Witness the esteemed presence of M Venkaiah Naidu, the Honourable Vice President of India, as he addresses the Outlook Poshan Awards 2019. Delve into his insightful speech, where he emphasizes the importance of nutrition and its impact on the overall development of individuals and the nation.
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00:00 Sri Ruben Banerjee, Head and Chief, Outlook Magazine.
00:07 Sri Indranil Roy, CEO, Outlook.
00:11 Sri Basant Kumar Kaur, Country Director, Project Concern, International India.
00:16 Sri Ravi Bhatnagar, Director, Members of the Jury, Awardees, and Brothers and Sisters.
00:27 I am very happy to be here with you all today for this very constructive, meaningful, and
00:56 meaningful program.
01:01 I am delighted to be here at the Outlook Speak Out Portion Program on Nutrition being organized
01:06 by Outlook India. It has to change the Outlook of India.
01:14 That is possible through proper communication, proper education, proper motivation by all
01:24 the people concerned. It cannot be done by government alone or it cannot be done by one
01:32 organization. It has to be a societal effort. The entire country, society, they must all
01:40 join together and understand the seriousness and importance of this program.
01:46 That's why I am very happy that the Outlook Magazine has taken a very constructive, what
01:52 we call in Hindi, a Rachanatmak Karakram, I am very happy about that. Mahatma Gandhi
01:57 ji always used to say that it is very important to participate in a Rachanatmak Karakram.
02:02 India is a country built on the hopes of 1.35 billion people. In my long political career,
02:09 I have had the opportunity to see the country and my fellow countrymen very closely. 42
02:15 years in my public life, right from being a student leader to a legislator, to a party
02:21 functionary at the state level, at the national level, and then as a minister of rural development,
02:27 minister of urban development, and now of course as the vice president. I have an opportunity
02:33 to go around the country, almost all districts except very few. I had an occasion to visit,
02:40 see the life of the people. I can say with utmost certainty that we are a nation of the
02:49 indomitable spirit and unmatchable potential to show excellence in every field. The latest
02:56 Chandrayaan-2 mission speaks volumes of our scientific fervor and technological advancements.
03:02 However, to keep India striding fast on its development trajectory, we need the people
03:09 of the country, its human capital, to be stronger and healthier. Before becoming wealthier,
03:17 we must become healthier. If you have health, then you will get wealth. But there is no
03:24 guarantee vice versa. If you are wealthier, there is no guarantee that you will be healthier.
03:31 Even if you have so much wealth, you can't eat sweet if you have diabetes. You can't
03:38 enjoy life if you don't have proper nutrition and proper healthy lifestyle. Of course, the
03:49 nutrition is a key detriment in making human capital healthier. India is a young nation
03:55 with 65% of the people under the age of 30 or 35 years. No other country is blessed with
04:03 such a huge demographic advantage. For India to fast-track progress and achieve its rightful
04:09 place in the Committee of Nations, we must ensure that our people, particularly the youngsters,
04:15 are well nourished. However, it is a matter of concern that 38.4% of children below the
04:23 age of 5 years are stunted in India. According to the National Family Health Survey,
04:30 NFHS-4, data also shows that there has been an increase in childhood wasting in the last
04:37 10 years, NFHS-3 and -4, from 19.8% to 21.1%. Raising moderate acute malnutrition, ma'am,
04:48 and severe acute malnutrition remain critical concerns. Besides undernutrition, there is
04:56 also a problem of overnutrition, of obesity. We have both the problems, undernutrition
05:03 and overnutrition also. At least 20.7% of Indian women and 18.6% of men are obese and
05:13 overweight. Hunger and obesity are the double burden of malnutrition. Some time back, I
05:20 have been to Professor M. S. Swaminathan Institute in Chennai. He is one of the greatest scientists
05:31 who was instrumental in taking our country forward through Green Revolution and then
05:38 was instrumental in attaining food security for India. But at the same time, he was also
05:45 telling, I was so impressed, that we have still hunger, we have food security, we have
05:53 surplus production, and in certain cases we are in a position to even export also. And
05:58 I hope in the future, we must first develop more on that. But a country of our size, you
06:05 cannot be complacent, because production is growing and the other production population
06:13 is also growing. It's a reality. 135 crore population. You cannot depend on imported
06:29 food security. You need to develop homegrown food security. This is what Dr. Swaminathan
06:37 stresses, and I'm very much impressed by that. You are not in Dubai or Singapore. You
06:43 go to Singapore, Dubai, nothing is produced, but you get everything beautiful, very fresh.
06:49 Fruits, vegetables, everything and all. Because they're a small country, the requirement
06:53 is small, they can import. But can a country of India's size, can we import? No. So we
07:02 have to continuously plan for increasing production. Secondly, there's another hidden hunger,
07:10 hidden hunger of nutritional deficiency. The country should focus on that. If you want
07:18 to have a healthier nation, and if you want to become wealthy, and you want to become
07:24 a strong, stable, prosperous nation, you have to focus on the health aspect also, and take
07:31 care of the nutritional deficiency. This is very important. Many of us, if you go to doctor
07:39 and have a checkup, there will be D3 deficiency, B12 deficiency, this vitamin deficiency, that
07:46 vitamin deficiency and all. But you may not understand, you may not be knowing, but it
07:52 will have its own effect on your health. And your health means on the health of the nation.
07:58 So this nutritional deficiency is also an important aspect. Water scarcity, unprecedented
08:07 drought, floods and climate vulnerability are affecting India's food production, posing
08:13 a threat to our present and future generations. As we are all aware, nutrition is essential
08:19 for a healthy immune system and a higher order cognitive ability. Therefore, empowerment
08:28 of the present and future generation should be the top priority for the country. It is
08:34 extremely crucial for inclusive and sustainable development. India is developing, no doubt,
08:40 we are marching forward. But at the same time, it has to be sustainable in the long term.
08:47 And it has to be inclusive. The country is moving forward, you have metro, you have airways,
08:54 you have railways, you are going to get bullet train, you are going to have smart cities,
08:59 you have national aid line, you have now even water transportation also is coming. The other
09:05 day my colleague Nitin Gadkari was saying he is planning to introduce air taxis, bus
09:11 will be flying. I don't know what is going to happen. And they are flying on the road.
09:18 We are seeing what is happening. But flying, that's good. Science and technology, they
09:24 are all really. But innovative things are happening, out of box ideas are coming. And
09:29 this Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modi, he gave a three line mantra, he said, reform,
09:34 perform and transform. Transform the nation. What is the transformation? Transformation
09:40 of the lives of the people. To make them not simply healthier, to make them happier. You
09:47 are wealthy, you are prosperous, still you will not be happy. What is required is happiness
09:53 also. Bharat ki paramparik vibhuta poorna bojan evam khana paana padati ache poshan par
10:00 bal deti hai. Prayah logon ka vishwas hai ki Bharatiya padati hai apne aap me. Swampoorn
10:07 hai, sthayi hai, tada yeh vartaman aur bhaavik periyon ko bhi poshan de sakti hai. Hamare
10:14 paramparik Bharatiya ka dhyan aur aahar behtar poshana dete hai. Aathah swabhaik roop se
10:21 hame apne parampararik aahar aur paag padati ko apnaana chahiye. What is disturbing is change
10:29 of lifestyle and change of food habits, particularly among the younger generation. Every region,
10:39 every season, the food has been prescribed by our forefathers. Not that they are doctors
10:49 or they are nutrition specialists and all. They have learned through their life for ages.
10:55 Our knowledge is immense. Bharatiya Paakasaastra, which is very famous across the globe, prescribed
11:04 mangoes. For example, mangoes, if you are familiar with South Andhra, you have Banginapadi.
11:10 The same mango, yesterday only I was enquiring with my daughter for a function. The mango
11:16 season, that season is over. Then mango season of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, it starts. A particular
11:23 variety flourishes, tastes in a particular season. That is the nature. Food also, our
11:31 forefathers have prescribed us according to season, what they used to call as ritu, and
11:38 then according to the local requirement. But unfortunately, with this modern life taking
11:45 over, with the western life dominating, and with this, what do you call, icons coming
11:52 and then propagating the food and the new food that is being made available, and the
11:58 children getting attracted to that. You have pizza, you have burger. And people say, sir,
12:03 now there is no need to cook the food. It is all instant food. Instant food means constant
12:10 disease. This has to be understood. How can anybody eat food without cooking? Forget about
12:21 the taste. Usme jo poshaka aahaar hai, uska kya hoga? But it is fast catching up. Weakness.
12:30 And also because of colonial mindset, we have developed another weakness, is of something
12:36 outside is good, something around old is bad. The others, the other saying they forget,
12:42 old is good, gold. People used to heckle, initially. When I went to America, first time,
12:50 I carried with me some mirchi powder, chana powder and some tamarind chutney, old tamarind
12:58 chutney. People call it as paata chintakaya pachadi. That is old tamarind chutney, old,
13:03 it is old rotten and all. So when I went to America, an interesting thing I will tell
13:08 you, the next day morning breakfast, I was trying to eat breakfast, but I could not reach
13:14 their breakfast and all. So I was, instead of applying jam to the bread, I was applying
13:21 this tamarind chutney and then eating. One of the co-delegates who is from Tamil Nadu,
13:26 I don't want to name her now, she was also part of the delegation, she told me, you can't
13:32 live without this chutney one day. After all in America, I said, okay, that's my liking
13:38 and my weakness, you don't worry. Okay. After five, six days, when we were moving around,
13:45 one day morning, she was asking when I was eating breakfast, do you have some more tamarind chutney?
13:51 She wanted to taste it. After six days. Later she became minister also. See, why I am saying
14:04 it's not because our food is great and all. It is time tested. And suits your health.
14:12 And it is all experience of thousands of years of civilization. But now the children, they go to restaurant, restaurant people also understand the weakness,
14:20 they change the names also, fashionable names. You go to restaurant, take the menu card, chicken 65, age is not even 25, but 65.
14:31 Then they name it chicken Manchuria. You have Himalaya here, why do you want Manchuria, Bulgaria, Somalia,
14:41 why do you name? But still the temptation, some new name. This is another problem.
14:48 And you don't know how much really protein is there in that or not. So there is need to educate the younger generation.
14:59 Not only younger generation, even the older generation also. About the need for protein food.
15:08 This is about people who can afford. About the people who cannot afford, the downtrodden, the suppressed, the depressed people, the poor people.
15:16 It is the duty of the state and the well-meaning society to take care of those sections. We have just now given award to some of the organizations.
15:25 Some are educating, some are feeding, and some are providing. This is part of our culture.
15:32 Indian culture, share and care is the core of Indian culture. Share and care is the core of Indian culture.
15:40 We believe in Vasudhaika Kutumbakam, entire universe is one family. Sarve Jana Sukhino Bhavantu.
15:48 So you have to share with others, then you get immense happiness. Immense happiness.
15:55 So this, some of the organization, Akshaya Patra, we have just now given them an award.
15:59 There are many organizations across the country, I go around, I know. So these people are trying to provide,
16:07 one is protein as food and free food. Many organizations, governments also, some of the governments also, they are trying to provide it and all.
16:14 But my point here is mere governmental effort alone will not suffice. Government has so many challenges on so many fronts.
16:23 So along with the government, the society also must get involved. The well-meaning people, the people who are capable, the rich.
16:31 That has been our tradition of our country. Over the years what happened, our political system made us to think,
16:38 "Why is someone outside, somebody is speaking I think, on my phone?" No, no, no, please.
16:45 Normally the system is they take your phone and keep it separately, protocol as vice president.
16:53 But I told them, "By the way, they like the phone more than their babies, let them carry it."
16:59 And again, there will be a problem of misplacement also. First misplacement, then displacement.
17:08 So, otherwise, because that will cause disturbance to others. That's not any other, this thing.
17:15 We, over the years, the political system made us to think that everything will be done by government. Don't worry. Everything.
17:23 Sab kaam sarkar karega, hum bekar bhatte toh chirega. This mentality has been developed.
17:29 Otherwise, Swachh Bharat, PM has to start a campaign for a clean India. Clean India is for all of us.
17:35 Beti bachao, beti padhao. It's a societal duty to take care of the girl child, educate her, empower her.
17:44 That's also part of our responsibility. Plantation of tree, taking care of the nature is your duty.
17:51 But now, it needs a movement, government, expenditure, department.
17:57 All these things are wrong. Because the society has forgotten some of its responsibilities.
18:03 Yoga, yoga is an ancient Indian art. Yoga also now, Modi ji has to promote it and go to United Nations and propose it and 172 countries are agreeing.
18:13 Across the globe now, people are practicing yoga. Yoga is an ancient Indian art and science.
18:20 It's a subject art and science, both. Yoga is both art and science.
18:25 And some people also in India, everything people suspect.
18:29 Arey inhone kuch kar raha hai. Arey outreach wale achanak abhi poshan abhiyaan kyu kar raha hai?
18:34 Achha kaam kar raha hai unko abhinandar karo. Aisa nahi hai. Ek varg, sab lag rahe hai. Ek varg aise hi bhate hai is desh mein.
18:43 Arey ek vise mein sankha vikth karna. Doubt express karna. Suspect karna. Suspect nahi karna.
18:50 Yeh ek bhimari hai. Jitna jaisdi hum bhimari se bahar aapke toh, uttana achha hoga.
18:56 Because 72 years after independence. Yoga, yoga, yoga is for your body, not because of Modi.
19:04 You have to understand. This is for your body. If you do yoga, one boy asked me,
19:11 what is the benefit I get, sir? Kya hoga mujhe? Mane kuch nahi hoga, aap yogya banaoge.
19:17 Yoga kare toh yogya banaoge. Har kaam ke liye yogya hogi. Taking care of your own health.
19:24 So this campaign by Outlook magazine is very significant. I am really happy.
19:33 I have different views about their political outtrick. But I am no more in politics.
19:41 That's unfortunate. I am no more in politics. I am retired from politics, but not tired from public life.
19:47 But this initiative, not only this, even earlier about water problem is going to be a major, major problem.
19:55 Yesterday we were in a samvad with Sadguru, Sri Vasudevji. I invited him to my house,
20:00 called couple of people, Supreme Court judges, IPS officers, ministers, speaker, everybody was there.
20:07 He was explaining about us, about the need for agroforestry.
20:13 Agroforestry. Growing trees, protecting forests is required.
20:20 Otherwise, you don't care for nature, nature will not care for you.
20:24 That's why you are seeing all this climate change, world wide movement, pre-empt taking initiative.
20:30 All these things are because we have started disrespecting the nature.
20:36 That's why I suggest to the people, love and live with the nature.
20:42 You love the nature, nature will love you. Nature means all, you know all, I did not explain.
20:48 Nature, culture, together for better future.
20:55 This is my advice to all. Nature, culture, together for better future.
20:59 Whose future? Your own future.
21:02 We should really think in this terms and there is a need to change the mindset and change the outlook of the people of India.
21:10 That's why I am very happy to be here today.
21:14 The Indian food and diet system with their diversity promote good nutrition.
21:20 People at large believe that Indian way is self-sustained and it can very well support the present and future generations.
21:27 These traditional Indian diets promote better nutrition and therefore we must promote our traditional food and feeding practices.
21:35 Earlier, those days, ragi, jowar, bajra, milk products, people never used to sell milk.
21:46 They used to drink milk and feed poor people also.
21:50 I remember my grandfathers, grandmothers, they used to give milk to all the poor people from our surplus in the village.
21:58 The village used to take care of the needy.
22:01 We are now, we have milk production going up, but most of the milk we are selling also.
22:07 The food habits are very important, I need not further explain about it.
22:14 The traditional food and feeding practices over the years, we have enjoyed.
22:18 Now, I am happy, now people are moving, again branding, separate, what is this, organic food.
22:26 Every food must be organic, natural food, natural things.
22:32 People are now slowly moving, but we, the nation must move towards the natural food, organic food, nutritious food.
22:41 For that, this nation is huge.
22:44 Different regions, different religions, different, some people link it with religion also.
22:49 Food and religion, I don't know what is it.
22:51 It's a good thing, it's a personal habit.
22:56 You want to be vegetarian, be vegetarian. If you want to be non-vegetarian, okay, you want to be both like me, that also is allowed, no problem.
23:03 Vegetarian, one, non-vegetarians have an advantage.
23:07 They are non-vegetarian, also vegetarian.
23:10 Non-vegetarian, I must say.
23:13 So, on that also, again, yeh khaana gharath hai.
23:18 But, at the same time, you should not hurt the sentiments of others.
23:22 Often we find nowadays in few institutions, this festival, that festival, kiss festival, beef festival.
23:29 Re, primis karein festival ke kya zarurat hai? Aapko jo khaana hai, khao.
23:33 Kisi ko kiss karna, unka anumati se hi karna padta hai na.
23:38 Both are of that age.
23:41 Do it privately, why do you do it in public and call it a festival?
23:45 This is another weakness of our system.
23:48 Government should not get into this.
23:51 And even others also should not bother. But only thing is, there is a, something called as societal order, decency,
23:58 and also public health.
24:01 Public health also, because there will be disturbance, I will remind.
24:05 For others.
24:08 These people may not be noticing it.
24:11 All these things require education of the people.
24:15 And then, we must go back to our old food habits.
24:20 It has also been observed that many Indian states have done exemplary work in the field of nutrition.
24:25 Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Mizoram, Gujarat, Odisha, Delhi and Assam have shown reduction in stunting.
24:35 It's a good development.
24:38 Meghalaya, Mizoram, Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala have shown success in reduction of wasting.
24:45 Sikkim, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand have shown success in reduction of anemia.
24:53 We need to celebrate our success and be proud to scale up this evidence and learning.
25:00 These achievements can inspire others to replicate and take forward this initiative.
25:05 Why this felicitation?
25:08 Felicitation, what is it they are going to get by this award or whatever you have given?
25:14 Felicitation is to give inspiration to others.
25:19 You felicitate Odisha, other states should also do it.
25:24 What is it they have done? We should also follow.
25:27 Something like that. You felicitate ordinary people, common people.
25:32 You felicitate organizations also, institutions also for the good work.
25:37 Because good practices has to be followed.
25:40 Before following you should know what are the good practices etc.
25:44 Our programs and policies should be evidence based.
25:47 Information, you can give information.
25:50 But information with confirmation is more than an emanation.
25:54 If you simply say this is good, doubt hota hai.
25:57 Jaisa mene kaaran doubting Thomas zyada hai mare desh mein. Doubt hota hai.
26:01 So if you prove it with confirmation saying this has brought down the stunting to this level,
26:06 this has increased the proteinness of the people to this level,
26:09 this is the evidence, this is the report, this is the survey,
26:13 then that will carry more conviction to the people.
26:16 I would urge the research at academic institutions like ICMR, CFTRI, ICAR, NIN,
26:23 National Institute of Nutrition, IITs, and AIMS and aims and others to carry out more research in the area of nutrition.
26:33 There is a need for further research.
26:36 And research and science and technology is for improving the lives of the people.
26:43 So this should go on.
26:44 It should also be noted that adolescent girls act as the second window of opportunity
26:50 in the case of addressing malnutrition,
26:53 while the first 1000 days of life being the first window,
26:56 preventing early marriage of girls, addressing girl dropout from schools,
27:01 delaying first pregnancy, and adequate spacing between births would greatly contribute to better nutrition.
27:09 We also need to involve agriculture, animal husbandry, health and family welfare,
27:15 and food and civil supplies ministries in nutrition planning.
27:21 Ideally, we should overlay nutrition maps with agriculture maps on what produce should be able to achieve optimal nutrition
27:30 and recommend seed kits promoting dry land agriculture will be a game changer on the nutrition front.
27:39 I can tell you, share my own experience, as long as we are doing dry farming,
27:44 we are very healthy.
27:46 After we got water through canals and start cultivating rice and also going for various varieties,
27:55 after we started getting the rice mills, polishing mills,
27:59 after we were successful in eliminating all the poached padartha from rice
28:04 and eating fashionable white rice without any substance,
28:08 the diseases started coming.
28:10 We are not realizing it.
28:12 I am not suggesting nobody should eat rice, no, no, we should eat rice also.
28:17 But at the same time, the other, millets, cereals,
28:22 they are all very important for a nutritious food.
28:28 Initiation of breastfeeding within an hour of birth is extremely important
28:33 and prevents neonatal morbidity and mortality,
28:39 helps to build continual immunity in a placental separation.
28:45 Exclusive breastfeeding needs to be ensured up to six months.
28:49 In India, the rate of exclusive breastfeeding is only 55%,
28:53 according to survey,
28:56 and only 41% are able to start breastfeeding within an hour of giving birth to a newborn.
29:02 Breastfeeding needs to continue up to two years.
29:05 It is pertinent to mention that we are observing World Breastfeeding Week from August 1st to 7th.
29:12 We need to actively promote the breastfeeding to ensure optimal nutrition
29:17 and reduce disease risk among infants.
29:21 Dear sisters and brothers and my dear youngsters,
29:24 the reach of ICDS cannot be matched by any other system.
29:28 We need to ensure that ICDS serves right complementary food for children below two years
29:33 and supplementary food for pregnant and lactating women.
29:38 It is also equally important to address micronutrient malnutrition in the country through supplementation,
29:45 food fortification, biofortification and conventional plant breeding.
29:50 Dietary diversification needs to be ensured that increased consumption of green leafy vegetables,
29:56 fruits, lentils and other protein-rich food items.
30:01 Immunization is essential to prevent children from falling prey to various dangerous diseases.
30:07 I am glad that the government has launched Mission Indra Dhanush to vastly improve immunization coverage.
30:13 By continuing our efforts to ensure safe motherhood through schemes such as
30:18 Pradhana Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, Pradhana Mantri Maitreyava Suraksha Abhinayan and Ayushmaan Bharat,
30:27 we also need to focus on ensuring good quality, easily accessible and affordable maternal health care service for all women.
30:36 Since nutrition is closely linked with agriculture sector, we need to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
30:43 Nutrition-sensitive agriculture. Agriculture is our basic culture.
30:48 In that, nutrition sensitivity should be brought in.
30:51 Dry land agriculture and naturally biofortified crops like minor millet, amla and drumstick.
30:58 It is about time India focused on precision agriculture using artificial intelligence for food, nutrition and water security.
31:07 Micronutrient deficiencies, which are commonly known as deficiencies of vitamins and minerals,
31:13 that is below healthy thresholds, are a major public health problem in India today.
31:18 They affect all the income groups across all states.
31:21 Micronutrient deficiency results in low productivity, poor cognitive and physical development.
31:30 We need to address this through supplementation, food fortification and dietary diversity.
31:37 Dietary diversity. We have so much diversity in our country, in our culture, in our living, but also in food.
31:45 And we have so many varieties of food we can't even explain.
31:49 I also feel that the state food commissions should be designed, designated as state food and nutrition commissions
31:55 and empowered to review, monitor and ensure access to nutrition food.
32:00 Apart from establishing a system to generate and review nutrition data, the status of interventions in multiple sectors,
32:07 there is a need to focus on effective implementation of proven interventions.
32:11 Anganawadi centers should be the points of convergence for nutrition, health and food security services.
32:17 I feel that there is also a need to leverage the human capital potential.
32:22 5.5 million self-help groups, they are doing wonderful, some of them are doing wonderful work.
32:28 With 60 million women members, 76,000 village level dairy cooperatives,
32:33 250,000 panchayats across 640,867 villages, 13.6 million Anganawadi centers,
32:41 1.4 million workers, ASHA workers and 1.1 million helpers also,
32:47 and ANMs should work together for the success of the mission to make India more nutrition free.
32:54 These grassroot level workers must be imparted training and empowered with adequate budget.
33:00 The Pradhan Mantri Poshan Avyaan, the scheme for holistic nourishment,
33:04 can be guiding light for all the nutrition related interventions in the country.
33:09 It aims to benefit 100 million people in three phases from 17-18 to 19-20.
33:15 It targets the reduction of stunting, undernutrition, anemia and low birth weight.
33:21 I feel that Poshan Avyaan needs to be implemented in a campaign mode.
33:26 Greater involvement of panchayats, civil society organizations and people's networks.
33:31 In fact, there should be a national movement on the lines of Swachh Bharat,
33:35 Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Avyaan and similar other schemes to eliminate the scourge of
33:40 non-nutrition and other nutrition related problems.
33:43 I also feel there is a need to bring a nutrition revolution in the country
33:47 by creating women nutrition warriors or change leaders at the Hamlet level.
33:53 If you educate a woman, you are educating a family.
33:57 So that's why the focus should be more on women.
34:01 These change leaders need to create awareness and provide counselling by visiting every home.
34:06 Dear sisters and brothers, India is definitely ready for the nutrition revolution to address
34:11 malnutrition and it has to be led by women.
34:13 All stakeholders and policy makers in the health sector need to immediately focus on the problem of raising obesity.
34:20 Let us address India's double burden on malnutrition.
34:25 Finally, in my concluding remarks, I would like to stress that every child has a right to receive good nutrition.
34:31 It is a necessity to address malnutrition in all forms in a life cycle approach with a focus on first 1000 days of life.
34:39 We need to build on the numerous best practices, evidences and models to eradicate malnutrition.
34:46 Special focus should be on pregnant and lactating mothers to build future potential
34:52 and see a new generation of citizens empowered with maximum physical and mental potentiality.
34:58 The government and development partners need to come together on a common platform,
35:03 work for this national cause.
35:05 Greater allocation of corporate social responsibility funds must go for nutrition related interventions.
35:12 The government and government agencies should also use their corporate resources in increasing nutrition.
35:18 It is possible that the government should also focus on the conservation of the land,
35:24 such as the community areas, such as the manrega.
35:31 Parliamentarians should also utilize their MPLATs towards nutrition.
35:35 Manrega schemes, we are spending around 65,000 crores on manrega, creating work.
35:41 They should also focus on nutrition related activities by promoting multi gardens, kitchen gardens and community lands.
35:49 Through this program, to increase public awareness on this topic of national importance,
35:54 Outlook group is working hard.
35:58 There is no alternative to nutritious food, but it is a necessary condition for the bright future of New India.
36:06 So I must once again compliment Outlook group and also urge upon all the media in the country.
36:13 Media, cinema, art, they are all very powerful communications in the modern society.
36:24 They should all have this responsibility of creating awareness among the people.
36:31 As I said, it's a societal responsibility.
36:34 Unfortunately in India, the focus of newspapers is more on sensationalism.
36:42 Sensationalism means you lose sense during that moment.
36:47 What is required is realism.
36:51 Breaking news, making news. Make news, but don't break news.
36:56 And combining news and views is another bad disease.
37:04 News has to be news, perfect.
37:07 And your views, yes, sorting a paper and then you must have every right to have your own editorial,
37:13 your articles and all, but they should be separate.
37:16 News and views should never be combined together.
37:21 Because there are so many channels now, thousands of channels,
37:26 morning news, evening news, afternoon news,
37:29 till today, till tomorrow, straight talk, reverse talk, how much to remember,
37:33 it's difficult to remember.
37:35 What is the headline of whom?
37:37 And they say, "Sir, headlines."
37:39 They also ask questions.
37:41 I was a speaker for a while.
37:43 They came and asked, "Sir, what is it? This is the headline."
37:46 I said, "This may be your line."
37:48 "No, sir, headline."
37:50 They used to say, "Your headline cannot be a deadline to me. I have my own line."
37:54 "No, sir, there are reports."
37:57 I used to say, "There is no support for your report."
38:00 You must report and leave it to the people for judgment.
38:06 You cannot be a reporter and also a judge.
38:10 This is a new trend that has come in the media.
38:13 This has to take.
38:15 And at the same time, politics alone is not the life.
38:19 Life includes sports.
38:21 Life includes arts.
38:23 Life includes agriculture.
38:25 Life includes various vocations.
38:27 Life includes various scientific knowledge acquiring processes.
38:34 Life includes health.
38:36 Life includes so many things.
38:38 You can go on telling like that.
38:40 So you have to focus on various aspects of life.
38:43 I am happy certain magazines, certain dailies even,
38:46 they have a health column.
38:49 They have a column separately, Vasundhara, the ladies column about ladies.
38:53 And then they have business column.
38:55 Business is also part of the life.
38:57 In our country, another problem.
38:59 Business means politicians, they feel shy to talk about businessmen,
39:02 meeting them, greeting them.
39:05 You don't like businessmen during day time,
39:09 but do business with them in the evening time, night time.
39:12 What is this?
39:13 Business is part of a developmental story of the country.
39:16 Agriculture and business, industry, they must go together
39:20 in order to make your economy strong and stable.
39:23 So business column, share column, sports column also.
39:27 Like that, now the need of the hour is that you need to have
39:31 a column about the health and in the health,
39:34 there has to be a subheading about nutrition.
39:36 Because, as I told you, the ad campaign by multinational companies,
39:42 western companies, they are doing their business.
39:44 You can't now lament for allowing them because having allowed FDI.
39:48 Now it's open. We are living in an era of LPG,
39:51 liberalization, privatization, globalization.
39:54 You can't live in isolation and have the consolation.
39:58 You have to open up and face the challenge from the competition, from others.
40:03 But at the same time, you have to strengthen your own base.
40:07 And you have to really educate people.
40:10 That's why I have been now telling students also,
40:13 first focus on your mother tongue.
40:15 Mother tongue. First get proficiency in mother tongue.
40:18 And then get efficiency in other languages.
40:20 Mother tongue is equally important because the original ideas,
40:23 a child can express in her or in his mother tongue.
40:28 The other, it's like your eyes. Mother tongue is like your eyesight.
40:32 The other language is like spectacles.
40:34 (Laughter)
40:37 If you have eyesight, then this will improve your sight.
40:41 If you don't have eyesight, even if you wear reborn glasses,
40:44 forget about the foresight, you'll lose your eyesight also.
40:47 Sight also.
40:49 So, these are all elementary things, but the media has a responsibility
40:54 towards the society to educate people.
40:57 I'm happy today, I'm here in a function organized by Outlook magazine
41:02 for a noble cause.
41:04 I would like to compliment the editor-in-chief and also the CEO
41:08 and also the other journalists who are all working and making a beautiful,
41:13 wonderful contribution for the health of the nation
41:19 so that India can become a healthy and wealthy, happy nation.
41:24 Thank you very much. Namaskar. Jai Hind.