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The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the 9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah 2026 at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre, Varanasi, under the theme 'Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari'.
The campaign runs from 9 September to 8 October 2026 and focuses on dietary diversity and adequate protein intake, fresh hot cooked meals at Anganwadi Centres, community ownership through Anganwadi Management Committees and SNP menu boards, nutrition and early stimulation, and ten years of PMMVY.
More than 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres serve over 7.5 crore children, 1.10 crore pregnant and lactating women and nearly 16 lakh adolescent girls.
Two lakh Anganwadi Centres are being upgraded into Saksham Anganwadis, of which about 24,000 have been approved in Uttar Pradesh.
PMMVY has completed ten years, transferring over ₹21,000 crore by Direct Benefit Transfer to more than 4.65 crore mothers.
Reduce stunting, undernutrition, anaemia and low birth weight among children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
Key: Launched 8 March 2018 from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. POSHAN expands to Prime Minister's Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment; it works by convergence with ICDS, the National Health Mission and PMMVY.
Bring nutrition delivery and early childhood care under one restructured umbrella scheme.
Key: Announced in the Union Budget of February 2021; merges Anganwadi Services (ICDS), the Supplementary Nutrition Programme, POSHAN Abhiyaan, the Scheme for Adolescent Girls and the National Creche Scheme. Two lakh Anganwadi Centres are being upgraded into Saksham Anganwadis with better infrastructure and learning environments.
Deliver supplementary nutrition, immunisation, health check-ups, referral services and pre-school education to children under six and to mothers.
Key: Launched in 1975; India's oldest and largest child development programme, with the Anganwadi Centre as its delivery unit offering Take Home Ration and Hot Cooked Meals. It now runs as the Anganwadi Services component of Poshan 2.0.
Provide a conditional maternity benefit that offsets wage loss and improves maternal health and nutrition.
Key: Launched in 2017 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development; ₹5,000 in instalments for the first living child and, from April 2022, an additional ₹6,000 for a second child if that child is a girl, paid through Direct Benefit Transfer.
Cut anaemia prevalence across six beneficiary groups, from young children to adolescents and pregnant women.
Key: Launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the POSHAN Abhiyaan umbrella, on a 6x6x6 strategy — six target groups, six interventions (prophylactic iron-folic acid supplementation, deworming, behaviour-change communication, point-of-care testing with digital haemoglobinometers, mandatory fortified foods, and action on non-nutritional causes) and six institutional mechanisms.
A mobile ICT application rolled out by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on 1 March 2021 under Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0. It digitises the Anganwadi worker's paper registers, records growth measurement and service delivery beneficiary by beneficiary, and allows near real-time national monitoring of nutrition outcomes.
Integrated Child Development Services launched; the Anganwadi Centre becomes the delivery unit for nutrition and pre-school education.
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana launched as a DBT maternity benefit.
POSHAN Abhiyaan launched from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan; Anaemia Mukt Bharat launched the same year on its 6x6x6 strategy.
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 announced, merging ICDS, the Supplementary Nutrition Programme, POSHAN Abhiyaan, the Scheme for Adolescent Girls and the National Creche Scheme; Poshan Tracker rolled out on 1 March 2021.
9th Rashtriya Poshan Maah launched at Varanasi under the theme 'Hamari Anganwadi, Hamari Jimmedari'.
GS Paper 2 > Governance > Welfare Schemes for Vulnerable Sections
General Awareness > Government Schemes
"National Girl Child Day" is celebrated in India on:
Answer: 24 January
Consider the following statements in the context of interventions being undertaken under Anaemia Mukt Bharat Strategy: 1. It provides prophylactic calcium supplementation for pre-school children, adolescents and pregnant women. 2. It runs a campaign for delayed cord clamping at the time of child-birth. 3. It provides for periodic deworming to children and adolescents. 4. It addresses non-nutritional causes of anaemia in endemic pockets with special focus on malaria, hemoglobinopathies and fluorosis. How many of the statements given above are correct?
Answer: Only three
Which of the following are the objectives of 'National Nutrition Mission'? 1. To create awareness relating to malnutrition among pregnant women and lactating mothers. 2. To reduce the incidence of anaemia among young children, adolescent girls and women. 3. To promote the consumption of millets, coarse cereals and unpolished rice. 4. To promote the consumption of poultry eggs. Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Answer: 1 and 2 only
The people's-movement approach of POSHAN Abhiyaan, mobilising communities rather than relying on service delivery alone.
Dry supplementary nutrition given to beneficiaries to consume at home, as distinct from Hot Cooked Meals served at the Anganwadi Centre.
The period from conception to a child's second birthday, when nutrition has the greatest lifelong effect.