A study of government policy for icds in government vs social secter ngo and how can it change icds for the betterment of the world with help of social worker to bring change in the mind of people using it

The children are our precious resources. the development of any nation on social index and economic prosperity largely depends on the physical, mental and social well being of this most supremely important asset as enumerated in national policy on children, 1974. the policy further lays down that the state shall provide adequate services to children both before and after birth and through the period of growth so as to ensure their survival and development. the policy resolution had also enjoined on the state that it shall progressively increase the scope of its minimum basic services (like comprehensive health inputs, supplementary nutrition services for preventing deficiencies in children, expectant and nursing mothers, nutrition education of mothers and non formal education to pre school children services) so that within a reasonable time, all children in the country enjoy optimum conditions for their optimal growth. as a follow up of these measures contained in the national policy resolution, the integrated child development services, popularly known as icds was evolved in 1975 by government of india voluntary organizations have come to occupy an important place in india. the spread of ngo activities in the country, as in many other parts of the world, has manifested in a number of spheres and in wide spectrum of programmes. the ngo sector is now participating in almost every field of social welfare including development oriented initiatives, empowering women and weaker sections, protecting the rights of the marginalized segments, protecting the environment, spreading literacy and alike. in view of identifying new avenues for voluntary actions and to encourage people to contribute their time, energy and resources voluntarily to the development of the nation, the role of voluntary organizations in child welfare schemes was also emphasized by national policy for children, 1974. the policy delineates that it shall be the endeavor of the state to encourage and strengthen voluntary action so that state and voluntary efforts complement each other. the resources of voluntary organizations, trusts, charities and religious and other endowments would have to be tapped to the extent possible for promoting and developing child welfare programmes. the concluding para of the policy states that the government of india calls upon the citizens and voluntary organizations to play their part in the overall effort to attain the objectives as enunciated in the policy. subsequently, the national plan of action for children 2005 also laid emphasis on involvement of ngos in running child development initiatives. enumerating the role of ngos in child development, the 11th five year plan (2007–12) concerning child rights has mentioned that ngos will be encouraged to take up the job of social audit and performance appraisal of icds system. greater participation of ngos in icds will be sought to adopt the awcs and to augment their resources in icds. while highlighting the role of ngos in recently launched sabla scheme using the platform of icds, it has been mentioned in the scheme that effective tie ups will be developed with them not only for implementation of the scheme but for imparting training module as well. however, despite of such efforts, only 1 per cent of total operational icds projects (66 out of 6506 operational icds projects) are being wholly or partially run by ngos in the country. the state specific location of such ngo run icds projects further reveals that they are located in andhra pradesh(1), chhattisgarh(2), delhi(4) gujarat (36) karnataka(1), madhya pradesh(2), punjab(2), rajasthan(3), andwest bengal (14). however, it may be mentioned that from very beginning of icds scheme, the ngos have been involved in planning and organizing training programmes by establishing mltcs/awtcs across the countrythe study was conducted on all voluntary

organizations involved in implementation of icds projects across the country. these voluntary organizations were mainly located in the state of andhra pradesh(), chhattisgarh(), delhi() gujarat () karnataka(), madhya pradesh(), punjab(), rajasthan() and west bengal (). a total of five awcs were randomly selected from each of these voluntary organizations running icds projects/awcs. the random selection of these awcs was made on the basis of the list provided by the concerned cdpo. in order to ensure the fair representation of awcs which were selected for in depth study, precautions were taken not to choose more than two awcs from same supervisory circle of icds project.the regular icds projects were also studied on the same basisdata analysis the formats of the data were prepared in such a way that the data could be used in variety of ways for subsequent analysis. the state wise data base was created on ms excel sheet with an intention to optimally utilize the valuable empirical information for other purposes resultafter collecting, tabulating, interpreting the data and summarizing the results, an attempt has been made in the present some broad conclusions and recommendations. it is hoped that the recommendations of the study, if implemented, would make the implementation of icds with involvement of voluntary organizations more thus we can say that the icds should be given to ngo they will perform better as per the directives of our prime minister of india.