Preeti Pant Panel to Study Adverse Findings of NFHS-5
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry has recently formed a technical expert group to study the adverse findings from the National Family Health Survey-5.
Key Points
- The Ministry has set up the technical committee of medicine and nutrition experts under the leadership of Joint Secretary Preeti Pant.
- The expert group also includes State programme officers from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Karnataka.
- The committee will examine the findings of the National Family Health Survey-5 as well as suggest policies and courses of action to improve on indicators related to anemia, malnutrition, C-section, and stunting.
- The newly formed technical expert group will conduct meetings regularly and will provide its recommendations soon.
- As of now, no meeting has been held and no date has been finalized for the first meeting.
National Family Health Survey-5
The factsheet of the 1st phase of National Family Health Survey-5 was released in December 2020. The sheet covered 22 States/UTs and provided information on 131 indicators like family welfare, population, nutrition, reproductive and child health, etc.
Before the National Family Health Survey-5, four surveys have been conducted in the years 199293, 199899, 200506, and 201516. All the NFHS rounds were conducted by the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai.