Lok Sabha Question No. 2680 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-04
Subject: Training for POSHAN Abhiyaan
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Dhal Singh Bisen

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2680

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.08.2023

## TRAINING FOR POSHAN ABHIYAAN

2680    DR. DHAL SINGH BISEN:

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

- (a) the details of funds released under the Rashtriya Poshan Mission particularly to Madhya Pradesh during the last three years;
- (b) the names of the districts identified under the said Mission/Abhiyaan in all the States, State-wise;
- (c) the details of publicity and awareness programmes being run thereunder; and
- (d) whether  any  training  programme  is  being  conducted  to  ensure  smooth functioning of the scheme, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a) An  amount  of  Rs.  3737.95  lakh  has  been  released  to  the  state  of  Madhya Pradesh  during  the  last  three  years  (FY  2020-21  to  FY  2022-23)  under  POSHAN Abhiyaan.
- (b) Poshan Abhiyaan is being implemented in all the districts of the country, in all 36 States/UTs.
- (c) Under  Poshan  2.0,  one  of  the  major  activities  undertaken  is  Community Mobilization and Awareness Advocacy leading to Jan Andolan to educate the people on nutritional aspects. Community Based Events or CBEs have served as a significant strategy in changing nutrition practices. CBEs help to celebrate critical milestones in the life of pregnant women and children below two years of age and to disseminate critical information on inter alia, right time to ensure complementary feeding and appropriate complementary  feeding  with  diet  diversity.  Close  to  3.70  crore  Community  Based Events have been held under the Abhiyaan. Also, through the use of Poshan Tracker, videos are disseminated, wherein the beneficiaries are counselled on nutrition related issues like breastfeeding, complementary feeding, infant and young childcare. Poshan Tracker has embedded videos related to Infant and Young Child care and nutrition for educating the beneficiaries.

IEC material in the form of videos, pamphlets, flyers etc in regional languages have been developed around the critical themes. Jan Andolan is carried out through the annual Rashtriya  Poshan Maah celebrated in  the  month of  September and Poshan Pakhwada celebrated  in  March  at  scale  across  India.  Over  the  years,  themes  have included overall nutrition, hygiene, water and sanitation, anaemia prevention, importance of breast-feeding, growth monitoring, role of Poshan Panchayats, AYUSH for Well-being, Yoga for Health, importance of Poshan Vatikas for cultivation of local vegetables, medicinal plants/herbs and fruits at the community level, Poshan ke Paanch Sutra , promoting tribal foods etc. More than 60 crore Jan Andolan activities have been conducted across the country.

(d) To strengthen Anganwadi services and to achieve intended outcomes, capacity building  of  Anganwadi  workers  are  a  priority  area  under  Saksham  Anganwadi  and Poshan 2.0. Anganwadi workers are made aware about Anganwadi Services Scheme and its objectives, requirements of beneficiaries under the scheme and the services mandated for delivery to them. They are made aware about preparation of training/ learning material, use of assessment cards and involvement of parents in the ECCE programme. They are trained on supplementary nutrition guidelines, nutrition norms, food safety norms and practices, new born care and early assessment of child hood illnesses, ante-natal and post-natal practices, Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices and  use  of growth monitoring devices. Training is  always  imparted  based  on developments in the Anganwadi Services Scheme and in the area of women and child development. Poshan Tracker application has training modules on key topics such as appropriate  IYCF  practices,  care  of  weak  newborn  baby  preventing  illness  to  avert malnutrition, prevention of anemia etc

Poshan Bhi Padhai Bhi (PBPB) is a path breaking ECCE program to help India develop the worlds largest,  universal,  high-quality  pre-school  network  at  Anganwadi Centers,  in  alignment  with  the  new  National  Education  Policy  (NEP)  2020.   The implementation  of  PBPB  includes  conducting  Capacity  Building  trainings  for  ICDS functionaries.  The  objectives  of  the  training  program  include  (i)  promoting  early stimulation for the first 1000 days and ECCE for children 3-6 years of age, (ii) developing ECCE understanding of Anganwadi Workers, (iii) emphasizing developmental domains (socio-emotional-ethical, physical and motor, cognitive, etc., and the development of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), and (iv). reinforcing nutrition knowledge of Anganwadi Workers.

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