national development.
- The brain attains 80% of its adult size by three years of ....
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