National Nutrition Strategy
Necessity for National Nutrition Strategy
The National Nutrition Strategy was launched to correct the present pathetic nutrition situation in the country, especially among the vulnerable sections like - women and children.
The present nutrition situation can be assessed from the below given facts from the NFHS-3&4.
Constitutional Provision Regarding Nutrition
Food Safety and Standards (Fortification of Foods) Regulations, 2018
Special Nutrition Programme (SNP)
Balwadi Nutrition Programme
Wheat Based Supplementary Nutrition Programme
The scheme was started with the twin objective of providing supplementary nutrition to children and popularising wheat intake. Min of Food places at the disposal of the Department of Women and child Development about 100 thousand tonnes of wheat from the central reserves annually and that Department, in turn, sub-allocates this wheat among States which utilize the wheat mostly to produce wheat based ready-to-eat nutrition supplements. With the spread of ICDS, this wheat or its products are increasingly being utilised for distribution of supplementary nutrition in ICDS and mid-day-meal programmes. The wheat is supplied to the State Governments by the Food Corporation of India at the same subsidised rates as for the public distribution system.
National Food Security Act 2013
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Mid-Day Meal Scheme
National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education, popularly known as the Mid-Day Meal Scheme (MDM) was started in 1995 in an attempt to enhance enrolment, retention and attendance while simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children in school. It currently covers nearly 12 crore children.
Institutions
National Technical Board on Nutrition (NTBN)
National Institute of Nutrition (NIN)