Mission Vatsalya

Mission Vatsalya or Vatsalya Maatri Amrit Kosh was launched by the ministry of health and family welfare. It is a scheme to promote breastfeeding and thereby reduce infant mortality. Under this mission, a national human milk bank and lactation counselling centre was established in Delhi. Recently, the ministry of women and child development classified all of its major schemes under 3 umbrella schemes: Mission Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti.