Poshan Smart Village Programme

12 Nov 2021 Poshan Smart Village Programme

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A program called “Poshan Smart Village” will be started to strengthen the nutrition campaign.
It will be a part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to commemorate the 75th year of India’s independence.

This initiative refers to the adoption of 75 villages and convert them into smart villages as per the call of the Prime Minister.
A total of 75 villages will be adopted by All India Integrated Research Project (AICRP) centers and Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute for Agricultural Women (ICAR-CIWA).

To promote nutritional awareness, education and behavior change in rural areas involving women and school children engaged in agricultural activities.
To use traditional knowledge through local method to remove malnutrition.
Implementation of nutrition-sensitive agriculture through domestic farming and nutri-garden.

The National Nutrition Mission was launched by the government on March 8, 2018, on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
The campaign aims to reduce stunting, undernutrition, anemia (in young children, women and adolescent girls) and low birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.
It also includes a target to reduce stunting in children aged 0-6 years from 38.4% to 25% by the year 2022.

Recently the Ministry of Women and Child Development inaugurated POSHAN 2.0 and urged all the aspirational districts to set up a Poshan Vatika (Poshan Udyan) during Poshan Maah (from 1st September, 2021).

Despite decades of investment to combat this malaise, India’s child malnutrition rate is still one of the most risky countries in the world.
Global Hunger Index (2021): It is calculated on the basis of total undernourishment, child stunting, wasting and child mortality rate of the population. India is ranked 101st out of 116 countries.
Child and maternal malnutrition is responsible for 15% of India’s total disease burden.
According to the fifth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) (2019-2021) data for 22 states conducted so far, only 9 states have a reduction in stunted children, 10 states have low birth weight and six underweight. A decline in the number of children with
Research shows that India’s spending on causal interventions for child malnutrition. 1 USD can generate more than three times the global average in public economic returns of USD (34.1 to 38.6).
Studies show that India loses up to 4% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and up to 8% of its productivity due to child malnutrition.

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