The recent Government of India recommendation for monthly length/height measurements by anganwadi workers promises to be a disaster in its current form and might lead to a severe derailing of the existing system of data collection and management, leading to further chaos and misreporting on malnutrition.
The recent National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) data from 22 states and union territories (UTs) of India has raised major concerns with the progress on the reduction of malnutrition in the country and has received extensive attention in the press and media. This has also served, once again, to highlight the important role that the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme plays in the health, nutrition, and well-being of women, children, and adolescents. The programme is widely held as an intervention that appears to be well-functioning and worthy of further investment, but at the same time it is a system that requires far greater coverage, quality, and impact t
Training cum Awareness programme held at Kupwara
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Uttarakhand govt working to enhance capacity of Anganwadi workers
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WCD ministry underutilising its schemes, need to use funds: Parliamentary panel
The committee further recommended that the the ministry should chalk out a blue print in coordination with the Ministry of Education to modernise Anganwadis and strengthen them.
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NEW DELHI: Notinbg that the Women and Child Development Ministry is grossly underutilising its schemes and no results were seen at the ground level, a parliamentary standing committee has asked it to use the allocated funds to the fullest extent and strive to achieve results at the grass-root level.
The committee, in its deliberation, noted that a new trend of savings in the Demand for Grants documents of the Ministry, for instance, in 2019-20, Rs 1500 crore were saved in Poshan Abhiyaan scheme, for One Stop Centre scheme, Rs 274 crore were provided and approximately Rs 136 crors i.e., 50 per cent of the fund allocated were saved ; in Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Rs 280 crore w