Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is the flagship program of Government of India for the holistic development of children. The beneficiaries of the programme are children below six years of age and pregnant women & lactating mothers. With a view to bridge the gaps in the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) delivery, Ministry of Women & Child Development is implementing ICDS Systems Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement Project (ISSNIP), in 162 high malnutrition burden districts of 8 States viz. Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh covering 3.68 lakh Aanganwadi Centres. Information and Communication Technology enabled Real Time Monitoring (ICT-RTM) of ICDS has been instituted in the Restructured ISSNIP for improving the service delivery in ICDS and ensuring better monitoring and supervision of ICDS implementation at 1,00,000 Anganwadi Centres. It is based on ICDS-Common Application Software (ICDS-CAS) developed especially for this program thereby equipping Aanganwadi Workers with a Smart Phone preinstalled with ICDS-CAS and Sector Supervisors with a Tablet preinstalled with ICDS-CAS. ICT-RTM would help strengthen the ICDS capacity to deliver nutrition services in a better way.
During 2016-17, 6 complaints (three from State of Uttar Pradesh, one from State of Uttarakhand, one from State of Chandigarh and one from State of Orissa) concerning quality of Take Home Ration (THR) were received by the Government. Since Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and the overall management & monitoring of the implementation of the ICDS Scheme is done by the concerned State Government, the complaints have been forwarded to the concerned State Governments for necessary action.
No proposal has been finalised to make conditional cash transfer in place of Take Home Ration.
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