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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | This Year's Budget Is Critical to Ensure a Comprehensive Nutrition Response -Happy Pant

This Year's Budget Is Critical to Ensure a Comprehensive Nutrition Response -Happy Pant

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published Published on Jan 31, 2021   modified Modified on Feb 4, 2021

-TheWire.in

One of the most disturbing effects of the pandemic has been on the nutritional needs of the disadvantaged. The Budget needs to prioritise addressing this issue.

The pandemic led disruptions of nutrition services have exacerbated India’s existing burden of undernutrition. Children did not get the mid-day meals and supplementary nutrition under the anganwadi services scheme they were registered under. Critical health services like immunisation, iron-folic acide and calcium supplementation, treatment of acute malnutrition, antenatal and postnatal check-ups, other reproductive child health checkup were halted due to restricted mobility.

Several surveys have shown that many had not earned any income during the lockdown, and the food intake by vulnerable communities significantly decreased. Quantity and quality of food consumption decreased for about 74% of the surveyed Dalit families and for about 54% of the surveyed Adivasis. Rampant exclusion errors in the targeting of welfare schemes were magnified. Though state governments instituted measures for home delivery, there were many gaps.

This negative impact of the COVID-19 crisis on nutritional indicators is over and above the reversals reported in the recent data of NFHS-5 (2019-20). The survey results covering 22 states and Union Territories present a vivid demonstration of stagnation in key child malnutrition outcomes – stunting, wasting and share of underweight children across several states. Thirteen states and UTs registered a surge in the percentage of stunted children under five years of age as compared to NFHS 4 (2015-16), whereas 12 states reported an increase in wasted children under the age of five, and 16 recorded a rise in underweight children.

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TheWire.in, 31 January, 2021, https://thewire.in/economy/budget-nutrition-anganwadi-mid-day-meal-schemes


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