Enabling Human Development through Poshan Abhiyaan: A Situation Analysis
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Nutrition, Capability Approach, Malnutrition,, Human development, science teachingAbstract
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to achieve sustainable development as
entailed in SDG 3. With this as the roadmap, the government of India has launched the Poshan Abhiyaan (National
Nutrition Mission) to improve nutritional outcomes for children, pregnant women, lactating mothers and adolescent
girls. Conceptualized as a Jan Andolan or ‘people’s actions’ for promoting inclusive participation, it aims at
reaching every household with the message of nutrition. The author examines the implementation of the program as
an agency and the enhancement of human development thus envisioned through Sen’s Capability Approach
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