Multiple choice

Which of the following major recommendations were arrived at after the first meeting of the Prime Minister's National Council for India's Nutrition Challenges?

  1. Strengthening and restructuring the ICDS Scheme
  2. Introducing a nation-wide information, education and communication campaign against malnutrition
  3. Setting up of a Food and Nutrition Board as an attached office under the Ministry of Women and Child Development

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 1 and 3

  4. All three
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Explanation

The Food and Nutrition Board is a pre-existing institution, which operates through a technical wing at the Centre and four regional offices. It was established in 1964 under the Ministry of Agriculture. The Prime Minister's National Council for India's Nutritional Challenges met for the first time on 24th November, 2010.

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