How AWW, ANM and Asha help in development of the ICDS to tackle malnutition and health issue for a better India

Integrated Child Development Services, popularly known as ICDS was evolved in 1975 by Government of India with the major objectives of: Improving the nutritional and health status of children in the age group 0–6 years. Laying the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child. Reducing the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition, and school dropout. Achieving effective coordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development, and enhancing the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education. The basic premise of the programme revolves around the common consensus among educationists, researchers and practitioners that early childhood education and care are inseparable issues and must be considered as one. Based upon this fundamental assumption, the basic inputs under ICDS programme include delivery of integrated package of minimum basic services-health care (immunisation, referrals, health check-ups, nutrition and health education), nutritional supplementation and early childhood education (stimulation activities for children of 0–3 years and non-formal pre-school activities for children 3–6 years) so as to benefit the children from pre-natal stage to the age of six years and to pregnant and lactating mothers. The concept of providing a package of services is based primarily on the consideration that the overall impact would be much larger if the different services are provided in an integrated manner. ICDS, therefore, takes a holistic view of the development of the child and attempts to improve his/her both pre-and post-natal environment. Accordingly, besides children in the formative years (0–6 years), women between 15–45 years of age are also covered by the programme, as these are child-bearing years in the life of a women and her nutritional and health status has a bearing on the development of the child. Further, in order to better address the concern for women and for girl child, interventions have also been designed for adolescent girls seeking to break the inter-generational cycle of nutritional disadvantage. The adolescent girls therefore have also been brought under the ambit of ICDS services

A total of 170 icds projects were selected and the data were collected on the visit and on analyzing the data on the spread sheet we could see that out of 13 lacks38 thousand anganwari we could study only a very small of these numbers of On analysis of the data collected. The study of children with normal as well as malnourished children in whole of India according to new who growth chart. The immunisations study done by 432 awc were shown how the health centers are taking care of the children and pregnant women. The data after analysis we see that the aww, anm, and asha help in these work and we able to achieve a good result. We are able to be declared polio free nation.