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| Official Inauguration of Workshop by the Panelists |
Ensuring food security for its
citizen is one of the important tasks of any Govt. India has rigorously worked
to improve its productivity and became self-reliant in terms of food production.
This help India to meet the requirement for different food items by their
population. Several revolutionary measures were undertaken by the govt over a
period to increase the productivity of Agriculture and Allied sector which
includes Green revolution (Food Grain), white revolution (Milk), Yellow
revolution (oil) etc. Steps were also undertaken to strengthen the procurement
and distribution of food materials within the country. Although the access to
basic food items (Energy reach items: Rice & wheat) increased to great
extent still consumption of balanced diet to fulfil the nutrition requirement
of the body is lack in majority of the population. This apart, wrong practices
during harvest, processing, storage, and cooking practices also reduce the
nutritious values of the food items. This widens the nutritional gap of the
population. Consumption of poor nutrition not only affect the physical growth
but also the mental growth which in long run affect the productivity of the population.
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| Participants participated in Workshop |
Govt.of India with the support of
the state govts implement different development programs. To meet the food
requirements programs like: PDS, PM POSHAN (MDM) and ICDS implemented under the
food Safety Net scheme. Similarly, the ministry of Health & Family welfare
focuses on identification nutritional deficiencies and supplementation initiatives.
This apart Health & Nutrition Education is also undertaken by both the
W&CD and Health & Family Welfare ministry to bring changes in the
nutritional status of the people. Still a large population of our country
suffers from nutrition deficiency disorders. India is the home of 35.5%Stunted,
19.5% wasted and 33.8% underweight children. Near about 57.0% of the female
(15-49) and 25.0% male (15-49) are anaemic.
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| Open Discussion Session |
In order to address the
nutritional deficiencies (especially micronutrient) both dietary and
non-dietary measures can be undertaken which includes dietary diversity, direct
Supplementation, Nutrition & Health education and fortification. Among all
these strategies fortification is one of the scientifically proven and
cost-effective strategy which can facilitate address multiple micronutrient
deficiency issues at a time. Keeping eyes on the above Govt. of India has
approved distribution of fortified rice in a phased manner through Public
Distribution System (PDS), Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), Pradhan
Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman-PM POSHAN (erstwhile Mid-Day Meal Scheme) and Other
Welfare Schemes (OWS).
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| Module Handover to Millers by WFP |
Food Corporation of India (Uttarakhand
Chapter) in collaboration with related Govt. departments, Rice Miller, development
organizations and Academic institutions organize one multisectoral convergence workshop
to give pace to the implementation of the program in the state. The prime focus
of this workshop was to share technical inputs on production of FRK, Fortified Rice,
policies & procedures related to this as well as discussion on Myths as
well as Misconceptions related to fortified rice in the field prior to scale up
of the program to all the districts (Phase-III implementation).
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