NITI Aayog and World Food Program launched a report titled ‘Take Home Ration-Good Practices across the State/Union Territories’. The report presents a set of good and innovative practices adopted in the implementation of the Take Home Ration value chain by the States and UTs.

Key Points

• Government of India provides Take Home Ration under the Supplementary Nutrition component of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) to fill the gap in nutrition among children as well as pregnant and lactating women (PLW).
• Compilation of Innovations: The document on good practices compiles and collates innovations in Take Home Ration(THR) programmes in various States and Union Territories.
• Generating catalogue of good practices: Aspects related to production, formulation, distribution, labelling, packaging, monitoring, quality assurance, and social and behavioural change have been reviewed to generate a catalogue of good practices.
• Adopting good practices: This document will help State Governments/Union Territories to adopt good practices in their THR programmes.”