Structure of answer:

• Introduction (about maternal nutrition).
• Why maternal nutrition to women is important and how it implicates for child development?
• What the major issues (current issues)
• How to overcome this?
• Way forward.
• Conclusion.

Key points:

• The major nutritional problems are protein energy malnutrition (PEM), vitamin A deficiency (VAD), iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and iodine deficiency disorders(IDD).
• This chapter focuses on the current scenario in relation to the nutritional status of children in urban slums in India.
• National nutrition supplementation programmes.
• The SNP is to provide supplementary nutrition and health care services including supply of vitamin A solution and iron and folic acid tablets to pre-school children, and pregnant and lactating mothers of poor groups in urban slums and tribal areas.
• National nutrition supplementation programmes.
• The SNP is to provide supplementary nutrition and health care services including supply of vitamin A solution and iron and folic acid tablets to pre-school children, and pregnant and lactating mothers of poor groups in urban slums and tribal areas.