A. Three each short- term and long-term strategies implemented to solve nutritional problems in India-
Short term strategies-
• Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) to cover all vulnerable group.
• fortification of essential foods (salt fortified with iodine).
• production and popularisation of low-cost nutritious foods from indigenous and locally available raw material by involving women in this activity.
• control of micronutrient deficiencies (iron, vitamin A, folic acid and iodine) among vulnerable groups.
Long-term strategies-
• ensuring food security i.e., improving availability of food.
• improving the dietary patterns by ensuring availability of nutritionally rich foods.
• reducing poverty for rural and urban poor through employment generation schemes and public distribution system, implementing land reforms, etc.
B. Two Nutrition programmes operating in our country-
• ICDS: It is an outreach programme for early childhood care and development
• Nutrient Deficiency Control programmes: National Prophylaxis programme for prevention of blindness due to vitamin A deficiency, National Anemia control programme, National Iodine deficiency disorder control programme.
• Food Supplementation: programmes like the Mid-day meal programme,
• Food security programmes: Public Distribution System, Antodaya Anna Yojana, Annapurna Scheme, National Food for Work Programme.
• Self: employment and wage employment schemes.
