AP YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus Scheme | Nutrition Food For Pregnant Women:- YSR Sampoorna Poshana scheme, which aims to cover 3.18 lakh children and 0.66 lakh pregnant and lactating mothers in 77 Scheduled areas, an allocation of Rs 1,500 crore was proposed. In total, an allocation of Rs 3,456 crore was proposed for the Women, Children, Differently Abled and Senior Citizens Department.
The government of Andhra Pradesh has taken special steps for enhancing women’s safety and security by enacting the stringent AP Disha Act, 2019. Amendments in the Indian Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code have been made for ensuring completion of investigation and trial within 21 working days and for providing death penalty in cases of sexual offences against women and children.
YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus Scheme
The Cabinet also approved YSR Sampoorna Poshana and YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus schemes for supplying nutritious food to pregnant women and children. YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus is intended to supply nutritious food in 77 tribal mandals. The government will spend Rs 1,863.11 crore to supply nutritious food to pregnant women and children belonging to BPL families.
Other Decision Taken by AP Government
- The Government have reviewed the existing nutrition program and observed that the key malnutrition indicators (as per National Family Health Survey-4, 2015-16), i.e., Underweight (low weight for age); Wasting (low weight for height) in children below 5 years age; Anaemia (<11.0 g/dl) in women aged 15-49 are significantly high in Srikakulam (71.8%), Vizianagaram (75.5%), Visakhapatnam (66.4%), East Godavari (64.6%). The other nutritional indicators viz., dietary diversity and consumption of age specific diet are minimal in Tribal Mandals. Malnutrition and Anaemia are also significantly high in Primitive Tribal Groups (Chenchu) of Guntur, Prakasam and Kurnool districts. The incidence of under-nutrition in tribal population is mainly due to
- poverty and persistent under-nutrition
- lack of knowledge impacting nutrition and health seeking behavior due to geographical remoteness.
- poor environmental sanitation and lack of safe drinking water, leading to increased morbidity
- 2 . The need for focused approach in Tribal areas is identified by the Government departments, NITI Ayog and technical partners like UNICEF, NIN, The World Bank, CARE India, etc.
- i. Planning department has identified 30 lowest performing mandals in terms of nutrition, health, anaemia, socio economic, water and sanitation, hygiene parameters, households with safe cooking practices etc and all these identified 30 mandals are in the scheduled & sub plan mandals of 7 ITDAs.
Ysr sampurna poshana plus
The Cabinet also decided to provide Rs 18,750 financial aid to people above 45 years and up to 60 years as promised under the party’s ‘Navarathnalu’ programme. Around 25 lakh women are going to benefit under the scheme.
We have also decided to spend Rs 18,000 crore for the benefit of pregnant women and children under YSR Sampoorna Poshana and YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus schemes. Another Rs 153 crore will be spent for setting up the tribal engineering college in Vizinagaram’s Kurupam,” YSRCP minister Perni Nani said after the Cabinet meeting.
Benefits of This Scheme
- The government will spend 600 Rupees on each beneficiary ( Infant) aged 6 to 36 months.
- Each beneficiary child will get One egg every day for a month,20 ml milk every month, and 100 grams of Balamrutham for 30 days directly through Home Ration.
- The government will spend 560 Rupees on each beneficiary ( Infant) aged 36 to 72 months.
- Each beneficiary child will get daily hot cook meals for 25 days,75 Grams Dal, 15 Grams Oil, Vegetable, daily payasam , Ladoo, Biscuits, Cakes for 25 days feeding at AWS.
- Each Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers will get hot cook meals for 25 days,75 Grams Dal, 15 Grams Oil, Vegetables, 200 ml milk for 25 days.
- The beneficiaries will also get 2kgs of multi-grain atta or Wheat Floue on 1st week, 500 grams groundnut chikki in the second week, 500 grams ragi flour and jaggery the third week, and 500 grams of Till Laddu in the fourth week feeding at AWS and weekly take-home ration.
Different Scheme Allotted
YSR Sampoorna Poshana Scheme: Rs 1500 crores
DWCRA Women Zero Interest Scheme : Rs 1365.08 crores
YSR Pension Kanuka: Rs 16,000 crores
Jagananna Amma Vodi Scheme: Rs 6,000 crores
YSR Cheyutha scheme: Rs 6,300 crores
YSR Asara Scheme: Rs 6,300 crores
YSR Vahana Mitra: Rs 275.52 crores
YSR Nethanna Nestham: Rs 200 crores
Jagananna Thodu Scheme: Rs 930 crores
Jagananna Chedodu Scheme: Rs 247 crores
Village and ward secretariat system: Rs 46.46 crores
Real-time Governance: Rs 54.51 crores
Agricultural Laboratories: Rs 65 crores
YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisan scheme: Rs 3,615.60 crores
Dr. YSR free crop insurance scheme: Rs 500 crores
Jagananna Vidya Deevena, Vasathi Deevena: Rs 2,277 crores
Interest-free loans: Rs 1100 crores.
The cabinet of Andhra Pradesh has recently decided to provide Rs. 18,750/- as financial help to the people of the state who are above the age of 45 years up to 60 years as promised the party’s “Navarathnalu” programme. More than 35 lakh women of the state will get special benefit under this scheme in the year 2020.
The government authority has also decided to spend around Rs. 18,000/- crore to the pregnant women and the children under the YSR Sampoorna Poshana and YSR Sampoorna Poshana Plus Scheme 2021. The YSRCP minister Perni Nani also pointed out that in the cabinet meeting that they will also decide to spent another 153 crore Rupees for setting up the tribal engineering college in Vizinagaram’s Kurupam.
The YSR Sampoorna Poshana Scheme aims to provide nutritious food to pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children below six years of age.
The applicants apply for this scheme online in offline mode through AWS Workers.
The Anganwadi Supervisors will monitor the pregnant and lactating mothers’ weight and height every month to the beneficiaries.