{"id":217222,"date":"2022-12-05T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=217222"},"modified":"2022-12-05T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:21:36","slug":"recrafting-india-nutrition-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/recrafting-india-nutrition-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Recrafting India nutrition initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cRecrafting India nutrition initiative\u201d <\/strong>published in The Indian Express <\/strong>on 5th December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Poverty and hunger<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– The article explains the issues of health and nutrition in India<\/p>\n

According to RGI, India’s maternal mortality rate was 97 during 2018-20. It was 301 during 2001-03.Infant mortality rate was 27 in 2021. It was 58 in 2005.<\/p>\n

As per NFHS-5, 35.5% of children under 5 are stunted, 19.3% are wasted.<\/p>\n

What is NRHM? <\/strong><\/h5>\n

NRHM was launched in 2005 to provide accessible and affordable healthcare<\/strong>. It also provides secondary and tertiary services .<\/p>\n

It seems to have a positive impact on health indicators. Though allocations for NRHM did not keep pace.<\/p>\n

What explains the gains of NRHM? <\/strong>It had a clear thrust on crafting a credible public health system. Community connect, human resources and flexible financial resources <\/strong>are available at all levels.<\/p>\n

Central. State governments partnered with civil society with full involvement of frontline workers. Community monitoring <\/strong>was done by civil society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The approach was pragmatic<\/strong> and provided for diversity of state-specific interventions.<\/strong> The planning was decentralised<\/strong>. States and districts prepared their own annual plans.<\/p>\n

Institution building<\/strong> was facilitated in work with panchayats and Rogi Kalyan Samitis. Professionals were brought in to improve the process.<\/p>\n

Why the programmes to reduce malnutrition has not been successful?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Poshan Abhiyan <\/strong>is not able to solve the chal;lenges of malnutrition.<\/p>\n

The initiatives for nutrition have remained compartmentalised and fragmented<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Institutional role<\/strong> of local panchayats and communities with untied funds is still lagging.<\/p>\n

What steps are needed to tackle the challenge of malnutrition?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

ICDS needs to be revamped to converge with health, education, water, sanitation and food security at all levels under the local government umbrella,<\/p>\n

It is important to allow for context-specific and need-based prioritisation<\/strong> at every Anganwadi centre by allowing flexibility through decentralised local action<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gram panchayats, women collectives and community organisations should be responsible for education, health, nutrition and livelihoods. Panchayats led committees<\/strong> of concerned wider departments are needed at block and district zila parishad level.<\/p>\n

There is a need for operationalizing village-specific planning processes<\/strong> with decentralised financial resources.<\/p>\n

Encouraging diversity of local foods<\/strong> including millets and ensuring availability of basic drugs and healthcare facilities are required.<\/p>\n

There is a need to intensify behaviour change<\/strong> through communication.<\/p>\n

Creating a platform for adolescent girls in every village for their empowerment <\/strong>and diversified livelihood is needed.<\/p>\n

It calls for a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach<\/strong>. Nutrition challenge is also a women empowerment<\/strong> challenge. Decentalised is the way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cRecrafting India nutrition initiative\u201d published in The Indian Express on 5th December 2022. Syllabus: GS2- Poverty and hunger News– The article explains the issues of health and nutrition in India According to RGI, India’s maternal mortality rate was 97 during 2018-20. It was 301 during 2001-03.Infant mortality… Continue reading Recrafting India nutrition initiative<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-217222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217222","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\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}