Lok Sabha Question No. 1904 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-07-30
Subject: POSHAN Mission 2.0
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Anto  Antony, Behanan Benny, Adoor Prakash, Amar Singh

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1904

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2021

## POSHAN Mission 2.0

1904.  SHRI ANTO ANTONY: SHRI BENNY BEHANAN: ADV. ADOOR PRAKASH: DR. AMAR SINGH:

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

- (a)      whether  according  to  National  Family  Health  Survey-5  report  16  States  have reported  an  increase  in  underweight  children  and  12  states  reported  severely wasted children;
- (b)      if so, the details thereof along with the reasons why Mission Poshan 2.0 targeted only 112 aspirational districts while undernutrition and malnutrition related issues are not limited to only these districts;
- (c)       whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  there  is  a  18.5  percent  reduction  in  the budget for Mission Poshan 2.0 in 2021-22 compared to the budget in 2020-21 for erstwhile schemes which were merged into it;
- (d)       if so, the reasons therefor; and
- (e)      the detailed plan/ steps along with the timeline decided to achieve the targets set under the Poshan Abhiyaan?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a)        The  data  on  nutrition  indicators  is  captured  under  the  National  Family  Health Surveys conducted periodically by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The NFHS4  was  conducted  in  2015-16  and  NFHS-5  was  conducted  in  2019-20.  State/UT  wise details  of  stunting,  wasting  and  underweight  among  children  under  5  years,  as  per NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 is annexed as Annexure I . The recently released report of NFHS-5 is available only for 22 States/UTs.

A  drastic  change  in  the  status  of  child  nutrition  indicators  like  severely  wasted  and stunting, which are chronic in nature, is unlikely to happen  in short interval of time. As reported under NFHS-5, nutritional status has improved in many States despite the short interval  of  four  years  between  the  survey  rounds.  Furthermore,  all  the  NFHS-5  point estimates  for  the  nutritional  indicators  fall  within  the  confidence  interval  and  for  most States no significant change is witnessed.

(b)       POSHAN Abhiyaan was launched on 8 th March, 2018, with an objective to reduce malnutrition  and  achieve  improvement  in  nutritional  status  of  Children  from  0-6  years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner.

Mission Poshan 2.0 (Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0) announced in budget 20212022 targets beneficiaries including pregnant women and lactating mothers, children in the age group of 0-6 years across all States/UTs and adolescent girls in the age group of 14-18 years in Aspirational Districts and NER.

(c)  &  (d)      For  the  year  2020-21,  the  Budget   allocation  for  the  Schemes  comprising Anganwadi Services, POSHAN Abhiyan and Scheme for Adolescent Girls was ₹24,482 crore and the Revised Budget allocation was ₹17902.31 crore. During the year 2021-22, after rationalization, these three schemes have been clubbed and named as 'Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0' having budgetary provision of ₹20,105 crore which is 12.3% more than the Revised Budget allocation of ₹17902.31 crore. Further, the expenditure of funds in respect of above three schemes was ₹16233.35 crore which clearly indicates that adequate funds were available to meet the demands of the States/UTs. In order to ensure proper and effective utilisation of funds under Mission Poshan 2.0, a robust ICT enabled platform named Poshan Tracker has been designed to capture real time data on implementation  and  monitoring  of  Anganwadi  Services  across  the  country.  Additional funds, if required, would be sought at R.E stage for the year 2021-22 from the Ministry of Finance.

(e)         Mission  Poshan 2.0 is an integrated nutrition support programme, to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach and outcomes with focus on developing practices that nurture health, wellness and immunity to disease and malnutrition. Mission Poshan 2.0 has been approved for 5 years (2021-22 to 2025-26) and realigns nutrition centric sub-schemes namely Anganwadi Services (Supplementary Nutrition Programme - SNP), Scheme for Adolescent Girls, and POSHAN Abhiyaan.

Under Mission Poshan 2.0 steps have been taken to improve nutritional quality and testing in accredited labs, strengthen delivery and leverage technology to improve governance. Also, States/UTs have been advised to promote use of AYUSH systems for prevention of malnutrition and related diseases. A programme to support development of Poshan Vatikas at Anganwadi centres to meet dietary diversity gap leveraging traditional knowledge in nutritional practices has also been taken up.

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Annexure I

Statement referred to in reply to Part (a) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No.1904 for  30.07.2021  by SHRI  ANTO  ANTONY,  SHRI  BENNY  BEHANAN,  ADV.  ADOOR PRAKASH and DR. AMAR SINGH regarding POSHAN Mission 2.0.

## Stunting, Wasting and Underweight (NFHS-4 and NFHS-5)

| S.No.   |                                    | Stunting   | Stunting   | Wasting   | Wasting   | Underweight   | Underweight   |
|---------|------------------------------------|------------|------------|-----------|-----------|---------------|---------------|
| S.No.   | State/UT                           | NFHS-4     | NFHS-5     | NFHS-4    | NFHS-5    | NFHS-4        | NFHS-5        |
| 1       | Andaman & Nicobar Islands          | 23.3       | 22.5       | 18.9      | 16        | 21.6          | 23.7          |
| 2       | Andhra Pradesh                     | 31.4       | 31.2       | 17.2      | 16.1      | 31.9          | 29.6          |
| 3       | Assam                              | 36.4       | 35.3       | 17        | 21.7      | 29.8          | 32.8          |
| 4       | Bihar                              | 48.3       | 42.9       | 20.8      | 22.9      | 43.9          | 41            |
| 5       | Dadra & Nagar Haveli & Daman & Diu | 37.2       | 39.4       | 26.7      | 21.6      | 35.8          | 38.7          |
| 6       | Goa                                | 20.1       | 25.8       | 21.9      | 19.1      | 23.8          | 24            |
| 7       | Gujarat                            | 38.5       | 39         | 26.4      | 25.1      | 39.3          | 39.7          |
| 8       | Himachal Pradesh                   | 26.3       | 30.8       | 13.7      | 17.4      | 21.2          | 25.5          |
| 9       | Jammu & Kashmir                    | 27.4       | 26.9       | 12.2      | 19        | 16.6          | 21            |
| 10      | Karnataka                          | 36.2       | 35.4       | 26.1      | 19.5      | 35.2          | 32.9          |
| 11      | Kerala                             | 19.7       | 23.4       | 15.7      | 15.8      | 16.1          | 19.7          |
| 12      | Lakshadweep                        | 30.9       | 30.5       | 9.3       | 17.5      | 18.7          | 20.4          |
| 13      | Ladakh                             | 26.8       | 32         | 13.7      | 17.4      | 23.6          | 25.8          |
| 14      | Maharashtra                        | 34.4       | 35.2       | 25.6      | 25.6      | 36            | 36.1          |
| 15      | Meghalaya                          | 28.9       | 23.4       | 6.8       | 9.9       | 13.8          | 13.3          |
| 16      | Manipur                            | 43.8       | 46.5       | 15.3      | 12.1      | 28.9          | 26.6          |
| 17      | Mizoram                            | 28.1       | 28.9       | 6.1       | 9.8       | 12            | 12.7          |
| 18      | Nagaland                           | 28.6       | 32.7       | 11.3      | 19.1      | 16.7          | 26.9          |
| 19      | Sikkim                             | 29.6       | 22.3       | 14.2      | 13.7      | 14.2          | 13.1          |
| 20      | Telangana                          | 28         | 33.1       | 18.1      | 21.7      | 28.4          | 31.8          |
| 21      | Tripura                            | 24.3       | 32.3       | 16.8      | 18.2      | 24.1          | 25.6          |
| 22      | West Bengal                        | 32.5       | 33.8       | 20.3      | 20.3      | 31.6          | 32.2          |
| 23      | Arunachal Pradesh                  | 29.4       | -          | 17.3      | -         | 19.4          | -             |
| 24      | Chandigarh                         | 28.7       | -          | 10.9      | -         | 24.5          | -             |
| 25      | Chhattisgarh                       | 37.6       | -          | 23.1      | -         | 37.7          | -             |
| 26      | Delhi                              | 31.9       | -          | 15.9      | -         | 27            | -             |
| 27      | Haryana                            | 34         | -          | 21.2      | -         | 29.4          | -             |
| 28      | Jharkhand                          | 45.3       | -          | 29        | -         | 47.8          | -             |
| 29      | Madhya Pradesh                     | 42         | -          | 25.8      | -         | 42.8          | -             |
| 30      | Orissa                             | 34.1       | -          | 20.4      | -         | 34.4          | -             |
| 31      | Puducherry                         | 24         | -          | 23.8      | -         | 22.7          | -             |
| 32      | Punjab                             | 25.7       | -          | 15.6      | -         | 21.6          | -             |
| 33      | Rajasthan                          | 39.1       | -          | 23        | -         | 36.7          | -             |
| 34      | Tamil Nadu                         | 27.1       | -          | 19.7      | -         | 23.8          | -             |
| 35      | Uttar Pradesh                      | 46.3       | -          | 17.9      | -         | 39.5          | -             |
| 36      | Uttarakhand                        | 33.5       | -          | 19.5      | -         | 26.6          | -             |

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