There is a need for 'governance of nutrition-specific' and 'nutrition-sensitive' interventions to tackle child undernutrition in India. Examine.

As per recent UNICEF report, India has highest cases of child malnutrition. NFHS-5 reports 32% stunting, 17% wasting and 36% underweight cases. While PM-Jaisalmer, Jamini Suraksha Yojana aim to address these challenges, there is a need for holistic nutrihar approach than piece-meal method. Nutrition-Specific ⊕ Nutrition-Sensitive ⊕ ⊕ bz Children concerns & ensure better hidden hunger ⊕ absorption of nutrition bz Overcome vitamin & ensure that cross deficiency iron ⊕ nutrients are not deficiency etc provided (eg: food fortification be helpful to those suffering from sickle-cell anemia) ⊕ bz Diversify diets beyond cereals to include millets, fruits, vegetable, milk bz Ensure supplementation of vitamin heavy through food fortification (Copenhagen Consensus on fastest & cheapest needs) bz Leverage community rehabilitation programmes (like Birday program in Assam) bz Use conditional cash transfer (Eg: Nanda Scheme in odisha) Thus we need a swamp approach in solving undernutrition in India and need to look at nutrition specific as well as sensitive measures.

bz This means that one-size-fit-all approach is replaced with data-based region specific approach (Eg: Ishan Tracker) bz Ensure targeted measures for most vulnerable sections (Eg: dalits, tribals having higher % of malnutrition cases) bz Diversify diets beyond cereals to include millets, fruits, vegetable, milk bz Ensure supplementation of vitamin heavy through food fortification (Copenhagen Consensus on fastest & cheapest needs) bz leverage community rehabilitation programmes (like Birday program in Assam) bz Use conditional cash transfer (Eg: Nanda Scheme in odisha) Thus we need a swamp approach in solving undernutrition in India and need to look at nutrition specific as well as sensitive measures.

— Shoham Teberiwal · AIR 77