Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh – Burning Issues

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As part of the Poshan Abhiyaan,
The Ministry of Women and Child Development in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
Launched India’s first Poshan Atlas,
In order to create a repository of diverse crops across 127 agro-climatic zones of the country.

Thus the BPKK will be a repository of diverse crops across agro-climatic zones in India for better nutritional outcomes.
It would be accessible to policy-makers, administrators, experts and communities in order to help meet nutritional outcomes in the country.

Ensure calorie rich diet for women, expectant mothers and children.
Ensure intake of proteins in the form of pulses to eradicate protein hunger in women and children.
Eradicate hidden hunger due to deficiency of micronutrients like vitamin A, vitamin B, Iron and Zinc.
Ensure clean drinking water supply.
Spread ingnutrition literacy in every village particularly in mothers with children less than 100 days’ old.
This five point action programme also aligns with different Sustainable Development Goals such as:-