Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 approves upgrade of two lakh Anganwadi Centres as Saksham Anganwadis
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0: approval to upgrade 2 lakh Anganwadi Centres as Saksham Anganwadis for nutrition and ECCE
- Mission Poshan 2.0 is described as a centrally sponsored umbrella mission that subsumes Anganwadi services, Poshan Abhiyaan, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls, implemented by States and Union Territories.
- Mission Poshan 2.0 approved upgrading two lakh Anganwadi Centres with infrastructure for nutrition and ECCE, including Poshan Vatika, ECCE materials, and BaLA paintings.
- The Mission states that supplementary nutrition follows nutrition norms in Schedule-II of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and that those norms were revised in January 2023.
- The Ministry states that Poshan Tracker supports near real time entry of data and tracking of activities at Anganwadi Centres, by Anganwadi Workers, and for beneficiaries on defined indicators.
What happened: upgrade of Anganwadi Centres as Saksham Anganwadis
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 (Mission Poshan 2.0) approved the upgrade of two lakh Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) as Saksham Anganwadis. The stated purpose of the upgraded AWCs is delivery of improved nutrition and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) activities for beneficiaries covered under the Mission.
Background and earlier position: convergence under Mission Poshan 2.0
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 integrates multiple child and adolescent nutrition-linked interventions and uses infrastructure upgrades, revised supplementary nutrition norms, and ICT-based monitoring. UPSC questions can probe how convergence works in a Centrally Sponsored Mission, how supplementary nutrition is normed under the National Food Security Act, 2013, and how community mobilization and malnutrition protocols link prevention to management of severely acute malnutrition.
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