Amarjeet Sinha writes: Nutrition as a subject does not lend itself to narrow departmentalism. It calls for a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach. Technology can at best be a means. Monitoring, too, has to become local.
It is a programme that has done well across the country. As skill sets improved, recognition and respect for the ASHA went up. In a way, it became a programme that allowed a local woman to develop into a skilled health worker.
Clearly, rural households do not migrate to urban areas for very low paid jobs as survival is possible with improved rural infrastructure, housing, etc in rural areas now more than before.
