POSHAN Abhiyaan: Over 10.11 crore beneficiaries registered, highest comes from UP
Nandini Pandit
11/08/2023
Smriti Zubin Irani, the minister of women and child development, informed the Lok Sabha today that around 10.11 crore beneficiaries had been enrolled under the POSHAN Abhiyaan. The programme was introduced on March 8, 2018, according to the minister, to enhance the nutritional status of children aged 0 to 6 years, adolescent females, pregnant women, and nursing moms.
“Poshan Abhiyan is part of the Integrated Nutrition Support Programme, Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, which includes Anganwadi Services and Scheme for Adolescent Girls,” the written statement reads.
2,11,05,303 beneficiaries have been enrolled from Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar is second on the list with 1,03,82,035 beneficiaries.
Aadhaar verification is required in order to use the mission’s services. Aadhaar has been confirmed for almost 94% of the beneficiaries who have enrolled with the information and communication technology (ICT) application Poshan Tracker.
According to Smriti Irani, community-based events (CBEs) and Jan Andolans in the form of Rashtriya Poshan Maahs and Poshan Pakhwadas have focused heavily on behaviour change communication, or BCC. Almost 3.70 billion community-based events have been held over the past four years.
PM POSHAN Abhiyaan
A total of 46,36,094 beneficiaries are listed on Poshan Tracker in Rajasthan as of July 31, 2023. She responded to a question on how many beneficiaries were registered from Rajasthan by saying that Rs 10,005.28 lakh had been allocated to the state for the purpose of carrying out various activities under the Abhiyaan from 2019–20 to 2023–2024.
| State | Total beneficiaries |
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 15,633 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 28,55,118 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 56,671 |
| Assam | 35,95,187 |
| Bihar | 1,03,82,035 |
| Chhattisgarh | 25,11,279 |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli – Daman & Diu | 33,801 |
| Delhi | 7,33,192 |
| Goa | 72,628 |
| Gujarat | 39,27,405 |
| Haryana | 19,87,706 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,32,741 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 8,09,032 |
| Jharkhand | 36,30,024 |
| Karnataka | 43,47,107 |
| Kerala | 24,24,718 |
| Ladakh | 19,735 |
| Lakshadweep | 6,579 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 74,10,406 |
| Maharashtra | 71,71,793 |
| Manipur | 3,04,927 |
| Meghalaya | 4,50,690 |
| Mizoram | 1,22,360 |
| Nagaland | 65,212 |
| Odisha | 41,01,136 |
| Puducherry | 40,093 |
| Punjab | 11,21,619 |
| Rajasthan | 48,77,364 |
| Sikkim | 35,864 |
| Tamil Nadu | 39,17,175 |
| Telangana | 22,01,186 |
| Tripura | 3,61,715 |
| UT-Chandigarh | 53,364 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 2,11,05,303 |
| Uttarakhand | 8,24,519 |
| West Bengal | 89,45,146 |
| Total | 10,10,50,463 |
The benefits can be accessible using the mother’s Aadhaar card if the child does not have an Aadhaar, the minister stated when outlining the registration process.
She further added, “Anganwadi Services scheme is being digitized by the ministry through the Poshan Tracker App to enable the ministry to identify the beneficiaries as part of the programme as a whole and to ensure uninterrupted supply of nutrition to the children, pregnant women and lactating mothers and adolescents girl beneficiaries, who move within the state or outside the state due to any reason,”
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