Ministry of Women & Child Development | Tackling the Problem of Malnutrition Among Children

PIB News Update:Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti ZubinIrani has informed that Government accords high priority to the issue of malnutrition and is implementing several schemes/programmes of different Ministries/Departments through States/UTs to address various aspects related to nutrition. The Ministry of Women and Child Developmentis implementing several schemes and programmes like Anganwadi Services, Scheme for Adolescent Girls and Pradhan MantriMatruVandanaYojna under the Umbrella Integrated Child Development Services Scheme as direct targeted interventions to address the problem of malnutrition in the country. Government has also launched POSHAN Abhiyaan, which aims to prevent and reduce prevalence of stunting, underweight and anaemia among children (0-6 years) and reduction in prevalence of low birth weight in the country in a time bound manner.

In order to bridge the gap in the intake of nutrients as recommended under the Recommended Dietary Allowances prescribed by the Indian Council of Medical Research and the Average Dietary Intake among the population based on the National Surveys, supplementary nutrition is provided under the Anganwadi Services of the Umbrella ICDS Scheme to children under 6 years of age as per the nutritional norms prescribed in Schedule II of the National Food Security Act, 2013.

The details of financial assistance provided by Government during three years, State-wise including Punjab, Haryana and West Bengal are:

1. Annexure-I – Anganwadi Services,
2. Annexure-II – POSHAN Abhiyaan,
3. Annexure-III – Scheme for Adolescent Girls
4. Annexure -IV – Pradhan MantriMatruVandanaYojana.

 

 

Annexure-I

 

State/UT-wise Fund released under the Anganwadi Services Scheme during last 3 years

                                                                                                                                                                (Rs. in lakhs)

Sl. No.	State/UTs	Fund released during 2016-17		Fund released during 2017-18		Fund released during 2018-19
		SNP	GENERAL	SNP	GENERAL	SNP	GENERAL
1	ANDHRA PRADESH	31467.53	14590.85	31596.87	24629.79	37353.55	31895.05
2	BIHAR	52520.17	32823.24	53741.97	35851.96	76987.83	35974.64
3	CHHATTISGARH	22461.93	16921.47	25724.9	28345.16	24279.95	28735.52
4	GOA	591.45	458.83	1011.2	585.64	859.5	778.06
5	GUJARAT	36162.61	31788.45	38496.97	21581.54	32051.56	29206.4
6	HARYANA	7131.04	12893.84	3945.75	13601.08	7305.22	13276.2
7	JHARKHAND	28723.1	13325.75	25347.42	14879.45	29083.25	18797.43
8	KARNATAKA	33914.94	16235.33	56009.24	32177.98	43588.97	43506.22
9	KERALA	8305.96	24850.34	10976.6	20186.77	10785.38	17058
10	MADHYA PRADESH	55779.33	43124.79	66775.88	46683.69	64088.78	49633.10
11	MAHARASHTRA	32053.19	71393.73	41445.78	58469.85	106535.22	55705.39
12	ODISHA	25519.58	38085.8	47316.24	34543.96	43450.56	33841.79
13	PUNJAB	3124.57	11246.52	5282.25	13998.21	3744.1	13411.95
14	RAJASTHAN	33045.65	25486.48	34931.86	30339.08	34950.74	29085.81
15	TAMIL NADU	26017.9	15731.91	33186.7	14394.25	37271.35	26488.7
16	TELANGANA	17418.86	9654.88	18130.74	18905.07	22045.61	21257.53
17	UTTAR PRADESH	160784.24	95627.23	129353.52	80279.47	104579.08	84554.34
18	WEST BENGAL	30462.46	27805.02	67697.94	27805.04	68046.87	53839.34
19	DELHI	7551.09	6560.79	4051.41	6560.53	3474.65	5457.19
20	PUDUCHERRY	1702.02	590.87	851.02	590.88	0	452.11
21	HIMACHAL PRADESH	4662.06	18694.25	5795.63	14898.51	6976.21	24112.44
22	JAMMU & KASHMIR	4035.18	21105.03	4035.17	14383.93	2128.5	34361.46
23	UTTARAKHAND	4649.44	12043.25	15212.13	11666.46	13612.57	18465.2
24	A & N ISLANDS	262.68	934.06	284.57	974.13	369.94	883.04
25	CHANDIGARH	190.49	571.7	592.09	471.88	769.72	634.14
26	D&NAGAR HAVELI	203.8	365.81	129.89	182.9	168.86	354.23
27	DAMAN & DIU	174.12	133.84	130.83	139.28	170.08	97.13
28	LAKSHADWEEP	68.32	78.63	85.35	39.46	100.26	245.2
29	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	4052.72	7199.13	4035.02	8218.4	4411.4	7375.84
30	ASSAM	17921.03	44425.65	31554.71	37115.73	30597.01	49561.1
31	MANIPUR	500	7412.65	5244.2	10284.52	7134.08	8892.39
32	MEGHALAYA	11184.72	5370.85	12238.89	5466.89	12364.04	4996.77
33	MIZORAM	2156.92	2172.8	1539.37	3416.45	1843.36	2493.46
34	NAGALAND	10611.05	4469.91	7000.08	6816.95	8231.2	3721
35	SIKKIM	644.34	768.68	481.21	1426.33	450.66	1500.366
36	TRIPURA	4010.56	7671.45	6456.59	6381.42	7781.78	9406.72
Total		680065.05	642613.81	790689.99	646292.64	847591.84	760055.26

 

Annexure-II

 

 

State/UT-wise details of funds released under POSHAN Abhiyaan

Sl. No.	State/UT	Funds released (Rs. in lakhs)
		2017 – 18 + Unspent Balance of ISSNIP	2018-19
1	Andhra Pradesh	2572.41	8604.68
2	Bihar	7063.44	15001.67
3	Chhattisgarh	1668.12	9629.51
4	Delhi	945.95	2206.88
5	Goa	238.07	197.78
6	Gujarat	3036.66	11228.03
7	Haryana	400.97	5992.46
8	Jharkhand	2429.59	5110.45
9	Karnataka	3351.05	9870.89
10	Kerala	1273.37	6491.91
11	Madhya Pradesh	4067.2	15894.17
12	Maharashtra	2572.31	20989.28
13	Odisha	4600.46	10571.65
14	Puducherry	39.24	393.7
15	Punjab	819.51	6090.33
16	Rajasthan	4216.26	9680.99
17	Tamil Nadu	1340.51	12210.93
18	Telangana	1736.94	8595.7
19	Uttar Pradesh	8440.6	29582.87
20	West Bengal	5545.27	19294.11
21	Arunachal Pradesh	52.93	2663.35
22	Assam	2298.27	15492.36
23	Himachal Pradesh	1557.26	4153.15
24	Jammu & Kashmir	388.59	8343.52
25	Manipur	340.46	3865.37
26	Meghalaya	462.98	1713.27
27	Mizoram	119.38	957.65
28	Nagaland	163.74	1251.97
29	Sikkim	98.59	328.47
30	Tripura	277.91	3695.72
31	Uttarakhand	1866.25	4301.57
	Total	63984.29	254404.39

 

Sl. No.	UT without Legislature	Funds released (Rs. in lakhs)
		2017 – 18	2018-19
1	Andaman & Nicobar	100.22	416.89
2	Chandigarh	158.88	306.82
3	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	108.83	129.32
4	Daman & Diu	42.06	197.66
5	Lakshadweep	60	138.9
	TOTAL	469.99	1189.59

• POSHAN Abhiyaanapproved w.e.f. 18.12.2017

 

Annexure-III

 

 

State/UT-wise Fund released under Scheme for Adolescent Girls during last 3 years

 (Rs. in lakh)

S. No.	States/UTs	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19
1	Andhra Pradesh	762.99	2259.52	1011.98
2	Arunachal Pradesh	126.25	87.96	0
3	Assam	1356.94	341.92	0
4	Bihar	2696.83	4003.74	25.54
5	Chhattisgarh	1389.69	2792.61	724.75
6	Goa	131.5	302.77	0.4
7	Gujarat	1443.18	2690.09	5092.44
8	Haryana	104.74	589.97	37.41
9	Himachal Pradesh	720.45	1129.42	0
10	Jammu & Kashmir	194.63	255.91	560.39
11	Jharkhand	145.57	1495.55	0
12	Karnataka	740.73	2466.93	923.76
13	Kerala	1057.73	692.91	289.74
14	Madhya Pradesh	5302.02	8641.18	5442.4
15	Maharashtra	5334.42	3995.68	3536.78
16	Manipur	49.65	170.28	0
17	Meghalaya	919.65	528.83	12.55
18	Mizoram	91.78	123.95	69.32
19	Nagaland	206.31	193.14	214.3
20	Odisha	2867.25	2442.6	866.77
21	Punjab	0	40.6	26.3
22	Rajasthan	0	39.38	0
23	Sikkim	32.54	15.42	0
24	Tamil Nadu	2655.26	3196.22	0
25	Telangana	572.39	81.4	107.49
26	Tripura	334.81	674.38	19.16
27	Uttar Pradesh	10932.99	4486.13	1000.35
28	Uttaranchal	43.02	3.3	0
29	West Bengal	40.41	282.47	101.85
30	A & N Islands	107.05	51.35	3.18
31	Chandigarh	12.11	12.68	2.33
32	Daman & Diu	14.14	14.14	4.53
33	D & NH	16.44	16.44	4.94
34	Delhi	276.66	490.19	320.48
35	Lakshadweep	2.2	11.65	3.11
36	Pondicherry	17.72	8.81	1.63
	Total	47700.06	44629.53	20403.88

* The scheme has been implemented for out-of-school adolescent girls in the age group of 11-14 years w.e.f.  01.12.2017 and extended to all the districts w.e.f.  01.04.2018.

 

 

Annexure-IV

 

State/UT-wise details of funds sanctioned/released during last two years and the current under Pradhan MantriMatruVandanaYojana (PMMVY)

(Rs. In Lakh)

Sl. No.	State/UT	2017-18	2018-19
1	A & N Islands	163.08	41.13
2	Andhra Pradesh	7022.36	14101.75
3	Arunachal Pradesh	912.83	36
4	Assam	10448.26	817
5	Bihar	17351.38	1253
6	Chandigarh	290.41	248.08
7	Chhattisgarh	4382.58	2025.85
8	Dadra & Nagar Haveli	102.62	75.85
9	Daman & Diu (UT)	61.56	28.98
10	Goa	168.85	107.26
11	Gujarat	10186.87	5958.97
12	Haryana	4324.3	3674.84
13	Himachal Pradesh	1821.64	1793.84
14	Jammu & Kashmir	3137.84	828.42
15	Jharkhand	5622.7	1453.37
16	Karnataka	10248.81	6361.72
17	Kerala	5536.64	3514.27
18	Lakshadweep	27.82	4.44
19	Madhya Pradesh	12320.53	18581.47
20	Maharashtra	12821.1	11795.62
21	Manipur	1474.07	75
22	Meghalaya	1110.83	102
23	Mizoram	710.78	294.7
24	Nagaland	1035.06	52
25	NCT Of Delhi	2008.9	795.75
26	Orissa	7143.33	383
27	Puducherry	331.68	63.53
28	Punjab	4648.73	1141.42
29	Rajasthan	11486.97	9605.43
30	Sikkim	354.33	21
31	Tamil Nadu	12087.85	658
32	Telangana	7196.4	385
33	Tripura	1845.49	96
34	Uttar Pradesh	33616.64	14216.71
35	Uttarakhand	2610.99	1425.66
36	West Bengal	10245.03	2938.72
	Total	204859.26	104955.77

• The PMMVY scheme (Pan India) has been implemented w.e.f. 01.01.2017.