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Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 — India's Nutrition Mission
India's flagship attack on child and maternal malnutrition runs through the village Anganwadi Centre, and every meal, ration packet and growth measurement it delivers is now logged on one app, the Poshan Tracker.
Last updated 7 August 20266 min read
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Sets out India's flagship nutrition mission in full — who is entitled to which food, how the Poshan Tracker app polices last-mile delivery, and what the 2025 NITI Aayog evaluation and the earlier World Bank survey actually found.
- Mission Poshan 2.0
- Saksham Anganwadi
- Poshan Tracker
- Anganwadi Centre
- supplementary nutrition
- Poshan Abhiyaan
- Women and Child Development
- malnutrition
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