Anaemia Control project under Mission Utkarsh

February 28, 2024

The Centre launched an initiative to improve nutrition in adolescent girls using Ayurveda.
The project for anaemia control under Mission Utkarsh will be a joint public health initiative by the Ministries of Ayush and Women and Child Development.
It would be launched in five aspirational districts first as a pilot project.
In the first phase, the focus may be on improving the anaemic status of adolescent girls (14-18 years) in five aspirational districts of five states –
- Assam (Dhubri), Chhattisgarh (Bastar), Jharkhand (Paschimi Singhbhum), Maharashtra (Gadchiroli), and Rajasthan (Dhaulpur).
Under Mission Utkarsh, 15 central ministries or departments will work to elevate districts at the bottom, to state and national averages.
This project will cover approximately 10,000 Anganwadi Centres in the five districts.
The aim is nutritional improvement among approximately 95,000 adolescent girls in anaemia prone districts.