New Delhi: In a major policy initiative, a Rs 9,000 crore National Nutrition Mission may be launched by the government this month. A brainchild of the Niti Aayog, highly placed sources said that it could receive the Union Cabinet’s nod this week itself. Under it, the Government plans to conduct real time monitoring of malnourished children with the help of an electronic database of all aanganwadis. This will help in tracking malnourished children and initiate steps to check the infant mortality rate as well as improve parameters like life expectancy of such infants.
The Centre aims to provide mobile phone connectivity to all aanganwadis across the country, which will help in sharing all the data collected with these rural maternity centres and help them help malnourished children. Once identified, aanganwadis will be incentivised to provide better nutritional care to these children.
