Explanation:

There are a number of schemes directly/indirectly affecting the nutritional status of children (0-6 years age) and pregnant women and lactating mothers. Inspite of these, level of malnutrition and related problems in the country is high. The mission targets to reduce stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia among young children, women  and adolescent girls and reduce low birth weight by at least 2% per annum. Though target to reduce stunting is at least 2% annum, the mission will strive to achieve reduction in stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022. The NNM, as an apex body, will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the Ministries. The proposal consists of mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition and introducing a very robust convergence mechanism, ICT based Real Time Monitoring system. Incentivizing States/UTs for meeting the targets, incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) for using IT based tools, eliminating registers used by AWWs, Social Audits, setting-up Nutrition Resource Centers and involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition through various activities, are some of the other systems.