(i) Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Nutrition Meal Programme
(ii) Pradhan Manthri Gramodaya Yojana Scheme.
(iii) Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Programme
(iv) Mid-day Meal Programme.

(i) The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) was launched by the United Nations Development Programme ((INDP) and the Oxford Poverty Human Development Initiative (OPHI) in 2010.
(ii) The basic philosophy and significance of MPI is that it is based on the idea that poverty is not unidimensional, and that it is rather multi-dimensional.
(iii) Multi-dimensional poverty is made up of several factors that constitute poor people's experience of deprivation such as health, education, Living standards, income, disempowerment, quality of work and threat from violence.

i) The area of food grains cultivated has increased.
ii) India has attained self sufficiency in food grain production,
iii) The increase in food grain production led to technological inventions in the dairy, poultry and fisheries sectors.
iv) It has resulted in eight fold increase in milk production and 40 fold increase in fish production.

The FCI had built huge storage godowns and built buffer stocks of food grain were stored during the harvest season to be distributed all through the year.

(i) Nutrition plays a crucial role in human health and well being.
(ii) A large number of children are stunted.
(iii) A substantial number of children and women are underweight, anemic and suffer from micro nutrient deficiencies.
(iv) The government at the centre and states governments have been channelising substantial resources into various health and nutrition schemes and programmes
(v) TamilNadu has played a pioneering role in bringing about significant changes in the health and nutritional status of children under six years of age, pregnant women, lactating mothers and adolescent girls.
(vi) The performance of the ICDS scheme and the Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Nutritious MeaI programme (PTMGRNMP) in TamilNadu are considered one of the best in the country.
Malnutrition free Tamilnadu:
(i) The Government of TamilNadu's policy for "A Malnutrition free Tam Nadu", guides the states long term multi-sectoral strategy for eliminating Malnutrition.
(ii) The goal is "reducing human Malnutrition of all types to the levels of best performing countries".
(iii) The government of Tamil Nadu is working towards the policy of 'A malnutrition-free TamilNadu'.
(iv) Its goal is reducing human malnutrition of all types to the levels of best forming countries.
(v) The ICDS has been expanded to unreached areas also.
(vi) ICDS is now considered to be one of the world's largest programmes of its kind.
The PTMGRNMP:
(i) The PTMGRNMP is considered to be the largest moon meal programme in the country.
(ii) It is combating malnutrition among children, increasing primary school enrolment and reducing dropout rates.
(iii) Other states in the country have modelled their noon meal programmes along the lines of Tamil Nadu's pioneering efforts.

i) TamilNadu has adopted an Universal PDS the rest of the states in India had a targeted PDS.
a) Universal PDS:
i) Under Universal PDS all the family ration card holders are entitled to the supplies from PDS.
b) Targeted PDS:
i) In the targeted PDS the beneficiaries are identified based on certain criteria and given their entitlements, leaving out the rest. Both the union and the state governments subsidised the supplies distributed through PDS.
ii) The level and quantum of subsidy also varied across states,
iii) Subsequently the National Food Security Act (NFSA) was passed by the Indian Parliament in 2013.
iv) The NFSA covers 50% of urban households and 75% of the rural households.
v) These households are known as priority households identified based on a set of criteria.
vi) Priority households of this country now have the right to food supply through PDS.
vii) The Union government supplies rice at the rate of 3 per kg, wheat at the rate of 2 kg, and millets at the rate of 1 per kg under NFSA.
viii) Tamil Nadu continues to have the universal system of PDS and supplies rice at free of cost to all card holders
ix) Tamil Nadu has issued bio-metric smart family cards.

i) Minimum support price is a price fixed by an expert group for a particular crop by considering various costs involved in the cultivation of that crop,
ii) After announcing the MSP the state will open procurement centers in places where these crops are widely grown.
iii) However, the farmers are free to sell in the open market if they get a better price for their crop produce.
iv) On the other hand if the open market price is lower than the MSP, the farmers would get an assured price (the MSP) by selling their produce to the FCI.
v) Minimum support price (MSP) for the crops were announced at the beginning of the season and the state procured the harvested grains through the Food Corporation of India (FCI).

a) Raising the productivity of Inputs:
One of the important objectives of India's agricultural policy is to improve the productivity of inputs so purchased like HYV seeds, fertilisers, pesticides, irrigation projects etc.
b) Raising value-added per hectare :
Agricultural policy is to increase per hectare value-added rather than raising physical output by raising the productivity of agriculture in general and productivity of small and marginal holding in particular.
c) Protecting the interests of poor farmers:
Agricultural policy in proposed to protect the interests of poor and marginal farmers by abolishing intermediaries through land reforms, expanding in institutional credit support to poor farmers, etc.
d) Modernising agricultural sector:
Here the policy support includes the introduction of modern technology in agricultural operations and application of improved agricultural inputs like HYV seeds, fertilizers, etc.
e) Environmental degradation :
Agricultural policy of India has set another objective to check environmental degradation of natural base of Indian agriculture,
f) Removing bureaucratic obstacles:
The policy has set another objective to reserve bureaucratic obstacles on the farmer's co- operative societies and self help institutions so that they can work independently.