Is malnutrition & health the india's biggest problem-How can ICDS program answer to this question to solve the world problem

Since its launch in 1975, the ICDS program has expanded and matured from 33 blocks to 6, 284blocks in India and now has more than one million centers ICDS centers, the supplementary feeding is supposed to provide support to all children 0–6 years old for300 days in a year (25 days a month). ICDS supplementary nutrition program provides 300 calories and 8–10 gms of protein for all children from 0–72 months (below age six). For children 6–23 months of age, this covers 50–150% of the required complementary energy needs6 and 70–100% of the recommended protein needs. The study of icds projects in all the states have revealed this data from the study done shows this result. A total of 170 ICDS projects were selected from all the states/union territory of India. The total number of children as per register is 1180788 and when actually seen at the time of visit was 912982. The children who are receiving supplementary feeding through ICDS are not selected randomly. As mentioned above-the children from all section and also from the weaker socio-economic groups are more likely to receive the daily supplementary feeding. Therefore, it is likely that there is negative selection overall, though there still might be selection on preferences and information within these weakest groups. To “identify” the effects of supplementary nutrition, I need to take account of the observable differences between the children who are receiving supplementary nutrition and those who are not Under ICDS supplementary food arrangements are generally different for children above and below the age of three. Children ages 3–6 are generally fed “on site” at the anganwadi, while children below age three receive “take home rations” that last for a week or a month depending on the frequency of distribution. There are two broad types of on-site feeding arrangements for children ages 3–6: cooked food and “ready-to-eat” items such as panjiri or murmura Take-home rations also vary across states: the percentage of villages in which at least one girl (boy) report receiving supplementary nutrition intensely is small. However, in a large proportion of such villages majority of the scheduled caste/tribe girls (boys) children report receiving it. The study of all the children, pregnant women and others were studied and. The fimalrelust shows that if we are able to reduce malnutrition then we can change the result.