23) Which of the following are the objectives of ‘National Nutrition Mission’?
- To create awareness relating to malnutrition among pregnant women and lactating mothers.
- To reduce the incidence of anaemia among young children, adolescent girls and women.
- To promote the consumption of millets, coarse cereals and unpolished rice.
- To promote the consumption of poultry eggs.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1, 2 and 3 only
(c) 1, 2 and 4 only
(d) 3 and 4 only
Explanation:
Promotion of Millets, coarse cereals, unpolished rice, eggs are not mentioned.
National Nutrition Mission has two components
- Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Campaign against malnutrition
- Multi-sectoral Nutrition Programme
The key objectives of the programmes under the Mission are :
- To create awareness on malnutrition among pregnant women, lactating mothers and to promote healthy lactating practices. It portraits the importance of balanced nutrition.
- To improve maternal and child under-nutrition in 200 high burdened districts. The main aim is to prevent mal-nutrition prevalent among children below 3 years.
- To reduce and further eradicate theincidence of anaemia among young children, adolescent girls and women.
Features:
- The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the Ministries.
- The proposal consists of
· mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition
· introducing a very robust convergence mechanism
· ICT based Real Time Monitoring system
· incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets
· incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) for using IT based tools
· eliminating registers used by AWWs
· introducing measurement of height of children at the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs)
· Social Audits
· Setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition through various activities, among others