Explanation:

POSHAN Abhiyaan

• The POSHAN (PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 8, 2018.
• The scheme aims to ensure holistic development and adequate nutrition for pregnant women,mothers and children.
• It is to ensure that malnutrition doesn’t affect children’s cognitive development or physical growth.
• The initiative seeks to reduce the level of stunting, undernutrition and low birth weight by 2% each, and anaemia by 3%.
• It aims to reduce stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022.
• A key idea of the initiative is to incentivise Anganwadi Workers (AWs) for using ICT-based tools,making it easier to implement and monitor the programme.