How A National Institute Fights Malnourishment On A Country Wide Scale
Nutrition Surveillance Programme (NSP) was implemented by the Hyderabad-based National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) with the objective of early identification of people who are highly susceptible to malnourishment.
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00:03 National Institute of Nutrition is actually 100 years old
00:11 institute.
00:12 India faces a lot of nutrition challenges even today.
00:15 Most of the regulatory bodies and central government
00:19 and several state governments depend
00:22 on data provided by NIN.
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00:31 We also developed the fortification of ATA.
00:34 NIN also has developed Nutrition Atlas, which gives
00:36 a resolution at district level.
00:38 We aim to counsel women or couples who
00:42 are planning for pregnancy and try
00:44 to correct their nutrition and health right before pregnancy
00:47 so the future generation is going to be healthy.
00:50 And across generations, this imprinting is going to spread.
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