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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Money for nutrition not well spent -Swati Mathur

Money for nutrition not well spent -Swati Mathur

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published Published on Aug 9, 2014   modified Modified on Aug 9, 2014
-The Times of India


Women And Children In State Are Malnourished To A Shameful Extent

Lucknow: Malnutrition among women and children remains abysmally high in Uttar Pradesh despite several thousand crores spent annually on supplementary nutrition programmes.

According to data kept by the Union ministry of women and child development, UP is among the worst performing states in the area of underweight and malnutrition among children between the age group of 0 to 6 years. Ironically, the poor performance persists despite a consecutive annual fund infusion of nearly Rs 3,000 crore towards the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme to which both the Centre and the state governments contribute.

Until December 2013, UP stood fourth from the bottom on child nutrition rates, only falling behind Bihar Andhra Pradesh and Daman and Diu.

According to the state's own records, 35.5% of the total children who were identified as beneficiaries of the supplementary nutrition programme under ICDS were underweight, with 62,728 falling in the Grade III and IV ­ severely malnourished ­ categories.

The UP figures are also considerably higher than the national average of 28.4%. At present UP has more than two crore children identified as beneficiaries of the supplementary nutrition programme (SNP), while nearly 50 lakh pregnant and lactating mothers are covered under ICDS.

Malnutrition

Kicked off in 1975 and aimed at improving nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years, ensuring their psychological, physical and social development and reducing the incidence of mortality , morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout among children, the ICDS scheme has failed to keep rising malnutrition cases under check. In the 12th Five Year Plan, the Centre made a budget allocation of Rs 1.24 lakh crore for strengthening and restructuring the ICDS Scheme. For a scheme aimed at raising nutrition standards among the children, more than 70% of the total allocation is spent on administrative expenses ­ salaries to contractual employees, on general expenses and training purposes, while only about 30% of actually spent on providing nourishment to the intended beneficiaries. In Ghoerni village of Shamli district, village elder Yogendra Kumar said, "Every single day, inedible khichdi is delivered to the three aanganwadi centres in our village. The intended beneficiaries are not aware of such a programme and those who know, find the food inedible. Ultimately, the khichdi is fed to the cattle everyday."


The Times of India, 7 August, 2014, http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31813&articlexml=Money-for-nutrition-not-well-spent-07082014006005


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