POSHAN Abhiyaan is a people's movement to improve nutritional outcomes for children, adolescents, pregnant women and lactating mothers. Learn about its goals, targets, objectives, coverage, features and implementation through this document. Learn about Poshan Abhiyan, a flagship initiative of the Ministry of Women and Child Development to address nutrition needs of vulnerable groups. Find out its objectives, pillars, achievements, and challenges with examples and PYQs. POSHAN Abhiyaan aims to achieve improvement in key nutrition parameters for both children and women. The Jan Andolan and community mobilisation efforts are an essential component for affective implementation of the POSHAN Abhiyaan . POSHAN Abhiyaan (erstwhile National Nutrition Mission) was launched in March 2018 to achieve improvement in nutritional status of Children from 0-6 years, Adolescent Girls, Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner and to achieve reduction in stunting and wasting in children (0-6 years) as well as reduction in anemia in women, children and adolescent girls. The Abhiyaan has been rolled out in all the 36 States/UTs including the state of Tamil Nadu and Odisha. The key ...
