Question : National Nutrition Mission

(a) whether the Expenditure Finance Committee has not agreed in favour of actual monitoring and assessment of children suffering from malnutrition under the National Nutrition Mission (NNM);
(b) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefor;
(c) whether the World Bank has agreed to finance this Mission and if so, the details thereof;
(d) whether some organizations have agreed to provide software for this Mission and if so, the details thereof;
(e) whether the Government also proposes to bring new NNM and if so, the details thereof and salient features/components thereof; and
(f) whether the Government has also fixed any target under the new Mission and if so, the details thereof?

MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(SHRIMATI MANEKA SANJAY GANDHI)

(a) & (b) No, Madam.

(c) & (d) Does not arise at this stage.

(e) & (f) The objective of the new NNM is to ensure that every child, adolescent girl and woman attains optimal nutritional status. The focus is on preventing and reducing under nutrition among the mothers and under-six years’ children. The Mission endeavours to implement these interventions through existing schemes by bringing operational efficiency, improved outcomes through convergence mechanism, ICT enabled Real Time (RTM) Monitoring, nutrition surveillance, making nutrition visible, community monitoring and mobilization, gap filling, periodical reviews with suggested solutions and strengthening field level human resource, etc.

The goal of new National Nutrition Mission (NNM) is to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children (0-6 years), Adolescent Girls and Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner from the time of implementation with fixed targets.
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