Jharkhand's I.C.D.S. survey

The story: Surveys have shown that more than 55% did not receive Supplementary Nutrition under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Jharkhand

Jharkhand's I.C.D.S. survey

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• The story: Surveys have shown that more than 55% did not receive Supplementary Nutrition under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Jharkhand even once in the first six months of 2021.
• Vulnerability of Jharkhand: As per National Family Health Survey-4 data, every second child in the state is stunted and underweight and every third child is affected by stunting and every 10th child is affected from severe wasting and around 70% children are anemic.
• ICDS: The Umbrella Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a centrally sponsored scheme implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. It was launched in 1975. It has six schemes -

1. Anganwadi Services Scheme - It is a unique programme for early childhood care and development, and beneficiaries under the Scheme are children in the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers. It provides a package of six services namely supplementary nutrition, pre-school non-formal education, nutrition & health education, immunization, health check-up and referral services.
2. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana - It provides cash incentive amounting to Rs.5,000/- in three installments directly to the Bank/Post Office Account of Pregnant Women and Lactating Mother (PW&LM) in DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) Mode during pregnancy and lactation in response to individual fulfilling specific conditions.
3. National Creche Scheme - It provides day care facilities to children of age group of 6 months to 6 years of working women. The facilities are provided for seven and half hours a day for 26 days in a month. Children are provided with supplementary nutrition, early childcare education, and health and sleeping facilities.
4. Scheme for Adolescent Girls - It aims at out of school girls in the age group 11-14, to empower and improve their social status through nutrition, life skills and home skills. The scheme has nutritional and non nutritional components which include nutrition; iron and folic acid supplementation; health check up and referral service; nutrition and health education; mainstreaming out of school girls to join formal schooling bridge course/ skill training; life skill education, home management etc,; counselling/ guidance on accessing public services.
5. Child Protection Scheme - It aims to contribute to the improvement and well-being of children in difficult circumstances, as well as, reduction of vulnerabilities to situations and actions that lead to abuse, neglect, exploitation, abandonment and separation of children from parents.
6. POSHAN Abhiyaan - It targets to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight babies by reducing mal-nutrition/undernutrition, anemia among young children as also, focus on adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers.

• Objectives of ICDS:
1. To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years.
2. To lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child.
3. To achieve effective coordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development.
4. To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child.
• Similar schemes: There are some more -

1. National Health Mission (NHM) - Launched in 2013, it subsumed the National Rural Health Mission and the National Urban Health Mission. It is being implemented by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare. The main programmatic components include health system strengthening in rural and urban areas for - Reproductive-Maternal- Neonatal-Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCH+A), and Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases.
2. Mid Day Meal Scheme - It was launched in 1995 as a centrally sponsored scheme, and provides that every child within the age group of six to fourteen years studying in classes I to VIII who enrols and attends the school shall be provided with a hot cooked meal, free of charge every day except on school holidays. It comes under the Education Ministry’s Department of School Education and Literacy.
3. National Nutrition Strategy - The Strategy aims to reduce all forms of undernutrition by 2030, with a focus on the most vulnerable and critical age groups. It also aims to assist in achieving the targets identified as part of the Sustainable Development Goals related to nutrition and health, and has been released by the NITI Aayog.

 

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