Ministry of Women and Child Development
More than Rs 10,000 cr released to States/UTs in the current financial year till date under ICDS scheme
Posted On:
22 DEC 2017 6:07PM by PIB Delhi
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme was launched in 1975 with the following objectives:
(i) To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years;
(ii) To lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child;
(iii) To reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout;
(iv) To achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development; and
(v) To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education.
The package of following six services are provided under the ICDS scheme:-
i) Supplementary nutrition,
ii) Pre-school non-formal education,
iii) Nutrition & health education,
iv) Immunization,
v) Health check-up and
vi) Referral services
Three of the six services, i.e. immunization, health check-up and referral services, are related to health and are provided through National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) & Public Health Infrastructure.
The funds allocated/released to and utilized by States/UTs under ICDS Scheme during last three years and current year is given below:
(Rs. in Lakhs)
|
Year
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2014-15
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2015-16
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2016-17
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2017-18
|
|
Category
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Funds released
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Exp. Reported by States including state share
|
Funds released
|
Exp. Reported by States including state share
|
Funds released
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Exp. Reported by States including state share
|
Funds released (upto 30.11.2017)
|
|
Total
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1658181.93
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2354205.31
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1543893.15
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2099327.45
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1443031.60
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1958164.95
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1082396.39
|
The Anganwadi Services Scheme was universalized during 2008-09 and all the 7076 projects and 14 lakh Anganwadi Centres have been allocated to the States/UTs. Out of these 7075 Projects and 13,59,298 AWCs are operational.
The statement indicating the number of Children and Women beneficiaries of the Scheme including SC and ST categories is given below:
No of Beneficiaries of supplementary nutrition under ICDS Scheme as on 30-09-2017
Based on State consolidated report sent by State Government and information sent in templates by State Governments/UT Administration.(MP Operational updated as on 19-12-2017 by email
This information was given by Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Dr. Virendra Kumar in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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