Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)

Avani Kapur , Ritwik Shukla
(2019)

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

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

■ Allocations, releases, and expenditures

■ Component-wise trends

■ Human and physical resources

■ Coverage, and

■ Outcomes

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