Lok Sabha Question No. 1667 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-02-11
Subject: POSHAN Abhiyaan
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Agatha K. Sangma, Mimi Chakraborty

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1667 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.02.2022

## 'POSHAN ABHIYAAN'

- 1667    KUMARI AGATHA K. SANGMA; MS. MIMI CHAKRABORTY

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

- (a)      the budgetary allocation and expenditure on the POSHAN Abhiyaan from 200910 to 2021-22;
- (b) the number of children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lacting mothers who have availed benefits under the POSHAN Abhiyaan from 2018 to December 2021;
- (c) whether 16 states reported an increase in underweight children and 12 reported severely  wasted  children  according  to  the  National  Family  Health  Survey-5 phase 1 report and if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  Mission  Poshan  2.0  targeted  only  112  inspirational  districts  while malnutrition is a pan-India issue;
- (e) whether there is 18.5 percent reduction in the budget for Mission Poshan 2.0 in 2021-22 compared to allocation in 2020-21 for erstwhile schemes merged into it and if so, the reasons therefor; and
- (f) the  detailed  plan/steps  along  with  the  timeline  and  the  manner  in  which  the Government would achieve the targets set under the Abhiyaan?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) The budgetary allocation (RE) under the scheme from FY 2017-18 to FY 202021 is Rs. 11,600.00 crores. From 2021-22, the scheme is part of Saksham Anganwadi and  Poshan  2.0.    Under  POSHAN  Abhiyaan,  total  Central  funds  amounting  to  Rs. 5256.97 crores have been released since 2017-18  and States/UTs have utilized Rs. 3572.18 crores.
- (b) As  on  31 st December  2021,  the  number  of  beneficiaries  under  POSHAN Abhiyaan are as follows:
- (c) The  States/UT  wise  prevalence  of  Wasting  and  Underweight  among  children under 5 years as per NFHS 4 (2015-16) and NFHS 5 (2019-21) survey is at Annexure

| Beneficiary Category               | No. of Beneficiaries   |
|------------------------------------|------------------------|
| Children (0-6 years)               | 7,75,66,662            |
| Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers | 1,27,95,327            |
| Adolescent Girls                   | 1,19,76,322            |

I . All districts of the country including 112 Aspirational Districts are covered under

- (d) POSHAN Abhiyaan.
- (e) As per the Revised Budgetary Allocation (RE) for Mission Poshan  2.0 (comprising  POSHAN  Abhiyaan,  Anganwadi  Services  and  Scheme  for  Adolescent Girls), there is no decrease in the Budgetary Allocation (RE) for Mission Poshan 2.0 in 2021-22 as compared to allocation in 2020-21.
- (f) Mission  Poshan  2.0,  an  integrated  nutrition  support  programme  seeks  to strengthen nutritional content, delivery, outreach and outcomes with focus on developing  practices  that  nurture  health,  wellness  and  immunity  to  disease  and malnutrition. Steps have been taken to improve nutritional quality, strengthen delivery and leverage technology to improve governance under Poshan Tracker, a robust ICT platform, to improve governance with regard to real time monitoring of provisioning of supplementary nutrition for prompt supervisions and management  of services. Government  has  advised  States/UTs  to  ensure  that  the  quality  of  supplementary nutrition  conforms  to  prescribed  standards  laid  down  under  the  Food  Safety  and Standards  Act,  2006  and  regulations  made  thereunder.  States/UTs  have  also  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 centers  to  meet  dietary  diversity  gap  leveraging  traditional  knowledge  in  nutritional practices  has  also  been  taken  up.  Further,  Streamlined  Guidelines  were  issued  on 13.01.2021  for  transparency  and  accountability  in  delivery  of  supplementary  nutrition and to track nutritional outcomes.

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Annexure I

## States/UT wise prevalence of Wasting and Underweight among children under 5 years as per NFHS survey

|                                | S. No. Name                    | Wasting (%)      | Wasting (%)      | Underweight (%)   | Underweight (%)   |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|                                | S. No. Name                    | NHFS 4 (2015-16) | NHFS 5 (2019-21) | NHFS 4 (2015-16)  | NHFS 5 (2019-21)  |
| INDIA                          | INDIA                          | 21               | 19.3             | 35.8              | 32.1              |
| 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands    | 1 Andaman & Nicobar Islands    | 18.9             | 16               | 21.6              | 23.7              |
| 2 Andhra Pradesh               | 2 Andhra Pradesh               | 17.2             | 16.1             | 31.9              | 29.6              |
| 3 Arunachal Pradesh            | 3 Arunachal Pradesh            | 17.3             | 13.1             | 19.4              | 15.4              |
| Assam                          | Assam                          | 17               | 21.7             | 29.8              | 32.8              |
| 5 Bihar                        | 5 Bihar                        | 20.8             | 22.9             | 43.9              | 41                |
| Chandigarh                     | Chandigarh                     | 10.9             | 8.4              | 24.5              | 20.6              |
| Chhattisgarh                   | Chhattisgarh                   | 23.1             | 18.9             | 37.7              | 31.3              |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman | 26.7             | 21.6             | 35.8              | 38.7              |
| 9 Delhi                        | 9 Delhi                        | 15.9             | 11.2             | 27                | 21.8              |
| 10 Goa                         | 10 Goa                         | 21.9             | 19.1             | 23.8              | 24                |
| 11 Gujarat                     | 11 Gujarat                     | 26.4             | 25.1             | 39.3              | 39.7              |
| 12 Haryana                     | 12 Haryana                     | 21.2             | 11.5             | 29.4              | 21.5              |
| 13 Himachal Pradesh            | 13 Himachal Pradesh            | 13.7             | 17.4             | 21.2              | 25.5              |
| 14 Jammu & Kashmir             | 14 Jammu & Kashmir             | 12.1             | 19               | 16.6              | 21                |
| 15 Jharkhand                   | 15 Jharkhand                   | 29               | 22.4             | 47.8              | 39.4              |
| 16 Karnataka                   | 16 Karnataka                   | 26.1             | 19.5             | 35.2              | 32.9              |
| 17 Kerala                      | 17 Kerala                      | 15.7             | 15.8             | 16.1              | 19.7              |
| 18 Lakshadweep                 | 18 Lakshadweep                 | 13.7             | 17.4             | 23.6              | 25.8              |
| 19 Ladakh                      | 19 Ladakh                      | 9.3              | 17.5             | 18.7              | 20.4              |
| 20 Madhya Pradesh              | 20 Madhya Pradesh              | 25.8             | 19               | 42.8              | 33                |
| 21 Maharashtra                 | 21 Maharashtra                 | 25.6             | 25.6             | 36                | 36.1              |
| 22 Manipur                     | 22 Manipur                     | 6.8              | 9.9              | 13.8              | 13.3              |
| 23 Meghalaya                   | 23 Meghalaya                   | 15.3             | 12.1             | 28.9              | 26.6              |
| 24 Mizoram                     | 24 Mizoram                     | 6.1              | 9.8              | 12                | 12.7              |
| 25 Nagaland                    | 25 Nagaland                    | 11.3             | 19.1             | 16.7              | 26.9              |
| 26 Orissa                      | 26 Orissa                      | 20.4             | 18.1             | 34.4              | 29.7              |
| 27 Puducherry                  | 27 Puducherry                  | 23.6             | 12.4             | 22                | 15.3              |
| 28 Punjab                      | 28 Punjab                      | 15.6             | 10.6             | 21.6              | 16.9              |
| 29 Rajasthan                   | 29 Rajasthan                   | 23               | 16.8             | 36.7              | 27.6              |
| 30 Sikkim                      | 30 Sikkim                      | 14.2             | 13.7             | 14.2              | 13.1              |
| 31 Tamil Nadu                  | 31 Tamil Nadu                  | 19.7             | 14.6             | 23.8              | 22                |
| 32 Telangana                   | 32 Telangana                   | 18.1             | 21.7             | 28.4              | 31.8              |
| 33 Tripura                     | 33 Tripura                     | 16.8             | 18.2             | 24.1              | 25.6              |
| 34 Uttar Pradesh               | 34 Uttar Pradesh               | 17.9             | 17.3             | 39.5              | 32.1              |
| 35 Uttarakhand                 | 35 Uttarakhand                 | 19.5             | 13.2             | 26.6              | 21                |
| 36 West Bengal                 | 36 West Bengal                 | 20.3             | 20.3             | 31.6              | 32.2              |