On the 46th year of the establishment of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), the district branch of All Punjab Anganwari Mulazam Union staged a dharna in front of the local SDM office and submitted memoranda of demands to the Centre and the state government through officials.
Malnutrition has been a persistent challenge, particularly among the vulnerable sections of children and women in the country. India had, relatively, some of the worst numbers for malnutrition in the world.The first National Family Health Survey (NFHS) in 1992-1993 found that India was one of the worst performing countries on child health indicators. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has consistently aimed at addressing the malaise of malnutrition through systemic interventions and programmes such as Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), including Supplementary Nutrition Programme, providing health supplementary meals / fortified ration to the most vulnerable, namely, children under the age of 6 years, pregnant women, lactating mothers and adolescent girls. In the endeavour to tackle malnutrition in a targeted manner, the PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nutrition or POSHAN Abhiyan was launched in 2018, with an aim to address issues of undernutrition, stunting, An
The massive financial irregularities over BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh's take-home ration scheme, a story that NDTV broke last week, has brought into focus the issue of malnourishment of children, which is yet to be tackled by the state government.