Mission Poshan 2.0: MoWCD’s measures to improve nutritional outcomes
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, Poshan Tracker, and programme convergence for nutrition outcomes
- Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 brings together Anganwadi services, Poshan Abhiyaan, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls under a Centrally Sponsored umbrella implemented by States and Union Territories.
- Poshan Tracker is an ICT-based application for monitoring and tracking Anganwadi Centre activities, Anganwadi Worker activities, and beneficiaries on defined nutrition indicators, including dynamic identification of stunting, wasting, and under-weight among children under 5 years.
- Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 provides Supplementary Nutrition aligned to nutrition norms referenced from Schedule-II of the National Food Security Act, 2013, and provides Take-Home Ration for severely acute malnourished children.
- MoWCD links Anganwadi nutrition delivery with RMNCAH+N interventions under the National Health Mission, including Anemia Mukt Bharat (7X7X7), Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres, Mothers' Absolute Affection, lactation management centres, National Deworming Day albendazole administration, and VHSNDs.
The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) consolidated nutrition-linked Anganwadi initiatives under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 (Mission Poshan 2.0). MoWCD launched Poshan Tracker, an ICT-based application for monitoring and tracking Anganwadi Centre services, Anganwadi Worker activities, and beneficiary nutrition indicators on defined measures, including dynamic identification of stunting, wasting, and under-weight among children under 5 years.
Background and earlier position
Nutrition delivery through the Anganwadi ecosystem previously operated alongside multiple components, including Anganwadi services, Poshan Abhiyaan, and the Scheme for Adolescent Girls (covering 14–18 years in Aspirational Districts and the North-Eastern region). Health-sector nutrition interventions under the National Health Mission continued through a life-cycle approach targeting children under 5 years, pregnant women, lactating mothers, and adolescents.
UPSC can examine how programme convergence under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 combines Anganwadi delivery with health-sector actions, and how Poshan Tracker supports indicator-based monitoring across States and Union Territories for children under 5 and other nutritionally vulnerable groups.
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