{"id":286508,"date":"2024-03-11T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=286508"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:08:22","slug":"zero-food-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zero-food-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Zero-food children"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>-This post on Zero-food children<\/strong> has been created based on the article “Report turns spotlight on India\u2019s \u2018zero-food children<\/strong><\/a>” published in “The Hindu<\/strong>” on 8 March 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the news?<\/h2>\n

A recent study had ranked India as having the third-highest percentage of children who had not eaten any food for 24 hours.<\/p>\n

About Zero-food children<\/h2>\n
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It refers to those children who did not consume any animal milk, formula, or solid or semi-solid food during the last 24 hours.
\nThis category is critical because, at approximately six months of age, breastfeeding alone is insufficient to meet the nutritional needs of a child.<\/p>\n

Findings of recent studies<\/h2>\n

1) As per the study published recently in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open journal, India ranks third highest globally, with 19.3% of children not receiving food, following Guinea (21.8%) and Mali (20.5%). In terms of numbers, India has the highest number of zero-food children at more than six million.<\/p>\n

2) As per the study of Lancet Discovery Science, Uttar Pradesh alone accounts for 28.4% of zero-food children in India followed by Bihar (14.2%), Maharashtra (7.1%), Rajasthan (6.5%), and Madhya Pradesh (6%).<\/p>\n

What are the steps taken by government to curb malnutrition in India<\/strong>?<\/h2>\n

1) Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme<\/span>: It was launched in 1975 to provide food, preschool education, primary healthcare, immunization, health checkups, and referral services to children under 6 years old and their mothers.
\n2) Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)<\/span>: It is a Centrally Sponsored DBT scheme with a cash incentive of \u20b9 5000\/- (in three instalments) being provided directly in the bank\/post office account of Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers.
\n3) National Nutrition Mission (NNM)<\/span><\/a>: The government of India has launched the National Nutrition Mission (NNM), also known as POSHAN Abhiyaan, to eradicate malnutrition by the year 2022.
\n4) Anaemia Mukt Bharat Abhiyan<\/span>: The mission was launched in 2018 to accelerate anaemia decline by one to three percentage points annually.
\n5) Mid-day Meal (MDM) scheme<\/span>: It aims to improve nutrition levels among school children in addition to increasing enrolment, retention, and attendance.
\n6) National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013<\/span>: It ensures food and nutrition security for the most vulnerable section of society.<\/p>\n

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Source-This post on Zero-food children has been created based on the article “Report turns spotlight on India\u2019s \u2018zero-food children” published in “The Hindu” on 8 March 2024. Why in the news? A recent study had ranked India as having the third-highest percentage of children who had not eaten any food for 24 hours. About Zero-food… Continue reading Zero-food children<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1305],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-286508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286508","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\/10374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}