Rashtriya Poshan Maah reports 1.37 cr activities so far: Ministry

New Delhi [India], September 7 (ANI): After the launch of the 7th Rashtriya Poshan Maah, so far 1.37 crore activities have been reported from 752 districts of 35 States and UTs, according to the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

The ministry said on Saturday that Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh are among the top contributing states so far.

The 7th ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’ was launched on 31st August 2024 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. It focuses on key themes such as anemia, growth monitoring, complementary feeding, and Poshan Bhi Padhai Bhi, along with technology for better governance.

The campaign also emphasized environmental sustainability through the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ initiative, in which plantation is encouraged across all the operational 13.95 lakh Anganwadi centres.

In terms of key focus as per the ministry, as of Saturday, over 39 lakh activities have been conducted on anemia, over 27 lakh activities on growth monitoring, almost 20 lakh activities on complementary feeding, over 18.5 lakh activities on ‘Poshan Bhi Padhai Bhi’, and 8 lakh activities on environmental sustainability through ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’.

“One of the key focus areas, namely Technology for Better Governance, has encouraged the designated functionaries of WCD to mark more than 10 lakh activities that aim to help in effective implementation and monitoring of nutrition indicators and programmatic areas at large, linked to the ICT application Poshan Tracker,” said the ministry.

It also highlighted that the top contributing ministries to the ongoing ‘Poshan Maah’ have been Ministry of Education (MoE) with 1.38 lakh activities, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoH&FW) with 1.17 lakh activities, Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) with 1.07 lakh activities, Ministry of Ayush with 69 thousand activities, and Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) with 64 lakh activities in support of one or the other theme of ‘Poshan Maah 2024’.