Increasing obesity in childhood: Savitri Thakur expressed great concern during Poshan Pakhwada 2025|
New Delhi: Union Minister Savitri Thakur gave an important message during the inauguration of Poshan Pakhwada 2025 – “Not just undernutrition, over-nutrition and obesity have also become a big problem in children.”
Eating oily unhealthy snacks – a big impact on childhood health
Thakur said that today’s children eat too much oily and non-nutritious food. This not only increases their weight, but also brings the risk of many diseases. Nutrition does not only mean weak children, now obesity has also become a big challenge.”
Another step towards a healthy India – 7th edition of Poshan Pakhwada
This time Poshan Pakhwada, i.e. the 2-week nutrition awareness campaign, aims to:
Every mother and child should get full nutrition
No child should sleep hungry
Every family should get health services
Community and many other changes are needed
Thakur ji emphasized on community participation. He said that changing habits is important, just giving knowledge is not enough. Healthy eating, regular physical activity, and awareness can all together become a solution to fight obesity.
He said: “PM Modi has also been concerned about this issue many times. We have to work together – eat healthy food, play regularly, and give necessary nutrition to everyone.”
100 crore awareness activities have been done so far
Since the launch of Poshan Abhiyaan in 2018, 100+ crore awareness activities have been done till now. This time too Anganwadi workers and state officials will go door to door to explain to people, give referrals, and motivate them to follow the rules of Poshan Tracker.
This time the 4 key focus areas of Poshan Pakhwada:
1 First 1000 days of nutrition – nutrition of children in mother’s womb
2 Citizen module of Ocean Tracker
3 Community Based Management of Malnutrition (CMAM)
4 Promoting healthy lifestyle – so that obesity is controlled in children
Union Minister Annpurna Devi also met Arunachal during the Pakhwada If you are going to the state, please go to the ground and review the initiatives.
Poshan Abhiyaan is becoming a national movement.
Under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, Poshan Pakhwada has now become a public movement with the help of health, education, rural development and Jal Shakti ministries – in which every citizen has an important role.
What have you learned?
Nutrition is not just an issue of poverty or weak children. In today’s time, overeating and unhealthy food have also become a big problem. Therefore, it is important that we all adopt a healthy lifestyle together and ensure nutrition of every mother and child. You also participate in this Poshan Pakhwada, spread awareness, and contribute in creating a healthy rain.
