NITI Aayog has launched National Nutrition Strategy today. It lays the roadmap for targeted action to address India's nutritional needs. NITI's national nutrition strategy calls for convergence between four proximate determinants of nutrition – food, health services, income and water.<br/><br/>Currently, there is also a lack of real time measurement of these determinants, which reduces the capacity for targeted action among the most vulnerable mothers and children.<br/><br/>The strategy will bring nutrition to the centre-stage of the National Development Agenda. The Nutrition Strategy framework envisages a Kuposhan Mukt Bharat – linked to Swachh Bharat and Swasth Bharat.<br/><br/>The strategy enables states to make strategic choices, through decentralized planning and local innovation, with accountability for nutrition outcomes. NITI Aayog said supply side challenges often overshadow the need to address behavioural change efforts to generate demand for nutrition services.<br/><br/>This strategy, therefore, gives prominence to demand and community mobilisation as a key determinant to address India's nutritional needs.