First 1000 Days Fixed Deposit -Towards Healthy Life

c We are at the end of year 2015, last year of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); we must look back and reflect. Are we on the right track? To plan post 2015 agenda it is necessary to brainstorm and review the progress in respect to maternal and child health nutrition. The 1993 National Nutrition Policy of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India has brought out some major nutrition issues like undernutrition, deficiencies of iron, iodine, and vitamin A, prevalence of low birth weight, urbanization, and nutrition problems related to natural calamities and disasters. These issues do affect infant and young child feeding practices.