Nourish to Flourish

REDUCING MALNUTRITIONTEAM DETAILSCOLLEGE :Keshav Memorial Institute of TechnologyTEAM CO-ORDINATOR : DivyaMembers : Bhavya,Karthik,Suresh,Ankita

The Government of India spends 10,867 Crores annually on the mid day meal scheme and

promises 450 calories for primary per meal which covers 10.4 crore children.

The programme is claiming to reach 80.6 lakh expectant, pregnant and lactating mothers along

with 3.93 crore children (under 6 years of age). 1,241,749

operational Aanganwadi centres have been set up.

The Government has passed the Food security bill promising 85 Crores for this project and

covering 70% of rural and 50% of urban population.

When the Government spends so many crores on nutritioning the

citizens why is 50% of the population under malnutrition???

Reasons for the failure

The Government has focused on providing with the calories required but has ignored the nutrients

required to provide those calories.

The schemes working are just focusing on the short term goals which results in the repetition of the

malnutrition cycle.

Emergency services incase of malnutrition are not given, which results in the deterioration of the child’s

health which in turn leads to death.

The Government has ignored the children who do not attend the Government schools , which means

children who do not attend Government schools do not benefit to the schemes provided.

The beggars who have no ration card due to no residential address are one of the major sectors of

malnourished in India.

IDENTIFY REHABILITATE MAINTAIN

Identification of the most emergency cases of malnutrition in a specified area.

Admission of the identified cases to the nearest rehabilitation center.

Maintenance by providing income through jobs as farmers as the best way to nourish is to provide them

with the money required.

Education on the nutrition needs.

STRATEGY TO ERADICATE MALNUTRITION

Identification Recovered

Rehabiliate .Refurbish. Recover

Rehabilitation centres will be setup at the district level with residential facility and people are kept admited until fully nourished.

Wards(stay of malnourished until they

become fully nourished)

Representatives from various

NGO’S Student interns Nursing staff

Introduction of Therapeutic food

Anganwadiworker

Experienced doctors and NGO doctors

Nursing staff Student interns

Reason for choosing them

• Have a vast knowledge about efficient treatment.

• Reaching out to the most needy of the nation which they would have dreamt of while becoming a doctor.

Have skills needed to keep a child under perfect observation.

Employment opportunity to the nurses in government sector.

A good opportunity to have a experience in the real world and a bullet point on their resume.

NumberAround 3000 experienced doctors.

Around 35,000 nurses and other nursing staff.

Around 1500 student interns

Skills required Sense of responsibility for the

nation Active and enthusiastic

Lively and friendly Patient and hard working.

Good relationship with nurses and children

Good Leadership qualities

A center of experienced doctors , nursing staff and interns is setup.

Construction cost

Manpower cost

Equipment cost

Construction of the rehabilitation center

Construction of the therapeutic industry

Nursing staff (30 lakhs pa)

Experts (10 lakhs pa)

Industry workers (8 lakhs pa)

Drivers for transport of Therapeutic food (2 lakhs pa)

Basic rehabilitation center equipment cost (50 lakhs)

Therapeutic food equipment cost(50 lakhs)

1.5 cr

5o lakhs pa

1 cr

The rehabilitation center will require 3 cr investment by the government and cooperate bodies.

The funding will be made by the public and private sector in the ratio 1:1.For every new hospital coming up in urban cities their should be a 50% funding for the rural rehabilitation center.

STRATAGY TO IMPROVE AGRICULTURENationalization of agriculture

COLLECTION OF AGRICULTURAL UNUSED LAND

• The agricultural unused land should be taken on lease or bought by the government.

APPOINTMENT OF FARM

DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

• A farm development officer should be appointed to the government farms in a particular village.

JOBS FOR FARMERS IN

FARMS

• The economically backward farmers should be given jobs in the farms for which they get paid without the consideration of profits or losses of the farm.

In India about 60.53% of the land is agricultural land according to 2010 World bank report . Though the irrigated land is only 34.3% of the agricultural land.

This land should be taken up by the government and farms should be developed on these lands.The profits of these farms will be taken by the government leading to the increase of the GDP of the

nation.

Farm development officer

Research team

Farm reporter

Soil testing Seeds testing Fertilizer testing Climatic research

Farmers working on monthly wages

NATIONALISATION OF FARMING

Investment for collection of land

Research equipment cost

Man power cost

Farm development officer (2.5 lakhs * 50 pa)

Research team (12*5 lakhs pa)

Farm reporter (1 lakh pa *100)

Farmers (2 cr)

4 cr

35 lakhs

4 cr

An investment of 8.5 cr from the Government.

The land unused land taken up by the Government will be taken up by the norms of land acquisition bill 2013.

Merits over existing model

Plan provides with the curing of malnutrition to the core level.

Due to employment in agricultural sector the reverse process of malnutrition is eradicated.

Use of therapeutic food not just eradicates hunger but also stops malnutrition which is not achieved with the recent plans.

Involvement of private sector is a major challenge.

Investment by the Government is big which may be a challenge.

Acquisition of the unused land will be a crucial problem.

The tight functioning of the plan will be a problem in rural India.

Bringing awareness among doctors to serve in rural areas may be a challenge.

Challenges

References

http://mdm.nic.in/

http://www.indianpediatrics.net/aug2010/702.pdf

http://www.theworld.org/2012/09/india-battles-malnutrition-with-local-product/

http://www.powershow.com/view/80c7c-MzVkO/Overview_of_CommunityBased_Management_of_Acute_Malnutrition_CMAM_powerpoint_ppt_presentation

www.fao.org

www.censusindia.gov.org

www.indianexpress.com

www.nlm.nih.gov

www.medicalnewstoday.com