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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CAG report punches holes in ICDS programme

CAG report punches holes in ICDS programme

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published Published on Mar 6, 2013   modified Modified on Mar 6, 2013
-The Times of India

A decade after a CAG audit revealed how a scheme to help infants and young children was failing, a fresh report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday says the number of malnourished children exceeds the 40% mark in 10 states as on March, 2011.

The audit of the flagship Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) says 49% children in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar (82%), Haryana (43%), Jharkhand (40%), Odisha (50%), Rajasthan (43%), UP (41%) and Delhi (50%) are moderately to severely malnourished.

The number of severely malnourished children exceeded 1% of total weighed children in eight states, including Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand and West Bengal. The figure was a high 3% and 4% in Maharashtra and West Bengal, respectively.

The audit, covering 2006-07 to 2010-11, says 52% of anganwadis surveyed lack toilets, 32% don't have drinking water and reveals 33%-45% gap between eligible beneficiaries and actual recipients of supplementary nutrition.

Funds allocated for ICDS components are being diverted for paying salaries as against a release of Rs 1,753 crore to 13 states in 2008-09 and 15 states in 2009-11, the actual expenditure was Rs 2,853 crore.

Another Rs 57 crore was diverted to activities not permitted under ICDS in five states, and Rs 70 crore was parked in deposits blocking funds.

Worryingly, while there was no data in six states on beneficiaries of pre-school kits who joined mainstream education, in five states the shortfall in the number of children who took up formal education ranged between 7% and 30%.

Ten years after reporting ICDS goals were not being met as health status of beneficiaries was not improving, CAG found functional weighing machines for babies and adults were not available in 26%-58% — depending on the years surveyed - in test-checked aganwadis.

Around 61% aganwadis did not have their own buildings and 25% were functioning from semi-pucca or open or partially covered spaces. Medicine kits are not available in 33%-49% of aganwadis that formed the sample.

The shortfall under various categories of training ranged from 19% to 58% of targets and the supplementary nutrition was under-funded by 15%-36% between 2006 and 2011.

Some 33%-47% children were not weighed for monitoring their growth from 2006-07 to 2010-11. Under the wheat-based nutrition programme, the Centre could allocate 78% of the food grain demanded by states. The actual off-take by states was only 66% of the total demanded by them.

The Times of India, 6 March, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/CAG-report-punches-holes-in-ICDS-programme/articleshow/18822691.cms


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