Poshan Abhiyaan

Meghna Paul , Avani Kapur
(2020)

The Poshan Abhiyaan earlier known as the National Nutrition Mission is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship scheme that aims to holistically address the prevalence of malnutrition in India through the use of technology, convergence, behavioural change, training, and capacity building.

This brief uses government data to report on the following:

■ Trends in GoI allocations, releases and expenditures;

■ Trends in expenditure of selected individual components of Poshan Abhiyaan;

■ Trends in participation by gender and activities conducted under the Mission.

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