Lok Sabha Question No. 105 (STARRED), answered on 2017-12-22
Subject: National Nutrition Mission
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH, SADHU SINGH

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 105

TO BE ANSWERED ON 22/12/2017

## NATIONAL NUTRITION MISSION

105. SHRI KUNWAR HARIBANSH SINGH: PROF. SADHU SINGH:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  recently  approved  setting  up  of  new  National  Nutrition Mission  (NNM) to  address  the  problem  of  malnutrition  in  the  country,  if  so,  the  salient features and aims/objectives thereof along with the manner in which it is different from the previous NNM;
- (b) the financial outlay for the next three years under the Mission along with the number of persons to be benefited therefrom;
- (c) whether the Government proposes to make Aadhaar registration compulsory for children availing food under the Mission to prevent fake registration of children and if so, the details thereof along with the progress made in regard to registration of children with Aadhaar;
- (d) whether the Government has conducted any survey/investigation to identify fake registration  of  children  in  anganwadi  centres,  if  so,  the  details  and  the  outcome  thereof, State/UT-wise; and
- (e) the mechanism put in place to monitor effective implementation of the Mission?

## ANSWERS

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI MANEKA SANJAY GANDHI)

- (a) to (e)  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## Statement referred to in reply to Part(a) to ( e) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 105 for 22.12.2017 by Shri Kunwar Haribansh Singh and Prof. Sadhu Singh regarding National Nutrition Mission.

The  Government  has  recently  approved  the  setting  up  of  new  National  Nutrition  Mission (NNM) to address the problem of malnutrition in the country at a total cost         of ₹ 9046.17 crore for a period of three years i.e. 2017-18 to 2019-20.

The salient features of the Mission are: (i) ensuring convergence with various programmes; (ii)  incentivizing  States/Union  Territories  for  achieving  targeted  goals;  (iii)  Information  and Communication Technology enabled Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM)  of ICDS; (iv) Evaluation  by  NITI  Aayog;  (v)  Setting  up  of  National  Nutrition  Resource  Centre  (NNRC)  at National level and State Nutrition Resource Centre (SNRC) in each State/Union Territory; (vi) Providing  weighing scales to ensure weighing through real time alerts for prompt interventions; (vii) Community mobilisation awareness advocacy and Information Education Communication through    local  institutions,  innovation  and  Jan  Andolan  by  educating  people  on  nutritional aspects, on-line Course on Nutrition for Children, Nutrition message from folk songs and songs on  WASH,  sending  messages  on  nutrition  and  also  creating  ring-tones,  Yoga  for  children  at AWCs; (viii) strengthening human resource; (ix) measuring height and length of children below 6 years of age for early detection of stunting and wasting; and (x) strengthening of Training & Capacity  Building,  Community  Mobilization  &  Behaviour  Change  &  Communication  (BCC) and Community Based Management of Severely Acute Malnourished (SAM) children.

Roll out of NNM: 315 districts in 2017-18, 235 districts in 2018-19 and remaining districts in 2019-20. A total of more than 10 crore are likely to be benefitted from the Mission.

Targets: NNM  targets  to  reduce  stunting,  under-nutrition,  anemia  ( among  young  children, women and adolescent girls )  and reduce low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.

Earlier National Nutrition Mission lacked most of the above components.

The  use  of  Aadhaar  as  identity  document  for  delivery  of  services  or  benefits  or  subsidies simplifies the Government delivery processes, brings in transparency and efficiency, and enables beneficiaries  to  get  their  entitlements  directly  to  them  in  a  convenient  and  seamless  manner. Aadhaar obviates the need for producing multiple documents to prove one's identity.  Aadhaar would  be  unique  identified  of  the  beneficiaries.  However,  the  beneficiaries'  not  possessing Aadhaar card would be assisted by the field functionaries to obtain the Aadhaar card. Till such time, they would be provided the Anganwadi Services on the basis of alternative identification document. This would help in individual and Aadhaar based tracking of children for nutritional outcomes and would also aid in area based tracking of under-nutrition status in the country.

No  survey  has  been  conducted  to  identify  the  fake  registration  of  children  in  Anganwadi Centres.

NNM  has  Information  Communication  Technology  based  real-time  monitoring  system through  Common  Application  Software  (CAS)  for  effective  operation  of  the  system  and  to provide IT-related assistance to the field functionaries. Project Staff is assigned with task of Help Desks  at  District  and  Block  levels  respectively.  To  digitize  and  computerize  the  various  data generated  at  the  AWCs,  Tablets  and  Smart  Phones  and  other  Information  Technology  (IT) related equipment are provided to Lady Supervisors (LSs) and Aanganwadi Workers (AWWs). For this  exercise,  AWWs are  entitled for incentivize @ ₹ 500.00  per  month  for  actually  using these devices for collection of data.