{"id":90237,"date":"2019-12-30T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12632"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T11:56:09","slug":"3-years-on-a-mere-30-of-poshan-abhiyaan-funds-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/3-years-on-a-mere-30-of-poshan-abhiyaan-funds-used\/","title":{"rendered":"3 years on, a mere 30% of Poshan Abhiyaan funds used"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to the data shared in Parliament, State governments\/UTs have utilised a mere 30% of the funds released under the Poshan Abhiyaan or the National Nutrition Mission since it was launched in 2017.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways from the data:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The five best performers in terms of fund utilisation were Mizoram , Lakshadweep, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.<\/li><li>The worst five performers were Punjab, Karnataka, Kerala, Jharkhand and Assam.<\/li><li>The programme was conceptualised to be implemented in phases so the utilisation will increase over the years.<\/li><li>However,few services have showed a slow start and are now pickling up like the Integrated Child Development Services-Common Application Software(ICDS-CAS).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Poshan Abhiyan:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Prime Minister\u2019s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition or POSHAN Abhiyaan or National Nutrition Mission is Government of India\u2019s flagship programme.<\/li><li>It is aimed at improving nutritional outcomes among pregnant women, lactating mothers and children by reducing the level of stunting, underweight, anaemia and low birth weight by 2022.<\/li><li>The mission is implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.<\/li><li>The mission targets to reduce stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia (among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Although the target to reduce Stunting is at least 2% p.a.,it strives to achieve a reduction in Stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The 50% of the funding is through budgetary support.It is further divided into 60:40 between the Centre and the States, 90:10 for north-eastern region and the Himalayan States and 100% for the Union Territories without legislature.<\/li><li>The remaining 50% is from the World Bank or other multilateral development banks.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/fcf2_Nl0WTRVR920MG5RO6QN2Q5o-Q1lG2DnqVZQbjr_xWj6P6abxxBJBQk5KO5Nze7E4-3njrhsUqvH3WP_-NPKEyERqKyyYnLdbLr2CkQRLAvq8Ll_iaSDRJzwYWYjFurxok8K\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About ICDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) was launched in 1975.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The scheme comes under the purview of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>The beneficiaries under the Scheme are children in the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objectives of ICDS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>improve the nutritional and health status of children aged 0-6 years<\/li><li>lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child<\/li><li>reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout,&nbsp;<\/li><li>promote child development through effective coordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments,<\/li><li>impart proper nutrition and health education to mothers for enhancing mother&#8217;s capability to address normal health and nutritional needs of the child.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to the data shared in Parliament, State governments\/UTs have utilised a mere 30% of the funds released under the Poshan Abhiyaan or the National Nutrition Mission since it was launched in 2017. Facts: Key takeaways from the data: The five best performers in terms of fund utilisation were Mizoram , Lakshadweep, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/3-years-on-a-mere-30-of-poshan-abhiyaan-funds-used\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">3 years on, a mere 30% of Poshan Abhiyaan funds used<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[7446],"class_list":["post-90237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-poshan-abhiyaan","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704753787},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90237","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}