Sahi Poshan Desh Roshan
Radio Awaaz Produce Programme & Organize Community events with different experts & specialists viz. Gynecologist, Staff Nurse, Breast feeding Counsellors, SABs ASHA worker, ANM, ICDS officer, CDPO, Dietician/Nutritionists, Anganwadi
issues covered -
Home deliveries
Institutional Deliveries
Caesarian Delivery and myths about breast feeding
Talk about the importance of the connect between mother and new born and advise around that
MAKE PROGRAM ON ASHA –GOOD ASHA
Optimal Breast feeding: First hour; 6 months, two years, myths, hygiene
Complementary Food and Nutrition: Complementary feeding needs commitment/time/resources and effort. Bring women who have children in the three categories (red/yellow and green) Promote positivity.
Anemia : Raise a question, share field experiences, community segment, Look for solutions, Talk to experts, FDG, Studio based Q&A, symptons of Anemia,talk about actual levels and aspirational levels, food that promotes iron and the tablets.
Messages: Anemia is not recognized as a problem.Get an outreach activity: Get people to check their anemia and then use it as a context of discussion/conversation
Growth Monitoring: What is Growth, Involve parents for monitoring, 1000 days is also a focus; emphasise on Mandatory Growth monitoring; talk about micronutrients required for both brain and body nourishment
Food Fortification and Micronutrients
Sanitation and Hygiene
Girl Education and Child Marriage
Radio Awaaz a Community Radio Station taken initiative on sensetive issue “Animiya Mukta Bharat – Sahi Poshan Desh Roshan” and produce and broadcast of 8 numbers of Radio Programmes under Poshan Abhiyan and also share the radio Programme with WCD department district sehore and Department share this programmes to their Angamwadi Workers for mass Awareness generation through Narowcasting.
"Sahi Poshan, Desh Roshan" is a campaign launched by the Indian government to promote good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. The campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of proper nutrition, especially among children, and to encourage the adoption of healthy eating habits.
Targets of Poshan Abhiyaan
- The POSHAN Abhiyaan objective is to make India& a malnutrition-free country by 2022.
- The Abhiyaan targets to decrease stunting in children from 38.4 % to 25% by 2022.
- The Abhiyaan targets to cut down stunting, under-nutrition, anemia annually by 2%, 2% and 3% respectively.
- To reduce low birth weight by 2% annually.
Features of Pradhan Mantri Poshan Abhiyaan
- Coverage:The Poshan Abhiyaan 2021 aims to benefit the children studying in 11.20 lakh schools in the country. In this scheme, mid-day meals have been provided to the children of Balvatika as well as the children studying in classes 1 to 8 in government and government-aided schools in the country.
- Vocal for Local for Atma nirbhar BharatPM Poshan will include Farmer Producer Organization (FPO) and Women Self Help Groups in the execution of the scheme to support vocal for local and to realize the objectives of the Atmanirbhar Bharat initiative.
- Social AuditSocial audits will be done for each school in every district for inspecting the implementation of the scheme.
- Nutritional Garden (Poshan Vatika):It will promote the use of locally-grown nutritional food items from&“school nutrition gardens”for boost the local economic growth and also provide additional micronutrients to the students.
- Supplementary Nutrition:If a state or district having a high prevalence of anemia, then this scheme has the provision to include any supplementary item. A state can include local vegetables or any other nutritional food with the centre’s approval.
- Tithi Bhojan: It is a group participation program in which individuals provide special food to the children on occasions or festivals. The scheme has also incorporated the concept of Tithi Bhojan, in which the students of the private schools will be encouraged to share their meals with the children from the marginalized section of the society at least once a month voluntarily.
- Nutrition Expert:A nutrition expert is to be assigned for each school whose duty is to regularly conduct check-ups such as – Body Mass Index (BMI), weight, hemoglobin levels, etc.
- Poshan Tracker App:An App was launched to strengthen and bring transparency to nutrition delivery services. It provides real-time monitoring and tracking of all Anganwadi canters (AWC), Anganwadi workers (AWW), and beneficiaries.
Importance of Poshan Abhiyaan
- The tagline of the PM Poshan Abhiyaan is Sahi Poshan Desh Roshan, which means that this program is intended to provide sufficient nutrition to infants, pregnant ladies, and lactating mothers.
- Poshan Abhiyaan is a scheme that helps to eliminate the micronutrient and malnutrition problems among the targeted audience.
- It also helps in achieving the targets of sustainable development goals such as zero poverty, no hunger, good health, and well-being, etc.
- The POSHAN Abhiyaan is intended to draw the country’s attention towards the problem of malnutrition and addresses it in a mission mode