NATIONAL NUTRITION WEEK

📮DATE : 1/09/2021

     1st September to 7th September

🔸 Theme 2021 : “feeding smart right from start”

✍The month of September is dedicated for celebration of ‘Poshan Maah’ or 'Nutrition Month'

✍Swasthya the portal launched by the government to promote tribal health & nutrition.

✍ ALEKH the e-newsletter of health and nutrition was released by tribal affairs ministry.

✍The government of Himachal Pradesh has launched the Nutritional Immunity Boosting ‘Him Haldi Dudh’ manufactured by MILKFED

✍NITI Aayog Launches ‘Poshan Gyan’, a National Digital Repository on Health and Nutrition

✍Cargill in Collaboration with UNWFP and CRB Launched Nutrition Programme in Jaipur, Rajasthan

✍Odisha Government adds Fish Nutrition to Anganwadi Diet Chat

✍Maharashtra’s Women & Child Welfare Department launched digital platform “Tarang Suposhit  

Maharashtracha” to provide nutritional requirements of mother & children

✍Global Nutrition Report’ is a flagship annual report of : World Health Organisation

✍Jaya Jaitley Committee seen in the news recently, is associated with: Health and Nutrition of Women

✍Article 47 deals with the : Duty of the State to raise the level of nutrition and the standard of living and to improve public health

✍GLOBAL NUTRITION REPORT 2020 : According to the Global Nutrition Report 2020, India is among 88 countries that are likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025.

✍ 35600 crore fund have been Allocated to nutrition-related programmes for FY 2020-21 

✍Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched POSHAN Abhiyan in 2018 from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, with the vision to make India malnutrition free by 2022

🗳Andhra Pradesh ranked 1st in the country for overall implementation of POSHAN Abhiyaan

🗳Tamil Nadu tops in Poshan Abhiyaan’s participants list.

✍8.9% percentage of world population went hungry in 2019 as per UN annual report titled “The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2020”

✍ National Institute of Nutrition

💢 Hyderabad