Lok Sabha Question No. 4089 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-24
Subject: Beneficiaries under Poshan 2.0
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Aparajita Sarangi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4089

TO BE ANSWERED ON 24.03.2023

## BENEFICIARIES UNDER POSHAN 2.0

## 4089.  SHRIMATI APARAJITA SARANGI:

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

- (a) the details of funds granted and utilized under Poshan 2.0 scheme till date, State/UT-wise;
- (b) the number of beneficiaries under Poshan 2.0 scheme indicating the number of adolescent girls out of them benefitted thereunder;
- (c) the number of beneficiaries in Odisha under Poshan 2.0 scheme;
- (d) whether the Government has real time data on stunted and wasted children in the country; and
- (e) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) To strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach, and outcomes, Government has aligned the Anganwadi Services, Supplementary Nutrition Programme, revised Scheme for Adolescent Girls and POSHAN Abhiyaan to launch Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 (Mission Poshan 2.0) for all States/UTs. The details of funds released and utilized under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 is at Annexure I.
- (b) Total number of beneficiaries registsred under POSHAN 2.0 is 10.18 crores, out of which  18.89  lakh  are  adolescent  girls  registered  under  the  revised  Scheme  for Adolescent Girls (14-18 yrs) in North Eastern States and Aspirational Districts
- (c)   Total  number  beneficiaries  under  POSHAN  2.0  in  the  State  of  Odisha  is  43, 96,538.
- (d) to (e) POSHAN Abhiyaan seeks to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children under 6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers. IT systems have therefore been leveraged to strengthen and bring about transparency in nutrition delivery support systems. The 'Poshan Tracker' application was rolled out by this Ministry on 1stMarch 2021 through National e-Governance Division (NeGD), as  an  important  governance  tool.  Technology  under  Poshan  Tracker  is  being leveraged  for  dynamic  identification  of  stunting,  wasting,  under-weight  prevalence among children; and last mile tracking of nutrition service delivery.

The Poshan Tracker facilitates near real-time monitoring and tracking of all AWCs, AWWs and beneficiaries on defined indicators. Beneficiaries are being Aadhar seeded to ensure last mile tracking and delivery of services. Poshan Tracker will help Mission Poshan  2.0  in  generating  data,  providing  feedback  to  Program  Managers  and documenting  the  impact  of  scheme  on  nutrition  indicators.  The  Ministry/  States/ Districts can thus make effective timely interventions, based on the data from tracker and  evaluate  the  progress  of  different  components.   As  per  data  from  POSHAN Tracker for the month of February 2023,  20.28% children (0 to 5 years) are moderately stunted and 5.1 % are moderately wasted.

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## Annexure I

State-wise statement of funds released and utilization under POSHAN Abhiyaan (as on 28.02.2023)

## Amount in ₹lakhs

| Sl.                        | States/UTs        |   Total Central Funds released till 28.02.2023 |   Total Central Funds utilised as on 28.02.2023 |
|----------------------------|-------------------|------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
| 1                          | A & N ISLANDS     |                                       1343.49  |                                          413.54 |
| 2                          | ANDHRA PRADESH    |                                      25363.3   |                                        17560.8  |
| 3                          | ARUNACHAL PRADESH |                                       2815.88  |                                         1064.21 |
| 4                          | ASSAM             |                                      32948.7   |                                        21276.3  |
| 5                          | BIHAR             |                                      49365.6   |                                        30678.4  |
| 6 CHANDIGARH               |                   |                                        890.04  |                                          573.96 |
| 7                          | CHHATTISGARH      |                                      11434.5   |                                         7303.88 |
| 8 D & N HAVELI and DAMAN & | DIU               |                                       1196.11  |                                          769.67 |
| 9                          | DELHI             |                                       3327.18  |                                         2549.6  |
| 10                         | GOA               |                                        456.04  |                                          249.13 |
| 11                         | GUJARAT           |                                      29127.7   |                                        22074.1  |
| 12                         | HARYANA           |                                       6808.82  |                                         5790.88 |
| 13                         | HIMACHAL PRADESH  |                                      10895.4   |                                         7711.43 |
| 14                         | JAMMU & KASHMIR   |                                       9224.35  |                                         9160.82 |
| 15                         | JHARKHAND         |                                       6665.8   |                                         5467.55 |
| 16 KARNATAKA               |                   |                                      14276.5   |                                        13221.9  |
| 17                         |                   |                                      10444.9   |                                         7474.28 |
| 18                         | KERALA LADAKH     |                                        118.768 |                                            9.94 |
| 19 LAKSHADWEEP             |                   |                                        425.65  |                                          356.05 |
| 20 MADHYA PRADESH          |                   |                                      39398.5   |                                        20087.8  |
| 21 MAHARASHTRA             |                   |                                      60810.8   |                                        43714.4  |
| 22                         | MANIPUR           |                                       4389.99  |                                         3714.79 |
| 23                         | MEGHALAYA         |                                       5073.39  |                                         5073.39 |
| 24 MIZORAM                 |                   |                                       3328.51  |                                         2575.03 |
| 25                         | NAGALAND          |                                       5624.11  |                                         5263.99 |
| 26 ODISHA                  |                   |                                      28014.5   |                                        15172.1  |
| 27                         | PUDUCHERRY        |                                        943.62  |                                          264.58 |
| 28                         | PUNJAB            |                                       6909.84  |                                           30.24 |
| 29                         | RAJASTHAN         |                                      22904.2   |                                        12258.1  |
| 30                         | SIKKIM            |                                       1370.99  |                                         1370.99 |
| 31 TAMIL                   | NADU              |                                      25060.4   |                                        21879.4  |
| 32                         | TELANGANA         |                                      17906.8   |                                        15786.9  |
| 33                         | TRIPURA           |                                       4135.95  |                                         3774.79 |
| 34 UTTAR                   | PRADESH           |                                      56969     |                                        41834.8  |
| 35 UTTARAKHAND             |                   |                                      13574.9   |                                        10769.9  |
| 36                         | WEST BENGAL       |                                      26751.1   |                                            0    |
| Total                      | Total             |                                     540295     |                                       357278    |

| Funds released under Anganwadi Services Scheme for the year 2022-23 (Upto 10.03.2023)   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|                      | (Rupees in lakhs)    | (Rupees in lakhs)          | (Rupees in lakhs)   | (Rupees in lakhs)   |
|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
|                      | STATE 2              | Services (General) SNP 3 4 | Saksham 5           | Total 6             |
|                      | 1ANDHRA PRADESH      | 28407.75                   | 27851.95 525.58     | 56785.28            |
| 2BIHAR               | 2BIHAR               | 54637.62                   | 95193.61 1697.77    | 151529.00           |
| 3CHHATTISGARH        | 3CHHATTISGARH        | 25307.02                   | 26449.51 1957.92    | 53714.45            |
| 4GOA                 | 4GOA                 | 763.13                     | 435.93 0            | 1199.06             |
| 5GUJARAT             | 5GUJARAT             | 25501.13                   | 25253.98 609.45     | 51364.56            |
| 6HARYANA             | 6HARYANA             | 14545.67                   | 4439.28 3.56        | 18988.51            |
| 7 HIMACHAL PRADESH   | 7 HIMACHAL PRADESH   | 5887.07                    | 1795.96 72.86       | 7755.89             |
|                      |                      | 23602.71                   | 5250                |                     |
| 8JAMMU & KASHMIR     | 8JAMMU & KASHMIR     |                            |                     | 28852.71            |
| 9JHARKHAND           | 9JHARKHAND           | 19053.2                    | 16647.15 3028.88    | 98729.23            |
| 10KARNATAKA          | 10KARNATAKA          | 11210.69                   | 10603.88 116.12     | 21814.57            |
| 11KERALA             | 11KERALA             | 17063.87                   | 9787.21             | 26967.20            |
| 12MADHYA PRADESH     | 12MADHYA PRADESH     | 44170.13                   | 52148 1021.3        | 97339.43            |
| 13MAHARASHTRA        | 13MAHARASHTRA        | 54123.66                   | 102176.49           | 156300.15           |
| 14ODISHA             | 14ODISHA             | 34791.57                   | 44941.67 2920.92    | 82654.16            |
| 15PUNJAB             | 15PUNJAB             | 0                          | 6568.4              | 6568.40             |
| 16RAJASTHAN          | 16RAJASTHAN          | 30578.55                   | 49697.77 102.93     | 80379.25            |
| 17TAMIL NADU         | 17TAMIL NADU         | 8475.18                    | 29266.8 290.76      | 38032.74            |
| 18TELANGANA          | 18TELANGANA          | 19046.94                   | 16521.87 221.91     | 35790.72            |
| 19UTTAR PRADESH      | 19UTTAR PRADESH      | 79039.12                   | 188948.75 1015.8    | 269003.67           |
| 20UTTARAKHAND        | 20UTTARAKHAND        |                            | 49386.15 2308.19    | 106227.34           |
| 21WEST BENGAL        | 21WEST BENGAL        | 54533                      |                     |                     |
| 22DELHI              | 22DELHI              | 9921.39                    | 5868.93 0.00        | 15790.32            |
|                      | 23PUDUCHERRY         | 0                          | 0 0.00              | 0.00                |
| 24 ANDAMAN &NICOBAR  | 24 ANDAMAN &NICOBAR  | 384.23                     | 0 0.00              | 384.23              |
| 25CHANDIGARH         | 25CHANDIGARH         | 832.39                     | 2328.3 0            | 3160.69             |
| 26DNH & DD           | 26DNH & DD           | 116.53                     | 102.52 0.00         | 219.05              |
| 27LADAKH             | 27LADAKH             | 1253.86                    | 622.71 0.00         | 1876.57             |
| 28LAKSHADWEEP        | 28LAKSHADWEEP        | 0                          | 42.83 0.00          | 42.83               |
| 29 ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 29 ARUNACHAL PRADESH | 0                          | 3781.53 71.51       | 3853.04             |
| 30ASSAM              | 30ASSAM              | 52437.35                   | 88746.69 1803.05    | 142987.09           |
| 31MANIPUR            | 31MANIPUR            | 10727.45                   | 0 20.25             | 10747.70            |
| 32MEGHALAYA          | 32MEGHALAYA          | 5187.93                    | 8523.99 68.90       | 13780.82            |
| 33MIZORAM            | 33MIZORAM            | 3072.52                    | 1144.09 64.13       | 4280.74             |
| 34NAGALAND           | 34NAGALAND           | 5424.32                    | 6174.68 72.14       | 11671.14            |
| 35SIKKIM 36TRIPURA   | 35SIKKIM 36TRIPURA   | 1734.47                    | 232.76 64.13        | 2031.36             |
|                      |                      | 7563.5                     | 5162.53 146.25      | 12872.28            |

For the year 2022-23 (upto 10.03.2023), Rs 52.76 crore has been released for toilets and drinking water facilities.

Under revised Scheme for Adolescent Girls, Total funds of Rs 1311.59 lakhs were released in FY 2022-23 to the States of Chhatisgarh and Nagaland.