Programs
Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) – ‘Sabla’
Launched: 2011
Objectives:
- Enable the adoloscent girls for self-development and empowerment.
- Improve their nutrition and health status.
- Promote awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) and family and child care.
National Rural Health Mission
Launched: 2005
Objectives:
- Reduction in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR)
- Universal access to integrated comprehensive public health services
- Child health, water, sanitation and hygiene
Rajmata Jijau Mother-Child Health & Nutrition Mission
Launched: 2005
Objectives:
- The aim of the Mission is to reduce child malnutrition in Maharashtra by focusing on the first 1000 days from conception, i.e. the period of -9 to 24 months.
- It aims at improving convergence and coordination between Public Health Department, Govt. of Maharastra and ICDS Commissionerate.
Mid-Day Meal Programme
Launched: 1995
Objectives:
- Improving the nutritional status of children in classes I VIII in Government Local Body and Government aided schools
- Providing nutritional support to children of primary stage in drought-affected areas.
National Nutrition Policy (NNP)
Launched: 1993
Objectives:
- To prevent and control malnutrition
- To accelerate national development through raising the standard of living .
- To improve the nutritional status of the people, especially disadvantaged groups, including mothers, adolescent girls and children
National Iodine Deficiency Disorders Control Programme (NIDDCP)
Launched: 1992
Objectives:
- To prevent, control and eliminate these disorders
- To provide assistance to the States for Setting up IDD Cell
- IDD monitoring laboratories for ensuring quality control of iodated salt
Kishori Shakti Yojana
Launched: 1991
Objectives:
- To improve the nutritional, health and development status of adolescent girls, promote awareness of health, hygiene, nutrition and family care,
- Link them to opportunities for learning life skills, going back to school, help them gain a better understanding of their social environment and take initiatives to become productive members of the society
Wheat Based Supplementary Nutrition Programmes
Launched: 1986
Objectives:
- The programme aims to enlarge the scope of existing nutrition programme by covering additional beneficiaries i.e. pre-school children and nursing and expectant mothers through wheat-based supplementary nutrition.
Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Noon Meal Prgramme
Launched: 1982
Objectives:
- To provide adequate nutrition to economically disadvantaged children.
- To combat malnutrition among the children and to increase their literacy rate.
- To act as a potent incentive for increasing the enrollment and reducing dropouts from schools.
The Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Project
Launched: 1980
Objectives:
- To increase the proportion of children classified as "nutritionally normal" by 50% in new and 35% in TINP-II areas.
- To reduce the infant mortality to 55% per 1000 live births.
- To 50% reduction in incidence of low birth weight.