National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau
India’s only agency collecting data onnutrition deficiency among marginalised populations.
- Shut down by Union Health Ministry
- Under ICMR
- Its mandate was to generate data on Nutritional status of socially vulnerable group
- It was critical in informing the governments poverty alleviation interventions with periodic assessment of nutrient deficiency in tribal, women, children etc.
- NNMB was crucial in policy interventions to address under-nutrition
- Bureau was the only institution involved in continuous collection of data of actual dietary intakes of household –> valuable input
- Scrapped as it was working in Project mode (??)
- Proposal under consideration to develop Nutrition Monitoring Stations across country as a permanent structure within the ICMR