Govt to supply fortified rice through ICDS, Mid-day Meal scheme from April"About 65 per cent of India's population consumes rice as a staple food. Fortification of rice is a cost-effective and complementary strate...
ICDS funds won't be slashed, says Maneka GandhiThe Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme is centrally-sponsored but states and union territories are responsible for their i...
Maneka Gandhi for packaged food under government’s nutrition planUnion minister Maneka Gandhi on Thursday pitched for providing packaged food under the government's supplementary nutrition scheme ICDS.
Fund crunch could nip national nutrition mission in the budThe expenditure finance committee has rejected the Rs 18,000-crore National Nutrition Mission—piloted by the ministry of women and child de...
8 states flouted norms for food procurement under Integrated Child Development Services: GovernmentComplaints have been received alleging irregularities in procurement of Supplementary Nutrition Food under ICDS, recently, Maneka Gandhi sa...
Finance Ministry moves cabinet note on 18 schemes poised for central funding cutThe one scheme that will receive 100% central funding will be the Skill Development Mission being implemented as the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal...
FM Arun Jaitley will be approached for more funds: Maneka GandhiShe said that there has been 50% cut in the budget for Integrated Child Development Services ICDS) and other areas of her Ministry in the 2...
Budget cut will expose children to greater vulnerability, say activistsThe allocation for ICDS Scheme has been reduced from Rs 18,195 crore in 2014-15 budget estimates to Rs 8,335.8 crore in 2015-16 budget esti...
CAG report slams Mizoram's Home and Social Welfare departmentsReport of the CAG has slammed Mizoram's Home and Social Welfare departments for parking crores of rupees under civil deposits for months.
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Malnutrition; a problem ignored by every party.In January 2012, PM Manmohan Singh declared half of India's children were malnourished and that was a national shame. Yet since then, not a...
CAG pulls up WCD ministry for diversion of ICDS fundsState governments have irregularly diverted funds aggregating to Rs 57.82 crore from the central government's flagship ICDS Scheme.
Food Security Bill, ICDS can reap the benefits only with proper implementationWhy is it that the country with surplus production of food grain often cannot feed nutritious food to its citizens? Why do we have a very h...
Enhance incomes, education and sanitation to tackle malnutritionPM would be advised to end wasteful subsidies that eat away govt's spending power and use the money to invest in rebooting agriculture.
- Rs 2 lakh crore sought by ministry to tackle malnutrition
"We have sought about Rs 2 lakh crore in the next five- year plan for the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme, which is sev...
- Women contributes in ICDS scheme in Haryana
Over one lakh women residing in the villages of Haryana have been catapulted in to a decision making role in 6200 Village Level Committees ...
- Experts find fault with ICDS scheme
It’s a well-documented fact that India’s answer to the problem of widespread malnutrition in the country has been the Integrated Child Deve...
- Yechury writes to PM demanding higher allocation for ICDS
CPI(M) on Friday slammed the Government for not granting necessary funds for Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).