Open AccessOperational Assessment of ICDS Scheme at Grass Root Level in a Rural Area of Eastern India: Time to Introspect
Author(s) -
Jyotiranjan Sahoo,
Mahajan Pb,
Sourabh Paul,
' Bhatia,
Abani Patra,
Hembram Dk
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2016/23059.9041
Subject(s) - checklist , environmental health , medicine , government (linguistics) , child development , socioeconomics , psychology , psychiatry , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , cognitive psychology
Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS), a flagship program of Government of India (GoI) for early childhood development hasn't delivered the desired results since its inception four decades ago. This could be due to infrastructural problems, lack of awareness and proper utilization by the local people, inadequate program monitoring and corruption in food supplies, etc. This study is an audit of 36 Anganwadi centres at Khordha district, Odisha, to evaluate the implementation of the ICDS.