survey began in march 2016 and unicef hopes to complete data collection in 12 states including rajasthan by december 2016the central government has formed a technical advisory group to monitor the data and quality of work the committee members are from unicef the ministry of statistics and progarmme implementation it also has leading experts in the fields of nutrition psychology biochemistry statistics and samplingthis project is completely funded by aditya and megha mittals personal philanthropy work they are son and daughterinlaw of laxmi n mittal chairman of arcelormittal the population council an ngo working for building research capabilities in developing countries has been hired as the lead agency for the survey the srl lab is providing all lab support while the indian institute of health management and research iihmr is providing ground support for the survey