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- Centre seeks to revamp the ICDS scheme in urban areas.
- NITI Aayog will develop draft policy, which will be circulated to the Ministries for consultations.
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
- The Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) Scheme providing for supplementary nutrition, immunization and pre-school education to the children is a popular flagship programme of the government.
- Launched in 1975, it is one of the world’s largest programmes providing for an integrated package of services for the holistic development of the child. ICDS is a centrally sponsored scheme implemented by state governments and union territories.
Objectives
- To provide nutritious food
- To reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout.
- To lay the foundations for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child.
- To develop children and different departments concerned and their activities related issues should be taken care.
- 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.
- Immunization
- Supplementary nutrition
- Health checkup
- Referral services
- Pre-school education(Non-Formal)
- Nutrition and Health information
Sub schemes
- Anganwadi Services
- Scheme for Adolescent Girls
- Child Protection Services
- National Creche Scheme Revamp
- Higher population density, transportation challenges and migration.
- Children in urban areas were overweight and obese
- Malnutrition among children in urban India.
- It found a higher prevalence of obesity because of relative prosperity and lifestyle patterns
- According to government data from 2018, of the 14 lakh anganwadis across the country there are only 1.38 lakh anganwadis in urban areas.
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