Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is the only major national programme that addresses the health and nutrition needs of children under the age of six. It seeks to provide young children with an integrated package of services, including supplementary nutrition, health care and pre-school education. Since the needs of a young child cannot be addressed in isolation from those of his or her mother, the programme also extends to adolescent girls, pregnant women and nursing mothers. ICDS services are provided through a vast network of ICDS centres, better known as "Anganwadis".
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- Anganwadi workers pledged to root out female foeticide and infanticide(Sweta Dutta, The Indian Express, 17 June)
22 kids ill after taking anganwadi food(DNA,12 June) - CM urged to rescue Anganwadi workers(The New Indian Express,10 June)
Kids losing taste on Anganwadi food(e -pao.net, 10 June) - Nutrition meant for Anganwadi centres being sold in market(Sabir Ahmed,8 June)
- India Sees Children Dying as $2 Billion Program Proves Defective (Andrew MacAskill and Mehul Srivastava, Bloomberg, 18 December 2012)
- Overworked ICDS workers on measly pay (The Times of India, 27 November 2012)
- India's big chance (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 21 November 2012)
- Serving up a better alternative for mother and child (Poongothai Aladi Aruna, The Hindu, 30 November 2012)
- Statement of concern by Alliance Against Conflicts of Interests condemning the government's association with Nestle's creating shared value forum | Related letter to Sonia Gandhi
- Maternal, infant and young child nutrition (Agenda item 13.3, 65th World Health Assembly, 26 May 2012)
- Stealing from the mouths of babes (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Infochange, June 2012)
- Flagships adrift (Jayati Ghosh, Frontline, Volume 29, Issue 8, 21 April - 4 May 2012)
- Note on Community based Malnutrition Management - The SPANDAN Model (Seema and Prakash, Khandwa District, Madhya Pradesh, March 2012)
- Falling between two stools: Operational inconsistencies between ICDS and NRHM in the management of severe malnutrition (Vandana Prasad, Dipa Sinha and S Sridhar, Indian Pediatrics, Volume 49 - 16 March 2012)
- How rural kitchen pays (Richard Mahapatra, Down to Earth, 15 March 2012)
- Hidden Hunger? (Jyotika Sood, Down to Earth, 29 February 2012)
- An organisational problem (Renu Pokhrana, Livemint, 25 January 2012)
- Anatomy of child starvation deaths (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Infochange, November 2011)
- Crocodile tears for the children (Vatsala Vedantam, Deccan Herald, 9 December 2011)
- Malnutrition and ICDS (Editorial, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, Issue 12)
- Faltering badly at the last mile (KumKum Dasgupta, Hindustan Times, 4 November 2010)
- Why isn't India's economic growth improving its shocking levels of child malnutrition? (Institute of Development Studies)
- The Hidden Hunger behind India's Huge Success(Matt Wade, The Canberra Times, 21 March 2009) [2 April]
- As Indian Growth Soars, Child Hunger Persists (Somini Sengupte, The New York Times, 12 March 2008) [2 April]
- Why are Children Starving in a Booming India? (Stephanie Nolen, Globe and Mail, 21 March 2008) [2 April]
