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Which of the following statement (s) is/ are 'National Council' under National Nutrition Mission?

It has been setup under the NITI Aayog and will include ministers from all relevant ministeries
It will have a representation from five states on rotation basis

Select the correct answer using the codes given below

1 Only

2 Only

Neither 1 nor 2

Both 1 and 2

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Explanation:

Fourth option is correct.

This is a model of cooperative federalism as it involves states and also all the relevant ministeries of the Union

The goals of NNM are to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner during the next three years beginning 2017-18.

The National Nutrition Mission (NNM) has been set up with a three year budget of Rs.9046.17 crore commencing from 2017-18. The NNM is a comprehensive approach towards raising nutrition level in the country on a war footing. It will comprise mapping of various Schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition, including 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, introducing measurement of height of children at the Anganwadi Centres (AWCs), Social Audits, setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres, involving masses through Jan Andolan for their participation on nutrition through various activities, among others.