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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Demonetisation effect: Cash-starved anganwadis struggle to feed children -Subodh Varma

Demonetisation effect: Cash-starved anganwadis struggle to feed children -Subodh Varma

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published Published on Dec 24, 2016   modified Modified on Dec 24, 2016
-The Times of India

There is a trace of pride in Nisha Chaurasiya's voice as she complains of how she and her co-workers in an anganwadi in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh struggled to provide food to babies and children, and to expectant women, since demonetisation took effect on November 8.

"The self-help groups borrowed money from everybody, stood in bank queues, pleaded with officials and even spent from their own meagre savings to feed the children and expecting mothers," she says.

"We have managed somehow, though the food may have fallen short."

Chaurasiya is one of the 14 lakh anganwadi workers in the country running the world's largest infant and child nutrition program called Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS). In a country where more than half the children below six years are anaemic and over a third wasted (weight lower in proportion to height), the program is a life line. But the sudden ban on high value currency notes+ left the ICDS network floundering and kids hungry.

November saw a six per cent decline in the number of children drawing nutrition from the anganwadis compared to the previous month, according to monthly data put out by the ICDS which is run by the women and child development ministry. That translates to nearly 16 lakh children who did not get the prescribed cereals and vegetables. They would also not have had their health checkup done and perhaps skipped immunisation shots.

Compared to average monthly attendance of children in anganwadis for the past eight months, the decline in November is a chilling 16 percent for boys and 14 percent for girls. That's about 23 lakh boys and 19 lakh girls. Part of the reason is a continued squeeze on funds for the program. This was hugely magnified due to the currency ban.

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The Times of India, 24 December, 2016, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/demonetisation-effect-cash-starved-anganwadis-struggle-to-feed-children/articleshow/56149172.cms


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