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08/09/22 05:10 AM IST

More than half the funds for POSHAN Abhiyaan unutilised: NITI Aayog report

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  • Less than half the funds set aside for the POSHAN Abhiyaan have been utilised by India’s states, according to the fourth progress report released by the NITI Aayog recently. 
Key Findings 
  • Less than half the funds set aside for the POSHAN Abhiyaan have been utilized by India’s states.
  • States and Union territories (UTs) with poor distribution of mobile phones and growth monitoring devices emerged as those with low fund utilization.
  • Only three states had used more than 50 per cent of their POSHAN Abhiyaan funds between 2017-2018 and 2018-2019.
  • This improved marginally to 12 between 2017-2019 and FY 2019-2020.
  • On a scale of 0-100, only Punjab scored less than 50 among the large states.
  • Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, and Mizoram were the poor performers among the small states while no UT scored less than 50.
  • Nagaland (87 per cent), Meghalaya (78 per cent), Sikkim (71 per cent), Mizoram (67 per cent) and Lakshadweep (65 per cent) had utilised the maximum proportion of funds by the end of 2019-2020.
  • The amount of funds being utilised improved across most states and UTs — 30 of 35.
  • It decreased in Telangana, Mizoram, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Puducherry.
Poshan Abhiyaan
  • The programme seeks to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
  • Launched in 2018 with specific targets to be achieved by 2022.
  • Aim: Reduce Stunting and wasting by 2% a year (total 6% until 2022) among children.
  • Anemia by 3% a year (total 9%) among children, adolescent girls and pregnant women and lactating mothers.
  • Target: To bring down stunting among children in the age group 0-6 years from 38.4% to 25% by 2022.
  • The month of September every year is celebrated as the Rashtriya Poshan Mah or the National Nutrition Month across the country.
Source- DTE 

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