In Nepal, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has said that the government of Nepal has recognized that chronic malnutrition is a major nutrition problem in the country. Addressing the function launching the multi -sector nutrition plan in Kathmandu today, Mr Bhattarai said due to the potential negative impact on malnutrition on economic development and human population it must be urgently addressed nationally.

Vice Chairman National Planning Commission Dependra Bahadur Kshtery said that while there has been progress in the control of micronutrient deficiency in Nepal the reduction in general malnutrition has been very slow.

The National Planning Commission along with the Ministry of Agriculture and Development, Ministry of Education, Federal Affairs and Local Development, Health and Population and Urban development developed the multi-sector nutrition plan for accelerated reduction of maternal and child under nutrition. Under the plan the government aims to reduce chronic malnutrition by more than twenty per cent over the five year period .

The plan will initially be implemented in twelve districts in the most disadvantaged areas and gradually scale up the program to cover all the seventy-five districts. According to Demographic Health Survey 2011 , forty-one per cent children suffer from chronic malnutrition in Nepal also known as stunting which causes serious lifelong and irreversible problems.