Launched in March, 2018 POSHAN Abhiyaan is a flagship program of the Government of India to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. It directs the attention to address the issue of malnutrition, specially to reduce the level of stunting, under- nutrition, anemia and low birth weight in a mission mode.
The program is implemented through inter- sectoral convergence for better service delivery, use of technology (ICT) for real time growth monitoring and tracking of children and women respectively, intensified health and nutrition services for the first 1000 days of the program and mobilization of people.
All the Anganwadi Teachers in the state have been provided smartphones which they use as a job aid and recording of the information of the beneficiaries on Poshan Tracker.
