Lok Sabha Question No. 3846 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-08-11
Subject: SAKSHAM and SABLA Scheme
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: T.N. Prathapan

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 3846

TO BE ANSWERED ON 11.08.2023

## SAKSHAM AND SABLA SCHEME

## 3846. SHRI T.N.PRATHAPAN

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

- (a) whether the SAKSHAM-Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Boys has failed to reach the beneficiaries;
- (b) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has the record of the total number of adolescent boys and girls in respective Anganwadi areas, ward, panchayat and districts and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the  details  and  the  progress  of  the  SABLA  scheme  under  the  umbrella  of Integrated Child Development Services?

## ANSWER

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

- (a)  to  (c)   The  Rajiv  Gandhi  Scheme  for  Empowerment  of  Adolescent  Boys  was announced on 27.02.2014 by the previous Government and was not implemented.
- (d) For self-development and empowerment of adolescent girls in the age group of 11-18 years, SABLA was launched in 2010 on pilot basis in 205 districts of the country. The scheme was renamed as Scheme for Adolescent Girls and extended to additional 303 districts across the country in 2017-18.  Thereafter, with effect from 01.04.2018, the Scheme was extended to all the districts of the country covering only out-of-school adolescent girls in the age group of 11-14 years.

With the enforcement of Right to Education Act, 2009, there was a decline seen in  the  number  of  beneficiaries  of  the  Scheme  since  the  RTE  Act  provides  legal entitlement for compulsory and free education to adolescent girls in the age group of 11-14 years and all the adolescent girls are entitled to go to school.

Keeping  this  in  view,  Scheme  for  Adolescent  Girls  was  revised w.e.f. 01.04.2022  and  was  subsumed  under  Mission  Saksham  Anganwadi  and  Poshan 2.0.   The  Scheme  aims  at  providing  nutritional  support  to  Adolescent  Girls  (14-18 years) for improving their health and nutritional status in the Aspirational Districts and all districts of North Eastern States. Under the Scheme, services are provided under following Components:

- (i) Nutrition: There is a provision of providing supplementary nutrition containing 600 calories, 18-20 grams of protein and micronutrients to adolescent girls in the age group of 14-18 years for 300 days in a year.
- (ii) Non Nutrition Component: There is a provision for providing IFA supplementation, Health check-up and Referral services, Nutrition & Health Education and Skill Training

Under  the Scheme  for  Adolescent  Girls (SAG),  State-wise  number  of beneficiaries as reported in the Poshan Tracker, during the current financial year is as below:

| S.No.   | Name of State     |   Number of Beneficiaries as on July 2023 |
|---------|-------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh    |                                     16125 |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh |                                     13162 |
| 3       | Assam             |                                    178492 |
| 4       | Bihar             |                                    256174 |
| 5       | Chattisgarh       |                                    141807 |
| 6       | Gujrat            |                                     85636 |
| 7       | Haryana           |                                     19004 |
| 8       | Himachal Pradesh  |                                     17222 |
| 9       | Jammu Kashmir     |                                     21464 |
| 10      | Jharkhand         |                                    267733 |
| 11      | Karnataka         |                                      1724 |
| 12      | Kerala            |                                     19209 |
| 13      | Madhya Pradesh    |                                    156317 |
| 14      | Maharashtra       |                                    119744 |
| 15      | Manipur           |                                     52606 |
| 16      | Meghalaya         |                                     59752 |
| 17      | Mizoram           |                                     23978 |
| 18      | Nagaland          |                                     23777 |
| 19      | Odisha            |                                    297801 |
| 20      | Punjab            |                                     30184 |
| 21      | Rajasthan         |                                     46362 |
| 22      | Sikkim            |                                     10396 |
| 23      | Tamil Nadu        |                                     44034 |
| 24      | Telangana         |                                     35971 |
| 25      | Tripura           |                                     33063 |
| 26      | Uttar Pradesh     |                                    263244 |
| 27      | Uttrakhand        |                                     78397 |
|         | Total             |                                   2313378 |