(a) whether a National Consultation on “State Women and Child Development Minister and Secretaries†was held recently;
(b) if so, the details of the matter discussed at the Meeting; and
(c) the extent to which both Centre and States are willing to cooperate in implementing the child development programmes?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI KANTI SINGH)
(a) Yes, Sir. A National Consultation of State Women and
Child Development Ministers & Secretaries was held on 6th –
7th July, 2005.
(b) The issues discussed in the Consultation, inter-alia,
included, Universalization of Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS) Scheme with Quality; Operationalisation of
all pending ICDS Projects and Anganwadi Centres;
Strengthening supplementary nutritional support; Enhancing
Quality – Outreach for children under three years; Child
Friendly Anganwadi Centres, Monitoring and evaluation
mechanism etc.
(c) Both, the Centre and States, renewed their commitment
to vigorously implement the ICDS Programme.