Lok Sabha Question No. 1031 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-08
Subject: Integrated Child Development Services Scheme
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Kalaben Mohanbhai Delkar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1031

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.12.2023

## 'INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES SCHEME'

- 1031:  SHRIMATI DELKAR KALABEN MOHANBHAI:

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

- (a) the total number of beneficiaries under Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in various States of the country;
- (b) the details of the funds utilized under this scheme till now, State/UT-wise;
- (c) the steps taken/being taken by the Government to strengthen this scheme and make it more effective; and
- (d) the details of Dadra and Nagar Haveli in this regard, district-wise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a)  The ICDS scheme has been restructured as Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0. The total number of beneficiaries under  Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 in various States/UTs of the country is placed at Annexure A .
- (b)  The detail of the funds released under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0  during the current financial year is placed at Annexure B .
- (c)  This Ministry has taken several measures under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, for strengthening the scheme. The details are as follows:
1.  The cost norms for construction of Anganwadi Centres in convergence with MGNREGS have been revised from @7 lakh per AWC to @12 Lakh per AWC
2.  The unit cost approved for construction of toilet has been raised from Rs.12,000/- to Rs. 36000/- per AWC and for drinking water provisioning the approved cost has been raised from Rs.10,000/- to Rs. 17000/- per AWC to be shared by Centre and States/UTs as per cost sharing ratio.
3.  Directions  have  been  issued  to  States/UTs  to  co-locate  Anganwadi Centres, which are running on rent without sufficient infrastructure, at the nearby Primary Schools, where space is available.
4.  Under Saksham Anganwadi, 2 lakh AWCs @ 40,000 AWCs per year shall be upgraded as Smart Anganwadi for improved nutrition delivery and for early childhood care and development
5.  Keeping in view the importance of nutrition and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) services delivery, it has been decided to upgrade all Mini-Anganwadi Centres to regular Anganwadi Centres with additional Anganwadi Helper.
6.  Replacement policy for mobile phones and Growth Monitoring Devices at AWCs has been issued for improved monitoring and data inputs.
7.  Jan Andolan is carried out through the annual Rashtriya Poshan Maah celebrated in the month of September  and  Poshan  Pakhwada celebrated in March at scale across India. Till date, more than 90 crore Jan Andolan activities have been conducted across the country.
8.  First ever National protocol for Community Management of Malnutrition in  children  was  launched  jointly  by  the  Ministry  of  Women  and  Child Development and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare dated 10 th October 2023 for management of Severely Acutely Malnourished (SAM) children.
9.  The  Anganwadi  Protocol  for  Divyang  Children  was  launched  on  28 th November, 2023 to realize the commitment for strengthening Divyang children's overall access to improved well-being.
- (d) The details of beneficiaries in Dadra and Nagar Haveli is as follows:

| Districts          | Child 0m-6m   |   Child 6m-3y |   Child 3y-6y |   Pregnant woman |   Lactating mother |
|--------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|------------------|--------------------|
| Dadra Nagar Haveli | & 1622        |         10375 |          7148 |             3223 |               1716 |
| Daman              | 645           |          2835 |          1206 |             1308 |                687 |
| Diu                | 211           |          1181 |           600 |              252 |                207 |

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Annexure A

## INFORMATION  IN  RESPECT  TO  PART  (A)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 1031 DUE FOR 08.12.2023

(As per Poshan Tracker)

| State/UT                         |   Child 0m-6m |   Child 6m-3y |   Child 3y-6y |   Pregnant woman |   Lactating mother | SAG    |
|----------------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|------------------|--------------------|--------|
| Andaman& Nicobar Islands         |           560 |          7117 |          3333 |              851 |                656 | N/A    |
| Andhra Pradesh                   |         45380 |       1011041 |       1109103 |           132779 |              81224 | 14736  |
| Arunachal Pradesh                |          2626 |         33523 |         41288 |             2639 |               2584 | 14848  |
| Assam                            |        110858 |       1278820 |       1626883 |           172609 |             100572 | 159891 |
| Bihar                            |        197998 |       3895558 |       5592426 |           583227 |             282003 | 258944 |
| Chhattisgarh                     |        125322 |       1057353 |       1159140 |           205035 |             128531 | 128976 |
| Dadra &Nagar Haveli - Daman &Diu |          2478 |         14391 |          8954 |             4783 |               2610 | N/A    |
| Delhi                            |         52741 |        339116 |        173060 |            67049 |              53649 | N/A    |
| Goa                              |          4734 |         34669 |         18268 |             4865 |               5083 | N/A    |
| Gujarat                          |        197341 |       1526314 |       1553820 |           266698 |             206363 | 78207  |
| Haryana                          |         59801 |        730793 |        959050 |           128718 |              98934 | 18545  |
| Himachal Pradesh                 |         33498 |        226178 |        230168 |            41365 |              34885 | 17165  |
| J&K                              |         31247 |        322672 |        366115 |            42486 |              42292 | 20157  |
| Jharkhand                        |        132359 |       1438817 |       1455650 |           247175 |             153022 | 261919 |
| Karnataka                        |        121217 |       1675285 |       1615338 |           275152 |             159257 | 1686   |
| Kerala                           |         98635 |        818317 |       1112334 |           140585 |             113321 | 19352  |
| Ladakh                           |           653 |          7407 |          8803 |              783 |                854 | N/A    |
| Lakshadweep                      |           383 |          2822 |           810 |              374 |                353 | N/A    |
| Madhya Pradesh                   |        306868 |       2861859 |       3545764 |           512510 |             352120 | 154954 |
| Maharashtra                      |        335730 |       2793179 |       3352521 |           447494 |             372014 | 119365 |
| Manipur                          |          3719 |        101149 |        157836 |             6590 |               3942 | 52641  |
| Meghalaya                        |         13188 |        166196 |        231732 |            13506 |              11720 | 57187  |

| Mizoram       |    4090 |    47650 |    59662 |    6716 |    3907 | 23552   |
|---------------|---------|----------|----------|---------|---------|---------|
| Nagaland      |    4086 |    39844 |    64634 |    3462 |    4112 | 27347   |
| Odisha        |  172021 |  1552491 |  1835980 |  304057 |  187991 | 298346  |
| Puducherry    |    2484 |    22215 |     3976 |    3363 |    3329 | N/A     |
| Punjab        |   81559 |   622249 |   462910 |  108286 |   90442 | 30265   |
| Rajasthan     |  179726 |  2065976 |  1698640 |  376865 |  253486 | 46833   |
| Sikkim        |    1577 |    13177 |    16840 |    1688 |    1584 | 9462    |
| Tamil Nadu    |  221004 |  1745764 |  1524180 |  302193 |  238248 | 40777   |
| Telangana     |  111443 |   985117 |   826979 |  181620 |  117482 | 35330   |
| Tripura       |   11445 |   132330 |   168623 |   20965 |   12540 | 35552   |
| Chandigarh    |    2520 |    17039 |    21283 |    3309 |    2539 | N/A     |
| Uttar Pradesh | 1012126 |  9655653 |  8402229 | 1841302 | 1171917 | 267262  |
| Uttarakhand   |   40070 |   398018 |   222980 |   70605 |   52794 | 77196   |
| West Bengal   |  388221 |  3322942 |  4091635 |  610445 |  413789 | N/A     |
| Total         | 4109708 | 40963041 | 43722947 | 7132149 | 4760149 | 2270495 |

N/A-Scheme is not implemented.

Annexure B

## INFORMATION  IN  RESPECT  TO  PART  (B)  OF  LOK  SABHA  UN-STARRED QUESTION NO. 1031 DUE FOR 08.12.2023

| FUNDS RELEASED UNDER SAKSHAM ANGANWADI AND POSHAN 2.0 FOR THE YEAR 2023-24 (UPTO 08.12.2023)   | FUNDS RELEASED UNDER SAKSHAM ANGANWADI AND POSHAN 2.0 FOR THE YEAR 2023-24 (UPTO 08.12.2023)   | FUNDS RELEASED UNDER SAKSHAM ANGANWADI AND POSHAN 2.0 FOR THE YEAR 2023-24 (UPTO 08.12.2023)   |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| S.No                                                                                           | Name of State/UT                                                                               | Fund released (Rs. in lakhs)                                                                   |
| 1                                                                                              | 2                                                                                              | 3                                                                                              |
| 1ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                                | 1ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                                | 17072.27                                                                                       |
| 2BIHAR                                                                                         | 2BIHAR                                                                                         | 103694.73                                                                                      |
| 3CHHATTISGARH                                                                                  | 3CHHATTISGARH                                                                                  | 28634.89                                                                                       |
| 4GOA                                                                                           | 4GOA                                                                                           | 619.23                                                                                         |
| 5GUJARAT                                                                                       | 5GUJARAT                                                                                       | 22446.86                                                                                       |
| 6HARYANA                                                                                       | 6HARYANA                                                                                       | 11054.94                                                                                       |
| 7HIMACHAL PRADESH                                                                              | 7HIMACHAL PRADESH                                                                              | 16138.73                                                                                       |
| 8JAMMU &KASHMIR                                                                                | 8JAMMU &KASHMIR                                                                                | 37408.37                                                                                       |
| 9JHARKHAND                                                                                     | 9JHARKHAND                                                                                     | 33329.56                                                                                       |
| 10KARNATAKA                                                                                    | 10KARNATAKA                                                                                    | 73657.07                                                                                       |
| 11KERALA                                                                                       | 11KERALA                                                                                       | 18371.41                                                                                       |
| 12MADHYA PRADESH                                                                               | 12MADHYA PRADESH                                                                               | 73862.93                                                                                       |
| 13MAHARASHTRA                                                                                  | 13MAHARASHTRA                                                                                  | 117208.52                                                                                      |
| 14ODISHA                                                                                       | 14ODISHA                                                                                       | 59405.09                                                                                       |
| 15PUNJAB                                                                                       | 15PUNJAB                                                                                       | 15055.31                                                                                       |
| 16RAJASTHAN                                                                                    | 16RAJASTHAN                                                                                    | 71209.77                                                                                       |
| 17TAMIL NADU                                                                                   | 17TAMIL NADU                                                                                   | 43869.39                                                                                       |
| 18TELANGANA                                                                                    | 18TELANGANA                                                                                    | 11777.08                                                                                       |
| 19UTTAR PRADESH                                                                                | 19UTTAR PRADESH                                                                                | 145144.26                                                                                      |
| 20UTTARAKHAND                                                                                  | 20UTTARAKHAND                                                                                  | 15212.54                                                                                       |
| 21WEST BENGAL                                                                                  | 21WEST BENGAL                                                                                  | 63807.13                                                                                       |
| 22DELHI                                                                                        | 22DELHI                                                                                        | 8778.10                                                                                        |
| 23PUDUCHERRY                                                                                   | 23PUDUCHERRY                                                                                   | 408.72                                                                                         |
| 24ANDAMAN &NICOBAR                                                                             | 24ANDAMAN &NICOBAR                                                                             | 666.99                                                                                         |
| 25CHANDIGARH                                                                                   | 25CHANDIGARH                                                                                   | 728.96                                                                                         |
| 26DNH&DD                                                                                       | 26DNH&DD                                                                                       | 581.80                                                                                         |
| 27LADAKH                                                                                       | 27LADAKH                                                                                       | 1008.78                                                                                        |

| 28LAKSHADWEEP       |           75.19 |
|---------------------|-----------------|
| 29ARUNACHAL PRADESH |  7930.17        |
| 30ASSAM             | 88639.4         |
| 31MANIPUR           | 13218.3         |
| 32MEGHALAYA         | 10937.9         |
| 33MIZORAM           |  3552.39        |
| 34NAGALAND          | 11178.4         |
| 35SIKKIM            |    10.49        |
| 36TRIPURA           |  9822.46        |
| Grand Total         |     1.12465e+06 |

*Utilization not due