Guidelines to tackle malnutrition by Sept

Norms to chart out detection mechanism and parameter for malnutrition

The Centre plans to come up with firm guidelines on a scheme to tackle community-based malnutrition, which will include norms on the amount of calories required by a person.
 

Sources in the Ministry for Women and Child Development (WCD) say that the guidelines will be finalised by September.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had in 2013 issued draft guidelines but since then the administrative control of governing the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) scheme has been passed on to the WCD ministry. The Health and Family Welfare Ministry had in 2016 revised its draft guidelines once again