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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Rajasthan twice in January – first on January 14 to lay foundation stone for HPCL refinery at Pachpadra in Barmer district and then on January 22 to launch the National Nutrition Mission (NMM) from Jhunjhunu.
“The all India launch of NMM will take place from Jhunjhunu. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has confirmed the visit,” said an official, who is not authorised to speak to the media. The union cabinet approved setting up of NNM on December 1, with a three year budget of ₹9,046.17 crore beginning 2017-18. The mission will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions across the ministries.
The proposal consists of mapping of various schemes contributing towards addressing malnutrition and includes introducing a robust convergence mechanism, IT-based real time monitoring system and incentivising states for meeting the targets apart from incentivizing anganwadi workers for using IT-based tools.
