Finance Minister focuses on nutrition
Making her budget speech in Parliament on January 1, 2021, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized nutrition and talked of an intensified strategy to improve nutritional outcomes. Mrs Sitharaman told the Lok Sabha: "To strengthen the nutritional content, delivery, outreach, and outcome, we will merge the Supplementary Nutrition Programme and the Poshan Abhiyan and launch the Mission Poshan 2.0. We shall adopt an intensified strategy to improve nutritional outcomes across 112 Aspirational Districts."