Context: Findings of recently released National Family Health Survey -5 (NFHS-5) presents a bleak picture of nutritional achievements of the Poshan Abhiyan, launched three years ago.
Significance of Poshan Abhiyan: aims to improve the nutritional status of children and adolescent girls, as well as pregnant and lactating mothers.
Nutritional status of children and women: findings of NFHS-5
Way forward:
Conclusion: Reversals experienced by a majority of districts on nutrition indicators suggest that India needs to make food security a centrepiece of its overall development agenda.