Lok Sabha Question No. 3614 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-03-21
Subject: Beneficiaries under Poshan Scheme
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Imran Masood

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3614 TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.03.2025

## BENEFICIARIES UNDER POSHAN SCHEME

3614.   SHRI IMRAN MASOOD:

Will the Minister of Women and Child Development be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of beneficiaries under the Poshan 2.0 scheme, State-wise;
- (b) the details of the budgetary outlay and expenditure incurred under the Poshan 2.0 scheme during the last three years; and
- (c) the  details  of  budgetary  outlay  in  Saharanpur  district,  Uttar  Pradesh  under Poshan 2.0 scheme during the last three years?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SAVITRI THAKUR)

(a) to (c) Under the 15th Finance Commission, various components like Anganwadi services,  Poshan  Abhiyaan  and  Scheme  for  Adolescent  girls  (of  14-18  years  in Aspirational  Districts  and  North-Eastern  region)  have  been  subsumed  under  the umbrella  Mission  Saksham  Anganwadi  and  Poshan  2.0  (Mission  Poshan  2.0)  to address the challenge of malnutrition.

The State wise number of beneficiaries under Mission Poshan 2.0 is at Annexure-I.

The detail of budgetary outlay and expenditure incurred under Poshan 2.0 at national level and for Uttar Pradesh is at Annexure-II .

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## ANNEXURE REFERRED IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA QUESTION NO. 3614 FOR 21.03.2025 REGARDING 'BENEFICIARIES UNDER POSHAN SCHEME' BY SHRI IMRAN MASOOD

The State wise details of beneficiaries registered on Poshan Tracker as on 15 March 2025 are as follows:

| S. No.   | State                              | Total Beneficiaries   |
|----------|------------------------------------|-----------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh                     | 30,73,616             |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh                  | 1,04,559              |
| 3        | Assam                              | 33,94,236             |
| 4        | Bihar                              | 1,07,49,377           |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh                       | 26,42,695             |
| 6        | Goa                                | 57,740                |
| 7        | Gujarat                            | 35,36,559             |
| 8        | Haryana                            | 19,77,681             |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh                   | 5,59,690              |
| 10       | Jharkhand                          | 33,19,836             |
| 11       | Karnataka                          | 44,18,235             |
| 12       | Kerala                             | 20,55,783             |
| 13       | Madhya Pradesh                     | 75,59,414             |
| 14       | Maharashtra                        | 66,58,294             |
| 15       | Manipur                            | 3,24,249              |
| 16       | Meghalaya                          | 4,09,624              |
| 17       | Mizoram                            | 1,33,002              |
| 18       | Nagaland                           | 1,26,421              |
| 19       | Odisha                             | 41,77,377             |
| 20       | Punjab                             | 16,63,989             |
| 21       | Rajasthan                          | 42,82,752             |
| 22       | Sikkim                             | 39,341                |
| 23       | Tamil Nadu                         | 42,67,535             |
| 24       | Telangana                          | 21,75,679             |
| 25       | Tripura                            | 3,50,232              |
| 26       | Uttar Pradesh                      | 2,21,26,026           |
| 27       | Uttarakhand                        | 8,42,010              |
| 28       | West Bengal                        | 86,01,998             |
| 29       | Andaman & Nicobar Islands          | 12,771                |
| 30       | Dadra & Nagar Haveli - Daman & Diu | 37,121                |
| 31       | Delhi                              | 6,51,706              |
| 32       | J&K                                | 9,17,713              |
| 33       | Ladakh                             | 19,146                |
| 34       | Lakshadweep                        | 4,716                 |
| 35       | Puducherry                         | 37,004                |
| 36       | UT-Chandigarh                      | 43,352                |
|          | Total                              | 10,13,51,479          |

Annexure-II ANNEXURE  REFERRED  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (b  and  c)  OF  LOK  SABHA QUESTION  NO.  3614  FOR  21.03.2025  REGARDING  'BENEFICIARIES  UNDER POSHAN SCHEME' BY SHRI IMRAN MASOOD The detail of funds released and utilized at national level and for Uttar Pradesh is as follows:

- a.  The detail of budgetary outlay and expenditure incurred under Poshan 2.0 at national level in last three years is as follows
- b.  Under Mission Poshan 2.0, funds are released to States and not to districts. Total amount released to Uttar Pradesh in last three years is Rs. 7798.11 crore.

| Amount in crore   |           |           |
|-------------------|-----------|-----------|
| 2021-22           | 19,999.55 | 18,208.55 |
| 2022-23           | 20,263.07 | 19810.87  |
|                   |           | 21809.65  |
| 2023-24           | 22,022.99 |           |

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