Welcome To Karnataka Nutrition Mission

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About Us

Karnataka is the first State in the country to have announced a Comprehensive Nutrition Mission, following the inter-generational inter-sectoral approach. Realizing the gravity of situation, Honorable Chief Minister of Karnataka in his Budget speech on March 5, 2010 has announced, “The number of children suffering from malnutrition is very significant in our State. Special efforts are required to be made for overcoming this problem. The Government proposes to start a Comprehensive Nutrition Mission. A provision of Rs 5 Crore will be made for this for a pilot project.”
The pilot pojects were under taken in Gubbi Block in Tumkur District and Shikaripura Block in Shimoga District. The pilot projects were successful in reducing malnutrition amoung the target groups.

Organogram

Sl.No.	Name	Designation
1	Smt. Veena S. Rao, IAS (Retd.)	Advisor, Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission
2	Shri Shivamurthy G.N., IAS	Mission Director, Karnataka Rural Livelihood Promotion Society
3	Shri B. Ganesh Moolya	Technical Assistant to Advisor, KCNM
4	Shri Ramesh Halbhavi	Consultant -HR & Administration
5	Shri Ramesh M. Raichur	Consultant -Project Implementation
6	Shri Nagaraja D.C.	Financial Assistant
7	Shri Sateesh	Office Assistant
8	Shri Chethan S.	Computer Operator

Karnataka Comprehensive Nutrition Mission- Strategy Paper

Malnutrition is a major public health emergency in India today, with about 50% of the population suffering from it in some form - protein-calorie deficit and/or micro-nutrient malnutrition. It is the underlying cause of at least 50% of deaths of under 5 children in the country. Even if it does not lead to death, malnutrition including micronutrient deficiencies, often leads to permanent damage including impairment of physical growth and mental development, and to added health care costs to the State. India’s Nutritional Indicators are a cause of concern and progress in their improvement has been extremely slow, as shown in the Table at Annexure I. The Nutrition Scenario in Karnataka compared to other Southern States is also a cause for concern. For example, the IMR in Karnataka according to NFHS III is 43 as compared to 30.4 and15.3 in Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively. The under 5 mortality rate in Karnataka (54.7) is also much higher than Tamil Nadu (35.5) and Kerala (16.3). The percentage of under-three age stunted children in the State (42.4) according to NFHS III is not only higher than the national percentage (38.4) but also much higher than the other three Southern States the percentages there being Andhra Pradesh (36.4), Kerala (26.5) and Tamil Nadu (31.1).

Objectives

The Karnataka Nutrition Mission (KNM) will aim to eradicate the problem of malnutrition in the State in the shortest possible time by introducing innovative strategy shifts that include the following:

i) Adopting the inter-generational, life cycle approach by addressing the nutritional needs of infants, children, adolescent girls and pregnant and nursing mothers.

ii) Bridging the calorie-protein micronutrient deficit among the inter-generational target groups by providing appropriate energy dense fortified supplementation for consumption.

iii) Accelerating, integrating and tightly monitoring multi-sectoral ongoing programmes that have impact on malnutrition, such as Immunization and Vit A Supplementation, Anaemia Control, Water and Sanitation, etc., and achieving convergence between the ongoing programmes so that they operate simultaneously, and filling programmatic gaps.

iv) Increasing programme coverage by demand creation by involvement of the community, NGOs, SHGs and VPs.

v) Launching a sustained general public awareness campaign, through the multi-media and interpersonal communication mode to reach the general public, especially at the grass-roots, regarding proper nutritional practices within existing family budgets and proper child and maternal care and create demand for government programmes.

vi) Make available low cost energy foods for the general population through Public Private Partnerships.

Latest News

2^nd Orientation Workshop on Module on Food/Nutrition Security and Public Policy held on 8^th January, 2018

Module on Food/Nutrition Security and Public Policy conceptualized by KCNM taught in Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, academic year 2017-18.
It will be taught in the next semester in Akkamahadevi Womens University, Vijayapura and Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Nutrition Indicators – Progress from December, 2015 (Baseline) till September, 2017 – Cohort Group

Project Beneficiaries’ Pictures – Before and After

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