Across five National Family Health Surveys since 1992-93, child stunting in India fell from 52% to 35.5% and underweight fell from 53.4% to 32.1% by 2019-21. W…
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme launched in 1975, built around village-level Anganwadi centres offering supplementary nutrition, growth monitorin…
India's first National Family Health Survey (1992-93) recorded stunting at 52%, underweight at 53.4% and wasting at 17.5% among children under five — the baseline every…
NFHS-2 (1998-99) recorded stunting at 45.5%, underweight at 47% and wasting at 15.5% — improvement on all three indicators versus NFHS-1, though the national burden rema…
NFHS-3 (2005-06) recorded stunting at 48% and wasting at 19.8%, both higher than the previous round, even as underweight continued falling to 42.5% — despite India's eco…
NFHS-4 (2015-16) recorded stunting down to 38.4% and underweight down to 35.8% — but wasting rose to 21.0%, the highest figure recorded across all five NFHS rounds.
Conducted 2016-18, CNNS expanded measurement to school-age children and adolescents and added micronutrient and dietary data. For children 0-4, it found roughly 35% stun…
On 8 March 2018, the government launched POSHAN Abhiyaan, India's National Nutrition Mission — framing malnutrition as a problem requiring convergence across ministries,…
NFHS-5 (2019-21) recorded stunting at 35.5%, underweight at 32.1% and wasting at 19.3% — the first round where both stunting and underweight improved on the prior round,…
In 2021, the government consolidated Anganwadi services, POSHAN Abhiyaan and adolescent-girl nutrition interventions under one umbrella mission, built around a life-cycl…
By May 2026, the Poshan Tracker digital platform operated across all 28 states and 8 Union Territories, with over 8.9 crore registered beneficiaries, nutrition data for…
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