WCD Ministry launches Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh

The Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) and Textiles launched the Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK). The BPKK will be a repository of diverse crops across 128 agro-climatic zones in India for better nutritional outcomes. To make India nutrition secure a five-point action programme has to be implemented:

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1. Ensure calorie rich diet for women, expectant mothers and children
2. Ensure intake of proteins in the form of pulses to eradicate protein hunger in women and children
3. Eradicate hidden hunger due to deficiency of micro nutrients like vitamin A, vitamin B, Iron and Zinc
4. Ensure clean drinking water supply
5. Spreading nutrition literacy in every village particularly in mothers with children less than 100 days’ old