{"id":122339,"date":"2021-07-30T20:26:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=122339"},"modified":"2021-07-31T12:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T06:44:25","slug":"over-9-lakh-kids-most-from-up-acutely-malnourished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-9-lakh-kids-most-from-up-acutely-malnourished\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 9 lakh kids, most from UP, acutely malnourished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/over-9-lakh-kids-most-from-up-acutely-malnourished\/articleshow\/84874886.cms\"><strong>TOI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Ministry of Women and Child Development has informed Rajya Sabha about the status of the Malnourishment of Children in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Malnourishment in Children:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Over 9.3 lakh<\/strong> severely acute malnourished (SAM) children between six months and six years have been identified in the country till November 2020.\u00a0<strong>Out of this number,<\/strong> Uttar Pradesh accounted for over 4 lakh, such children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Government Initiatives to tackle Malnutrition among Children:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Under Integrated Child Development Services(ICDS)<\/strong>, supplementary nutrition is provided to children, including severely malnourished children in the age group of 6 months-6 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The government has launched its flagship program Poshan Abhiyan <\/strong>aimed at reducing malnutrition. Under this, the target is to bring down stunting of children under 6 years from 38.4% to 25% by the year 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poshan Tracker: <\/strong>Poshan Tracker was launched under Mission Poshan 2.0. The tracker provides real-time monitoring and information relating to various parameters of service delivery and malnutrition under Poshan Abhiyan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Undernutrition among Women:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>According to the National Family Health Survey-4(2015-16),<\/strong> the prevalence of undernutrition among women was 22.9% as compared to males (20.2%).\u00a0<strong>This is an improvement<\/strong> from the levels of 35.5% and 34.2% respectively reported in NFHS-3 (2005-06).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: TOI What is the News? The Ministry of Women and Child Development has informed Rajya Sabha about the status of the Malnourishment of Children in India. Malnourishment in Children: Over 9.3 lakh severely acute malnourished (SAM) children between six months and six years have been identified in the country till November 2020.\u00a0Out of this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/over-9-lakh-kids-most-from-up-acutely-malnourished\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over 9 lakh kids, most from UP, acutely malnourished<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704748230},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}