(a) whether the Government has fixed any target for development and welfare
of women and children in the country for the year 12th Five Year Plan;
(b) if so, the details thereof:
(c) whether the Government has been able to achieve the said target;
(d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and
(e) the corrective steps taken / being taken by the Government in this regard?
MINISTER OF STATE OF THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
(SHRIMATI KRISHNA TIRATH)
(a) to (e): The Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a number
of schemes for the development and welfare of women and children in the country
against the annual budget / resources allocated under each scheme. The major
schemes being implemented by the Ministry are (i) Integrated Child Development
Services (ICDS) Scheme, (ii) Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent
Girls (RGSEAG) - SABLA, (iii) Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), and
(iv) Support to Training & Employment Programme for Women (STEP). ICDS:
The Ministry of Women & Child Development is administering Integrated
Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, a centrally sponsored scheme being
implemented by all the State Governments/UT Administrations across the country.
The scheme aims at holistic development of children below 6 years of age and pregnant
women & lactating mothers by providing a package of six services comprising (i)
Supplementary nutrition (ii) Pre-school non-formal education (iii) Nutrition and
health Education (iv) Immunization (v) Health check-up and (vi) Referral services
through Anganwadi Centres at grassroot level. Three services viz. Immunization,
Health check-up and Referral services are provided in convergence with Public
Health Systems of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme is a self selecting scheme.
It is open to all children below six years of age and pregnant and lactating mothers.
In order to address various programmatic, management and institutional gaps and to
meet administrative and operational challenges, Government approved the proposal for
Strengthening and Restructuring of ICDS Scheme in September 2012 with an over-all
budget allocation of Rs. 1,23,580 crore during 12th Five Year Plan. The
Administrative approvals in this regard have been issued to the States/UTs.
Roll out of Restructured and Strengthened ICDS is to take place as per the
following schedule:
(i) In 200 high burden districts in the first year (2012-13);
(ii) In additional 200 districts in second year (2013-14) (i.e. w.e.f. 1.4.2013)
including districts from special category States and NER;
(iii) In remaining districts in third year (2014-15) (i.e. w.e.f. 1.4.2014).
SABLA: SABLA, a Centrally sponsored scheme was introduced in 2010-11 on a pilot basis.
At present it is being implemented in 205 districts selected from all the States / UTs.
One crore adolescent girls per annum are estimated to be covered under SABLA. The
achievements against the target for the first two years of the XII Plan is as under:
(in lakhs) Year Target (for ) Beneficiaries covered nutrition (for nutrition) 2012-13 101.70 114.26 2013-14 108.18 100.32 (as on 31.12.2013)IGMSY: Under IGMSY, the Centrally Sponsored Scheme, the target of beneficiary coverage has been fixed to 10.45 lakhs per annum for 53 pilot districts across the country. Against the target of 10.45 lakhs for the year 2012-13, the actual beneficiary coverage was 6.22 lakhs. In 2013-14, upto December, 2013, the beneficiary coverage was reported to be 2.53 lakhs only because quarter – III reports from most of the States / UTs are still awaited.