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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Jharkhand 3rd among states in child development

Jharkhand 3rd among states in child development

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published Published on Feb 18, 2013   modified Modified on Feb 18, 2013
-The Times of India

Jharkhand has ranked third among all states in implementation of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) and delivery of services and monitoring. Mridula Sinha, principal secretary, state social welfare department, said the most important part of the whole process was monitoring the 40,000 anganwadi centres. Progress was reviewed during frequent visits to the centres or sometimes on telephone.

"Focus was given more on weaker centres," said Sinha.

The ranking was done by the Central Monitoring Unit of National Institute of Public Cooperation and Development (NIPPCCD) under the ministry of women and child development for 2012.

The evaluation was made on the basis of 30 indicators in six areas - infrastructure, training, staff profile, service delivery, monitoring and community mobilization. Infrastructure included percentage of anganwadis with pucca building, drinking water and toilet facilities and cooking space. Training included number of groomed anganwadi sevikas, supervisors and community development project officers (CDPOs). Profile of staff referred to average qualification of anganwadi workers and the number of posts filled.

An important part of the evaluation was service delivery that referred to the percentage of anganwadi sevikas distributing supplementary nutrition, growth monitoring, percentage of children having pre-school education, number of adolescent girls being given iron folic acid tablets and who received counselling, percentage of pregnant women immunized. and received anti natal heck up etc

Monitoring indicators included CDPOs visiting anganwadi centres and percentage of ICDS projects involving panchayati raj institutions. Though the state ranked third in service delivery and monitoring, its performance was not impressive in infrastructure where it ranked 11th and community mobilization (22nd).

"The emphasis now is on building infrastructure for which (the assistance of) 13th Finance Commission, the ministry of social welfare and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act Fund (NREGA) will be taken to construct building for the anganwadi," said Sinha. Apart from these we tried training of many supervisors and the anganwadi workers for early childhood learning .

"The panchayati raj institution members need to be involved and in the next series we have decided to train them. We are also training anganwadi workers for early childhood learning. But more needs to be done," she said.

Job Zachariah, Unicef's state head, said the achievement is praiseworthy but more remains to be achieved. "If we see the ranking of other states, they are lagging behind from us, like Bihar which was ranked 22nd and Uttar Pradesh (19th) and many other states in North India," If the total points compared between Kerela and Jharkhand there is not much difference as Kerela got 0.78 points and our state got 0.76 points,"he said.

Unicef has provided technical support and helped in capacity building like training anganwadi workers, CDPOs and supervisors.

The Times of India, 18 February, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Jharkhand-3rd-among-states-in-child-development/articleshow/18550922.cms


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