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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Replacing anganwadis with food sachets will only set India?s nutrition schemes back -Dipa Sinha

Replacing anganwadis with food sachets will only set India?s nutrition schemes back -Dipa Sinha

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published Published on Nov 14, 2016   modified Modified on Nov 14, 2016
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The government is likely to announce a new nutrition mission with a bigger role for private companies.

The Government of India is expected to announce a National Nutrition Mission in December this year. Some glimpses of what this mission will include were revealed in a recent news item in the Economic Times. The focus seems to be on centralising production of take home rations given to young children and pregnant or lactating women with a minimal role for anganwadi centres and workers.

All other roles played by the anganwadi centres including growth monitoring, nutrition and health counselling seem to have been ignored as the reports suggest that anganwadi workers are expected to become redundant once the centralised nutrition sachets are made available. The unsaid aim seems to be ensuring a share for the private sector in the huge allocations made for supplementary nutrition. Putting central and state shares together this is around Rs. 20,000 crores per anum.

Almost 70 years after Independence and more than two decades of high growth, almost 40% of children in the country are still malnourished – that is they are stunted or have low height for their age. Successive governments have failed in putting in place a comprehensive and coherent strategy in place address the problem of malnutrition.

Malnutrition is a complex problem with multiple determinants ranging from inadequate food consumption, ineffective health care, poor sanitation and drinking water and inappropriate child care practices underlying which are poverty, insecure livelihoods, unequal gender relations and hopeless public services. One of the main interventions to address malnutrition is the provision of supplementary nutrition through anganwadi centres under the Integrared Child Development Scheme commonly abbreviated as ICDS.

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Scroll.in, 10 November, 2016, http://scroll.in/pulse/821028/replacing-anganwadis-with-food-sachets-will-only-set-indias-nutrition-schemes-back


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