**Table 2.  ICDS coverage, nutrition levels, allocation and use of ICDS funds, and state domestic product, by state**

||**Share**<br>**villages co**<br>**by ICD**|**of**<br>**vered**<br>**S**<sup>**29**</sup><br>(3)<br>%|<br>**Share o**|**f stunte**|**d**<br>**Sha**<br>**under**|**re of**<br>**weight**<br>**A**<br>% sp<br>alloc|**llocation and u**<br>ent from the fund<br>ated by the GoI|**se of ICDS funds**<br>s<br>GoI spending on the<br>ICDS program||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||(1)<br>1992<br>(2)<br>1998<br>c<br>|hange<br>1992-<br>98|1992|1998|1992|1998<br> <br>to th<br>for t<br>199|<br>e states<br>he ICDS program,<br>2-2003<sup>30</sup>|<br>,<br>per underweight chil<br>age 0-6 years,<br>2000/01-2001-02<sup>31</sup>|d<br>Per capita SDP<br>(average of 1990-91<br>and 1998-99)<sup>32</sup>|
|**_North (poor)_**||||||||||
|Bihar|0.14 0.32|<sup>129</sup>|0.56|0.54|0.63|0.55|76|25|7440|
|Madhya Pradesh|0.27 0.53|<sup>96</sup>|-|0.51|0.60|0.55|102|72|15480|
|Orissa|0.42 0.47|<sup>12</sup>|0.46|0.44|0.53|0.55|99|231|11490|
|Rajasthan|0.36 0.52|<sup>44</sup>|0.42|0.52|0.45|0.51|105|95|17231|
|Uttar Pradesh|0.20 0.33|<sup>65</sup>|0.54|0.56|0.58|0.52|65|60|12570|
|**_North (rich)_**||||||||||
|Gujarat|0.61 0.84|<sup>38</sup>|0.44|0.44|0.49|0.46|101|173|25158|
|Haryana|0.64 0.92|<sup>44</sup>|0.43|0.50|0.35|0.35|101|280|27437|
|Maharashtra|0.66 0.81|<sup>23</sup>|0.41|0.40|0.52|0.50|114|154|27968|
|Punjab|0.39 0.70|<sup>79</sup>|0.38|0.39|0.46|0.29|98|334|29361|
|**_North (other)_**||||||||||
|Himachal Pradesh|0.39 0.52|<sup>33</sup>|-|0.42|0.46|0.45|96|469|21387|
|Jammu & Kashmi|r 0.44 0.70|<sup>59</sup>|0.38|0.39|0.43|0.35|116|446|16215|
|West Bengal|0.45 0.58|<sup>29</sup>|-|0.42|0.57|0.49|105|174|18713|
|**_South_**||||||||||
|Andhra Pradesh|0.30 0.65|<sup>117</sup>|-|0.39|0.48|0.38|99|178|18809|
|Karnataka|0.63 0.86|<sup>37</sup>|0.41|0.37|0.51|0.44|100|234|20395|
|Kerala|1.00 0.97|-3|0.26|0.22|0.27|0.27|99|351|21139|
|Tamil Nadu|0.77 0.43|<sup>-44</sup>|-|0.29|0.47|0.37|82|357|23154|
|**_North-East_**||||||||||
|Arunachal Prades|h 0.65 0.82|<sup>26</sup>|0.49|0.27|0.38|0.25|95|2689|18360|
|Assam|0.39 0.30|<sup>-23</sup>|0.51|0.51|0.50|0.37|100|257|13258|
|Manipur|0.60 0.83|<sup>38</sup>|0.25|0.32|0.27|0.28|95|958|14416|
|Meghalaya|0.07 0.22|<sup>214</sup>|0.47|0.45|0.45|0.38|102|380|16034|
|<br>Mizoram|0.97 0.73|<sup>-25</sup>|0.37|0.35|0.28|0.28|101|1766|18335|
|Nagaland|0.54 0.84|<sup>56</sup>|0.29|0.32|0.28|0.24|94|2690|18301|
|Sikkim|- 0.27|-|-|0.32|-|0.21|125|1001|18371|
|Tripura|0.76 0.83|9|0.42|0.41|0.46|0.43|89|377|15252|

29 Source: NFHS I and II 30 Under the budget heading “ICDS (General). Source: Yi-Kyoung Lee and Selvaraju, from Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 89 dated 18 February 2003, and Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 4417, dated 2 May 2003.

31 Under the budget heading “ICDS (General). Source: Yi-Kyoung Lee and Selvaraju, from Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 1241, dated 31 July 2003, and calculated using the number of children aged 0-6 years from the 2001 census * prevalence of more than 2SD underweight from the NHFS2.

> 32 - Source: Government of India, Ministry of Finance _Economic Survey_ , 2003-04, http://indiabudget.nic.in/es2002

> <u>03/chapt2003/tab18.pdf.  The data are at current prices at the time of the Economic Survey.</u>

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