NUTRITION PROGRAMS

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• End poverty in all its forms everywhereEnd poverty in all its forms
everywhere
 PM POSHAN
• The CCEA cleared the PM POSHAN (POshan SHAkti Nirman) Scheme for providing one
hot cooked meal in Government and Government-aided schools from 2021-22 to 2025-26,
earlier known as ‘National Programme for Mid-Day Meal in Schools’ popularly known as Mid-
Day Meal Scheme. This is a Centrally-Sponsored Scheme which covers all school children
studying in Classes I-VIII in Government, Government-Aided Schools.
• The scheme covers about 11.80 crore children studying in 11.20 lakh schools across the
country. During 2020-21, Government of India invested more than ₹ 24,400 crore in the
scheme, including cost of about ₹ 11,500 crore on food grains.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by the Hon’ble Prime Minister
has approved the continuation of the national scheme of PM POSHAN in Schools for the five-
year period 2021-22 to 2025-26 with the financial outlay of ₹ 54061.73 crores from the
Central Government and ₹ 31733.17 crore from State Governments & UT administrations.
Central Government will also bear additional cost of about ₹ 45000 crore on food grains.
Therefore, the total scheme budget will amount to ₹ 130794.90 crore.
• Highlights of the decision that would improve the effiHighlights of the decision that would
improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the scheme are as below:
• The scheme is proposed to be extended to students studying in pre-primary or Balvatikas in
Government and Government-aided primary schools in addition to all the 11.80 crore children
 PM POSHAN
• The concept of Tithi Bhojan will be encouraged extensively. Tithi Bhojan is a community
participation programme in which people provide special food to children on special
occasions/festivals. hool Nutrition Gardens in schools to give children first-hand experience
with nature and gardening. The harvest of these gardens is used in the scheme providing
additional micro nutrients. School Nutrition Gardens have already been developed in more
than 3 lakh schools.
• Social Audit of the scheme is made mandatory in all the districts.
• Special provision is made for providing supplementary nutrition items to children in
aspirational districts and districts with high prevalence of Anemia.
• Cooking competitions will be encouraged at all levels right from village level to national level
to promote ethnic cuisine and innovative menus based on locally available ingredients and
vegetables.
• Vocal for Local for Atmanirbhar Bharat: Involvement of Farmers Producer Organizations (FPO)
and Women Self Help Groups in implementation of the scheme will be encouraged. Use of
locally grown traditional food items for a fillip to local economic growth will be encouraged.
• Field visits for progress monitoring and inspections will be facilitated for students of eminent
Universities / Institutions and also trainee teachers of Regional Institutes of Educations (RIE)
and District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET).
 MID DAY MEAL
• Mid Day Meal in schools has had a long history in India. In 1925, a Mid
Day Meal Programme was introduced for disadvantaged children in
Madras Municipal Corporation. By the mid 1980s three States viz. Gujarat,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the UT of Pondicherry had universalized a
cooked Mid Day Meal Programme with their own resources for children
studying at the primary stage by 1990-91 the number of States
implementing the mid day meal programme with their own resources on a
universal or a large scale had increased to twelve states.
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With a view to enhancing enrollment, retention and attendance and
simultaneously improving nutritional levels among children, the National
Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) was
launched as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme on 15th August 1995, initially
in 2408 blocks in the country. By the year 1997-98 the NP-NSPE was
introduced in all blocks of the country. It was further extended in 2002 to
cover not only children in classes I -V of Government, Government aided
and local body schools, but also children studying in EGS and AIE centres.
Central Assistance under the scheme consisted of free supply of food grains
@ 100 grams per child per school day, and subsidy for transportation of
food grains up to a maximum of Rs 50 per quintal.
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In September 2004 the scheme was revised to provide cooked mid day
meal with 300 calories and 8-12 grams of protein to all children studying in
classes I – V in Government and aided schools and EGS/ AIE centres. In
addition to free supply of food grains, the revised scheme provided Central
Assistance for (a) Cooking cost @ Re 1 per child per school day, (b)
Transport subsidy was raised from the earlier maximum of Rs 50 per quintal
to Rs. 100 per quintal for special category states, and Rs 75 per quintal for
other states, (c) Management, monitoring and evaluation costs @ 2% of the
cost of foodgrains, transport subsidy and cooking assistance, (d) Provision
of mid day meal during summer vacation in drought affected areas.
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In July 2006 the scheme was further revised to provide assistance for cooking cost at the rate
of (a) Rs 1.80 per child/school day for States in the North Eastern Region, provided the NER
States contribute Rs 0.20 per child/school day, and (b) Rs 1.50 per child/ school day for other
States and UTs, provided that these States and UTs contribute Rs 0.50 per child/school day.

In October 2007, the scheme has been further revised to cover children in upper primary
(classes VI to VIII) initially in 3479 Educationally Backwards Blocks (EBBs). Around 1.7 crore
upper primary children were included by this expansion of the scheme. From 2008-09 i.e w.e.f
1st April, 2008, the programme covers all children studying in Government, Local Body and
Government-aided primary and upper primary schools and the EGS/AIE centres including
Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under SSA of all areas across the country. The calorific
value of a mid-day meal at upper primary stage has been fixed at a minimum of 700 calories
and 20 grams of protein by providing 150 grams of food grains (rice/wheat) per child/school
day.
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From the year 2009 onwards the following changes have been made to
improve the implementation of the scheme:-
• Food norms have been revised to ensure balanced and nutritious diet to
children of upper primary group by increasing the quantity of pulses from 25
to 30 grams, vegetables from 65 to 75 grams and by decreasing the quantity
of oil and fat from 10 grams to 7.5 grams.
• Cooking cost (excluding the labour and administrative charges) has been
revised from Rs.1.68 to to Rs. 2.50 for primary and from Rs. 2.20 to Rs. 3.75
for upper primary children from 1.12.2009 to facilitate serving meal to eligible
children in prescribed quantity and of good quality .The cooking cost for
primary is Rs. 2.69 per child per day and Rs. 4.03 for upper primary children
from [Link] cooking cost will be revised prior approval of competent
authority by 7.5% every financial year from 1.4.2011.
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The honorarium for cooks and helpers was paid from the labour and other administrative
charges of Rs.0.40 per child per day provided under the cooking cost. In many cases the
honorarium was so little that it became very difficult to engage manpower for cooking the
meal. A Separate component for Payment of honorarium @ Rs.1000 per month per
cook- cum-helper was introduced from 1.12.2009. Honorarium at the above prescribed
rate is being paid to cook-cum-helper. However, in some of the states the honorarium to
cook-cum-helpers are being paid more than Rs.1000/- through their state fund. Following
norms for engagement of cook-cum-helper have been made:

One cook- cum-helper for schools up to 25 students.

Two cooks-cum-helpers for schools with 26 to 100 students.
One additional cook-cum-helper for every addition of upto 100 students.
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More than 25.25 lakhs cook-cum-helper are engaged by the State/UTs
during 2016-17 for preparation and serving of Mid Day Meal to Children in
Elementary Classes

A common unit cost of construction of kitchen shed @ Rs.60,000 for the

whole country was impractical and also inadequate .Now the cost of
construction of kitchen-cum-store will be determined on the basis of plinth
area norm and State Schedule of Rates. The Department of School
Education and Literacy vide letter No.1-1/2009-Desk(MDM) dated
31.12.2009 had prescribed 20 [Link]. plinth area for schools having upto
100 children. For every additional upto 100 children additional 4 [Link] plinth
area will be added. States/UTs have the flexibility to modify the Slab of 100
children depending upon the local condition.
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Due to difficult geographical terrain of the Special category States the
transportation cost @ Rs.1.25 per quintal was not adequate to meet the
actual cost of transportation of foodgrains from the FCI godowns to schools
in these States. On the request of the North Eastern States the
transportation assistance in the 11 Special Category States (Northern
Eastern States, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand)
have been made at par with the Public Distribution System (PDS) rates
prevalent in these States with effect from 1.12.2009

The existing system of payment of cost of foodgrains to FCI from the

Government of India is prone to delays and risk. Decentralization of payment
of cost of foodgrains to the FCI at the district level from 1.4.2010 allowed
officers at State and National levels to focus on detailed monitoring of the
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Revision/modifications of Centrally Sponsored National Programme for Mid-

Day Meal in Schools (NP-MDMS) approved by Competent Authority vide
Letter [Link].1-4/2018-Desk(MDM) Dt.28-02-2019.

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WEEKLY IRON FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION(WIFS)
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched the Weekly
Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFS) Programme to meet
the challenge of high prevalence and incidence of anaemia
amongst adolescent girls and boys.
WIFS is evidence based programmatic response to the prevailing
anaemia situation amongst adolescent girls and boys through
supervised weekly ingestion of IFA supplementation and biannual
helminthic control.
The long term goal is to break the intergenerational cycle of
anaemia, the short term benefits is of a nutritionally improved
human capital. The programme, implemented across the country
both in rural and urban areas.
 WEEKLY IRON FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION(WIFS)
• Salient features of WIFS:
• i. Objective of Weekly Iron Folic acid Supplementation (WIFS) To reduce the prevalence and severity of
anaemia in adolescent population (10-19 years).
• ii. Target groups
• School going adolescent girls and boys in 6th to 12th class enrolled in government/government
aided/municipal schools.
• Out of school adolescent girls.
• iii. Intervention
• Administration of supervised Weekly Iron-folic Acid Supplements of 100mg elemental iron and 500ug
Folic acid using a fixed day approach.
• Screening of target groups for moderate/severe anaemia and referring these cases to an appropriate
health facility.
• Biannual de-worming (Albendazole 400mg), six months apart, for control of helminthic infestation.
• Information and counselling for improving dietary intake and for taking actions for prevention of
intestinal worm infestation.
WEEKLY IRON FOLIC ACID SUPPLEMENTATION(WIFS)
• iv Convergence Convergence with key stakeholder ministries like the Ministry of Women and Child
Development and Ministry of Human Resource Development is an essential part of implantation plan
of the WIFS programme. Key convergent areas include: joint programme planning, capacity building of
nodal service providers including Medical Officers, Anganwadi Worker (AWW) Staff Nurses, School
teachers, monitoring and a comprehensive communication component.

• v. Current Status: The programme has been rolled out in all States/UTs. The programme covers 11.2
crore beneficiaries including 8.4 crore in-school and 2.8 crore out of school beneficiaries.

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 NATIONAL IODINE DEFICIECNY DISORDERS CONTROL
PROGRAMME (NIDDCP)
• NIDDCP formerly known as National Goitre Programme
• Iodine is an essential micro nutrient. It is required at 100-150 micrograms daily for normal human growth
and development. The disorders caused due to deficiency of nutritional iodine in the food/diet are called
iodine deficiency disorders (IDDs).
• Iodine Deficiency Disorders are a worldwide major public health problem. These affect a large segment of
populations in all continents of our planet and have been with us from generation. As per information
available, more than 1.5 billion people all over the world are at risk of IDD.

• The important objectives and components of National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Iodine
Deficiency Disorders Control Programme (NIDDCP) are as follows:-
• Surveys to assess the magnitude of the Iodine Deficiency Disorders.
• Supply of iodated salt in place of common salt.
• Resurvey after every 5 years to assess the extent of Iodine Deficiency Disorders and the impact of
lodated salt.
• Laboratory monitoring of iodated salt and urinary iodine excretion.
• Health education & Publicity.