**13. Policy level nutritional interventions to fight against malnutrition**

Based on understanding towards a wide range of factors responsible for malnutrition among children, the policy called for the adoption of a multi-sectoral approach along with multiple measures to achieve the goal of optimum nutrition for all. Important government led policy level interventions and programmes to combat malnutrition are as follows:

#### **13.1 Direct policy measures**


### **13.2 Indirect policy measures**


#### *Childhood Malnutrition in India DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89701*

The Government of India enacted the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013 to enable food and nutritional security by ensuring access to adequate quantity of quality food at affordable prices to people to live a life with dignity. This legal provision has put the onus on the state to guarantee basic entitlements.
