The Ministry of Women and Child Development is celebrating the Poshan Pakhwada from March 16 to March 31, 2021.
The Department of Women & Child Development or the Social Welfare Department will be the nodal department to look after the Poshan Pakhwada.
It is celebrated across the states and Union Territories.
The key focus areas of the Pakhwada are to address the nutritional challenges using the Food Forestry and to organize the Poshan Panchayats.
Under this the National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) working under the Ministry of AYUSH, will distribute 4 samplings of the nutritional rich plants to each of the Anganwadi Centres.