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Integrated Child Development Services
Country India
Launched 2 October 1975; 43 years ago
Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is a government programme in India which provides food, preschool education, and primary healthcare to children under 6 years of age and their mothers. The scheme was launched in 1975, discontinued in 1978 by the government of Morarji Desai, and then relaunched by the Tenth Five Year Plan.
Tenth five year plan also linked ICDS to Anganwadi centres established mainly in rural areas and staffed with frontline workers.[1] In addition to fighting malnutrition and ill health, the programme is also intended to combat gender inequality by providing girls the same resources as boys.
A 2005 study found that the ICDS programme was not particularly effective in reducing malnutrition, largely because of implementation problems and because the poorest states had received the least coverage and funding.[1] During the 2012–13 fiscal year, the Indian central government spent ₹159 billion (US$2.2 billion) on the programme.[2] The widespread network of ICDS has an important role in combating malnutrition especially for children of weaker groups.