Nutritional security is a condition when people at all times, are having physical, social and economic access to sufficient, healthy and nutritious food that meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (Ramaswamy, 2017). The number of people (FAO, 2021) affected by hunger worldwide under the shadow of Covid-19 pandemic increased in the year 2020. In addition, after remaining virtually unchanged from the year 2014-2019, the number of undernourished people climbed from 8.4 % to 9.9 % in the year 2020. Out of the total undernourished people of 768 million in 2020 in the world, 418 million live in Asia, 282 million in Africa, 60 million in Latin America and Caribbean. In recent years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic nearly 4.1 million Indians have lost their jobs which results in purchasing less food, substituting nutritious food with less nutritious alternatives and decrease in the number of meals eaten on a day-to-day basis. The pandemic could further intensify the existing problem of malnutrition among women and children. This study uses secondary sources and it highlights the initiatives the government undertook to overcome the nutritional insecurities and the challenges faced in the country in relation to food insecurity.