Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)

Avani Kapur , Prerananandita Baisnab
(2018)

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is Government of India’s (GoI) flagship programme aimed at providing basic education, health and nutrition services for early childhood development.

This brief uses government reported data to analyse ICDS performance along the following parameters:

■ Overall trends in allocations and expenditures

■ Expenditure of Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP)

■ Vacancies amongst human resources

■ Coverage of beneficiaries and malnutrition rates

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