The National Nutritional Policy adopted in 1993 aims to improve nutritional status in India through a comprehensive multi-sectoral approach. The policy's general objective is to improve nutritional status, while specific objectives include promoting favorable practices, reducing deficiencies and excess, assuring treatment for malnutrition, and providing support for people with HIV/AIDS. It involves both direct interventions like expanding nutrition programs and indirect interventions like ensuring food security, public distribution systems, and improving health, education, and women's status. The policy is monitored by various government groups and linked to goals of reducing poverty, improving education, lowering mortality, and combating disease.

1. National Nutritional Policy
ASTHA K. PATEL

2. • Early 1993 India adopted the National
Nutritional policy. (NNP)
• The policy in India is under the guidance of
the department of women and child
development.

3. • It is comprehensive policy covering all the
areas and aspects that affect the nutrition of
the people.
• It also provide linkage between the nutritional
status of the population and the development
and well being of the nation.

4. General Objective
• To improve the Nutritional status of the
people.

5. Specific objectives
• Promote practices favorable to the
improvement of nutritional status.
• Reduce the prevalence of d’se linked to
nutritional deficiencies & excess.

6. • Assure adequate treatment of Malnutrition
• Provide nutritional care & support for people
living with HIV/AIDS

7. • It have two intervention.
Direct Indirect

8. Direct Intervention
• Universalize the ICDS scheme by year 2000, by
extending it to the children in the age group of
0-6 years.
• Reduce the incidence of severe and moderate
malnutrition in children by half by year 2000.

9. • Nutrition and health education of mothers to
be a key intervention to initiate the
appropriate behavioral changes to manage
the nutritional needs of their children.
• Improving nutritional status of adolescent girls
through iron & folic acid supplementation.

10. • Fortification of essential food with adequate
nutrients.
• Popularization of low cost nutritious foods.
• Controlling micronutrient deficiencies.

11. • Reducing anemia.
• Distribution of iodized salt should cover all
areas of the country.

12. Indirect intervention
• FOOD SECURITY
• Ensuring per capita availability of 215 kg of
food grains per person per year by producing
230 million tons of food grains per year by
2000 AD
• Improvement of dietary pattern through
production & demonstration.

13. • Public distribution
• Improving purchasing power
• Health & Family welfare
• Land reforms

14. • Policies to improve the income of rural &
urban poor people.
• Knowledge of basic health & nutrition
• Nutrition surveillance
• Improvement of the status of women

15. • Education & literacy
• Minimum wage administration
• Equal remuneration

16. Monitoring of NNP
• The NNP identifies a series of actions for
several ministries and departments of the
governments and non-governmental
organizations.
• It has also documented that several special
working groups be constituted in relation to
nutrition, agriculture, rural development ,
health education, food & women & policies be
analyzed & incorporated.

17. • The ministry of HR development reviews the
implementation of nutrition intervention
measures.

18. Strength of NNP
• Identified that …………..
• nutrition is key to country’s development
• Malnutrition has to be tackled at various
levels through a multisectoral approach.
• Series of action in different sectors like food
production, distribution, education,
empowerment of women & nutrition
surveillance
• Both direct & Indirect interventions were
identified.

19. Link of NNP with MDG (Millennium
developmental Goals)
Goal
-2
Goal-
1
Goal-
3
Goal-
4
Goal-
5
Goal-
5

20. Goal-1 Reduce Poverty
• The prevalence rate of PEM in children under
five years of age is reduced from 45% to 30%
for stunting.
• 22% to 15% for underweight
• 4% to 2% for wasting.

21. Goal-2 Ensure Primary Education
• The prevalence rate of Anemia is reduced
from 56% to 37% in children and 33% to 22%
in women.
• Iodine deficiency disorders are eliminated
from 26% to less than 5% of total goiter.

22. Goal-3 reduce infant Mortality
• Increase the proportion of exclusively breast
feeding for the first 6 months.
• Reduce vitamin A deficiency from 25% to 5%
in children below five years.

23. Goal-4 Reduce Maternal mortality
• Reduce Anemia in pregnant women

24. Goal-5 combat HIV/AIDS & other
disease
• Nutritional support is provided to PLWA.
• Nutrition related chronic disease are
prevented.