An exclusive interview with Dr Parmeet Kaur, chief dietitian, Dept of Dietetics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, on nutrition transition, wrong food choices and our health woes.

Dr Umesh Kapil is a professor of epidemiology at the Institute of Liver And Biliary Sciences, Delhi. He has been a professor of Public Health Nutrition at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, earlier.

What’s the biggest challenge that faces India today, we asked. They listed out everything, except those that should matter the most to them. A simple experiment by the Outlook Poshan team.

As part of the programme, the company aims to reduce child stunting by 40 per cent and wasting by 95 percent in the 1,000 villages over five years.

Sankar said that India needs multiple sectors to come together and play a role in the fight against malnutrition. “And corporates and businesses are one of the important pillars of any economy, and they too should play the role they can.”

With its network of 13 offices and fanning across 16 states, Unicef India is focusing on supporting the government’s Nutrition Mission in a big way through programmes to increase awareness and understanding of good nutrition, de Wagt told Outlook

NITI Aayog Advisor Alok Kumar says, the government is determinedly pushing ahead with its flagship Poshan Abhiyaan as it seeks to tackle malnutrition in the country in a big way.

In an exclusive interview with Outlook, Smriti Irani, Union Minister for Women and Child Development, talks about the POSHAN Abhiyaan—and why she thinks it is a game-changer for India.