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Pradeep Kumar

18/03/21 11:20 AM IST

Poshan Pakhwada

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Ministry of Women and Child Development is celebrating Poshan Pakhwada from 16th to 31st March, 2021

POSHAN Abhiyaan
  • PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment was launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister on 8th March, 2018.
  • It aims to reduce malnutrition from the Country in a phased manner, through the life cycle concept, by adopting a synergized and result oriented approach.
  • The goals of POSHAN Abhiyaan (NNM) are to achieve improvement in the nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner with fixed targets.
  • It also aims to bring down stunting of children in the age group of 0-6 years from 38.4% to 25% by the year 2022.
Source: PIB

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