By The Ministry of women and kid Development has received a 16 per cent increase in its budget allocation this year with a total of Rs 24,435 large integer declared weekday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman additional declared that supplementary nutrition schemes were being unified with the Poshan Abhiyan to launch Mission Poshan 2.0.
In 2020-21, the ministry was allotted a total of Rs 30,007.09 crore, that was revised to Rs 2,008.31 crore.
Out of the allocation for the ministry this year, the best quantity has been allotted to Mission Poshan 2.0 and Saksham Anganwadi theme — Rs 20,105 crore.
Poshan 2.0 currently combines the Integrated kid Development Services (ICDS), Anganwadi services, Poshan Abhiyan, theme For Adolescent women and National Creche theme.
The allocation for social services sector, which has nutrition and social insurance and welfare, has been augmented from Rs 2,411.80 in 2020-21 to Rs three,575.96 crore.
Schemes like Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, One Stop Centres, Swadhar Greh, kid Protection, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, theme for Adolescent women and Ujjawala haven’t been allotted something during this budget.
The budget of the ministry’s autonomous bodies — National Institute of Public Cooperation and kid Development, Central Adoption Resource Agency, National Commission for cover of kid Rights, National Commission for girls and Central financial aid Board — are augmented.
The allow Mission for cover and direction of ladies has been drastically reduced from Rs 726 large integer to Rs forty eight large integer.
“The launch of Mission Poshan 2.0 by merging the supplementary nutrition programme and Poshan Abhiyan could be a nice step to strengthen the country’s public health because the mission intends to boost the biological process content delivery and therefore the outreach… NFHS-5 knowledge shows the importance of nutrition over ever before because the nutrition indicators haven’t fared well,” aforesaid Dr Sujeet Ranjan, administrator, The Coalition for Food and Nutrition Security. “We recognise that deficiency disease could be a complicated condition which will involve multiple factors. Therefore, to cut back multiple kinds of deficiency disease, a lot of nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions ought to be targeted.’’
