Ghosh, S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9373-9570
Thomas, T. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-6076
Kurpad, A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7998-2438
Sachdev, H. S. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4956-9391
Article History
Received: 2 December 2021
Revised: 27 September 2022
Accepted: 28 September 2022
First Online: 24 October 2022
Competing interests
: HSS designed the draft protocol of the CNNS with consultancy support from the UNICEF, India. HSS and AVK were members of the Technical Advisory Committee of the CNNS, constituted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of India, to oversee its conduct and analysis. HSS is a member of the World Health Organization Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Subgroup on Diet and Health. HSS and AVK are members of Expert Groups of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Nutrition and Child Health, and the National Technical Board on Nutrition of the Niti Ayog, Government of India.
: No separate ethical approval was required for this secondary analysis. The CNNS was conducted according to the guidelines laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki and all procedures involving human subjects were approved by the Population Council’s International Review Board (New York, USA) and ethics committee of Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (Chandigarh, India).