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The government must identify districts with high prevalence of malnourishment to ensure concrete actions on the ground, a parliamentary panel report has urged.
It has also recommended establishing a ‘Malnutrition Eradication Authority’, latest by June 30, 2021.
In order to ensure that food packets and hot cooked meals under the anganwadi scheme reach the intended beneficiaries, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women and Children, Youth and Sports has mooted that the Ministry “set up a vigilant monitoring mechanism”.
The report also noted that the government is introducing a new technology to improve deliverables under the Poshan Abhiyan, called the Poshan Tracker. This will replace the previous technology being implemented by the government since 2017 with the help of a loan from World Bank.
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