26th -27th June & 2nd -3rd July 2020
‘The Eat Right India Movement’ by FSSAI, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India is a nation-wide movement with a focus on preventive and promotive healthcare through social and behavioural change on eating healthy and safe food. It is aligned with Government recent initiative’s ‘Ayushman Bharat’, ‘Jan-Aandolan’ & ‘Poshan Abhiyaan’.
As a part of the movement, an ‘Eat Right’ toolkit has been developed which aims to engage and enable citizens to eat healthy and safe food. The toolkit has been co-developed by three organizations: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) & National Health Systems Resource Centers (NHSRC). The toolkit through its engaging component aims to target front-line health workers as well as local communities. It will reach out to the citizens through the channel of Health & Wellness Centres under AYUSHMAN BHARAT platform of Government of India.
Around 40 National trainers have been trained online on the ‘Eat Right’ Toolkit collectively by FSSAI, VHAI & NHSRC under the aegis of MoHFW, Government of India. The State trainers will be trained in the next few months, subsequently the state trainers will train Medical Officers & CHOs, who will further train the staff of Health & Wellness Centers (HWCs) for wider dissemination of information among the local communities.
This toolkit has been also contextualized and translated by VHAI in five languages- Hindi, Punjabi, Oriya, Assamese & Gujarati. The Eat Right Toolkit can be downloaded at https://eatrightindia.gov.in/index