Question: Who amongst the following, recently, formulated the National Nutrition Strategy?
(a) Ministry of Consumer Affairs
(b) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
(c) Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
(d) NITI Aayog
Answer- (d)
Related Facts:
- On September 5th, 2017, Leader of the Green Revolution Dr. M.S Swaminathan and Padma Shri Dr. H Sudarshan launched the National Nutrition Strategy, along with Vice Chairman Dr. Rajiv Kumar and Member Dr. Vinod Paul.
- NITI Aayog has drafted the National Nutrition Strategy to address this and to bring nutrition to the centre-stage of the National Development Agenda.
- This Strategy is formulated through an extensive consultative process, lays down a roadmap for effective action, among both implementers and practitioners, in achieving our nutrition objectives.
- The nutrition strategy envisages a framework wherein the four proximate determinants of nutrition – uptake of health services, food, drinking water & sanitation and income & livelihoods – work together to accelerate decline of under nutrition in India.
- Nutrition Strategy Framework envisages clean India and a malnourished free India associated with healthy India.
- The aim of the strategy is ensure that States create customized State/ District Action Plans to address local needs and challenges.
- Globally there is a well recognized rationale of 16:1 for 40 low and middle-income countries, for investing in Nutrition.
- The recently published NFHS-4 results reflect some progress, with a decline in the overall levels of under nutrition in both women and children.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=170549
http://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/Nutrition_Strategy_Bookl