A Two-Day Consultation by M/o Women & Child Development on National Nutrition Mission begins in New Delhi Smt Maneka Gandhi asks stakeholders to put in place a comprehensive time-bound action plan on nutrition by 1st November this year

The Ministry of Women and Child Development has fast tracked the formulation of the National Mission to tackle mal-nutrition. This Mission is now the flagship programme of the Ministry and is very high on the national agenda of the government. In order to formulate the detailed contours of the Mission and to examine innovative interventions which can be put into place to tackle the problem of malnutrition, a two-day Workshop on Consultation on National Nutrition Mission in India : Accelerating Essential Nutrition Actions began in New Delhi today.