Lok Sabha Question No. 5616 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-04-04
Subject: Aadhaar Registration of Children
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Eswarasamy K

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5616

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.04.2025

## AADHAAR REGISTRATION OF CHILDREN

## 5616. SHRI ESWARASAMY K:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

(a) the details of children below the age of five, who have Aadhaar registration, Statewise including Tamil Nadu;

(b) the steps taken by the Ministry to include more children under the Integrated Child Development  Service  (ICDS)  Scheme,  curb  leakages  and  bring  transparency  in  its delivery system; and

(c) whether the Ministry is planning to replace the provisions of dry ration under ICDS with cash transfers, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SAVITRI THAKUR)

(a)  &  (b)    Mission  Saksham  Anganwadi  and  Poshan  2.0  [earlier  known  as  Integrated  Child Development Services  (ICDS)  Scheme]  aims  to  address  the  challenge  of  child  malnutrition  and maternal under-nutrition through proper nutrition content and its delivery. It further aims to create conditions  and  a  convergent  eco-system  to  develop  practices  that  nurture  health,  wellness  and immunity. Under this Mission, there is a provision of Supplementary Nutrition for children in the age group of 6 months to 6 years. State wise details of aadhaar verified children in the age group of 6month to 6 years are placed at Annexure.

This  Ministry  continuously  monitors  the  implementation  of  Mission  2.0  through  sustained engagement with the States/UTs through Video Conferences, meetings and through Online Poshan Tracker System.

Ministry has issued guidelines to all States/UTs on 13.01.2021 to streamline several aspects such as quality assurance, roles and responsibilities of duty holders, procedure for procurement, integrating AYUSH concepts and data management and monitoring through 'Poshan Tracker' for transparency, efficiency and accountability in the delivery of Supplementary Nutrition. Some of the benefits of Poshan Tracker are as follows:

- (i) All the beneficiaries registered in Poshan Tracker are authenticated through Aadhar verification.
- (ii)  All the beneficiaries upon registration in Poshan Tracker are informed, through SMS, about the services which can be availed by them through Anganwdi Platform, thereby creating ownership of citizens,
- (iii)  Further, on delivery of THR, SMS alerts along with Poshan Helpline details are being sent on the registered mobile number of beneficiaries. If beneficiary does not receive THR, she/he can raise the complaint on Poshan Helpline.
- (iv)  The Physical Records of Growth Monitoring have been replaced by auto generated monthly report in Poshan Tracker. These reports can be downloaded and used in the review meeting by the supervisors.
- (v)    IEC  material  on  relevant  topics  is  made  available  digitally  on  Poshan  Tracker  thereby eliminating the need of carrying bulky IEC material.
- (vi)   All  the  home  visits  are  now  auto  scheduled  in  Poshan  Tracker  for  which  she  also  receives reminders. Report on completed and pending Home Visit is available in Poshan Tracker.
- (vii)  With 'Poshan Tracker', real time data on malnutrition indicators is available every month. As compared  to  NFHS  (sample  size  of  approx  6.1  lakh  households),  Poshan  Tracker  consistently measures  approx.  7-8  crore  children  each  month  revealing  the  real  time  nutritional  status  of beneficiaries.
- (viii)  Poshan Tracker has the provision for auto calculation of eligibility for the incentives based on Growth Monitoring, Home Visits and opening of AWCs.
- (ix)    A new report has been added in Poshan Tracker in the form of Fact sheet. Poshan Tracker generates  various  reports  such  as  Growth  monitoring,  Anganwadi  centres  open,  attendance  of children each day, infrastructure details at AWC etc. These reports are available at all the levels including, supervisors, CDPO and DPOs which resulted into improved administrative supervision and effective implementation of the scheme including targeted approach for malnourished children.

Under Mission Poshan 2.0, Anganwadi workers (AWWs) have been technologically empowered with  the  provision  of  smartphones  for  efficient  monitoring  and  service  delivery.  The  mobile application Poshan Tracker has digitized the physical registers used by Anganwadi workers. This has improved  the quality of their work  while simultaneously enabling them  to do real-time implementation & monitoring.

- (c)    No such proposal is under consideration.

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## Statement referred to in reply to Parts (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Un-Starred Question No. 5616 to be answered on 04.04.2025 regarding 'Aadhaar Registration of Children'

State Wise details of aadhaar verified children on Poshan Tracker as on 01.04.2025

| S No.   | State                            | Children 6 Months-3 Years   | Children 3 Years-6 Years   | Total       |
|---------|----------------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------------------|-------------|
| 1.      | Andhra Pradesh                   | 13,04,247                   | 11,49,108                  | 24,53,355   |
| 2.      | Arunachal Pradesh                | 31,405                      | 51,446                     | 82,851      |
| 3.      | Assam                            | 10,29,574                   | 15,96,061                  | 26,25,635   |
| 4.      | Bihar                            | 38,71,145                   | 53,80,319                  | 92,51,464   |
| 5.      | Chhattisgarh                     | 9,87,369                    | 11,11,572                  | 20,98,941   |
| 6.      | Goa                              | 31,481                      | 14,733                     | 46,214      |
| 7.      | Gujarat                          | 13,69,739                   | 15,02,958                  | 28,72,697   |
| 8.      | Haryana                          | 6,95,875                    | 9,49,787                   | 16,45,662   |
| 9.      | Himachal Pradesh                 | 2,02,917                    | 2,36,667                   | 4,39,584    |
| 10.     | Jharkhand                        | 12,03,856                   | 14,84,426                  | 26,88,282   |
| 11.     | Karnataka                        | 17,33,693                   | 17,90,007                  | 35,23,700   |
| 12.     | Kerala                           | 7,03,963                    | 10,37,624                  | 17,41,587   |
| 13.     | Madhya Pradesh                   | 26,43,113                   | 35,84,610                  | 62,27,723   |
| 14.     | Maharashtra                      | 23,60,797                   | 32,58,658                  | 56,19,455   |
| 15.     | Manipur                          | 93,075                      | 1,64,076                   | 2,57,151    |
| 16.     | Meghalaya                        | 1,31,530                    | 2,20,737                   | 3,52,267    |
| 17.     | Mizoram                          | 40,208                      | 60,591                     | 1,00,799    |
| 18.     | Nagaland                         | 35,285                      | 64,018                     | 99,303      |
| 19.     | Odisha                           | 14,11,628                   | 18,05,759                  | 32,17,387   |
| 20.     | Punjab                           | 6,20,609                    | 7,42,844                   | 13,63,453   |
| 21.     | Rajasthan                        | 17,77,875                   | 16,70,133                  | 34,48,008   |
| 22.     | Sikkim                           | 11,179                      | 16,969                     | 28,148      |
| 23.     | Tamil Nadu                       | 16,71,393                   | 17,83,945                  | 34,55,338   |
| 24.     | Telangana                        | 9,04,830                    | 8,63,692                   | 17,68,522   |
| 25.     | Tripura                          | 1,12,906                    | 1,66,295                   | 2,79,201    |
| 26.     | Uttar Pradesh                    | 90,89,109                   | 95,92,704                  | 1,86,81,813 |
| 27.     | Uttarakhand                      | 3,58,105                    | 2,48,335                   | 6,06,440    |
| 28.     | West Bengal                      | 31,27,303                   | 40,17,496                  | 71,44,799   |
| 29.     | Andaman &Nicobar Islands         | 6,727                       | 3,367                      | 10,094      |
| 30.     | Dadra &Nagar Haveli - Daman &Diu | 15,666                      | 14,162                     | 29,828      |
| 31.     | Delhi                            | 3,24,392                    | 1,44,483                   | 4,68,875    |
| 32.     | J&K                              | 3,41,039                    | 4,14,441                   | 7,55,480    |
| 33.     | Ladakh                           | 7,770                       | 8,439                      | 16,209      |
| 34.     | Lakshadweep                      | 2,731                       | 968                        | 3,699       |
| 35.     | Puducherry                       | 22,902                      | 5,003                      | 27,905      |
| 36.     | UT-Chandigarh                    | 16,239                      | 17,575                     | 33,814      |
|         | Total                            | 3,82,91,675                 | 4,51,74,008                | 8,34,65,683 |