An assessment of facilities and activities under integrated child development services in a city of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India

Saha, Mausumi; Biswas, Romy

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“…In the study conducted in Darjeeling, 86.66% AWCs were found to be running in pucca buildings. 3 The AWC in the current study had adequate floor space, but in a study in Gujarat only 53.3% AWCs were found to have adequate indoor space. 4 This AWC had separate toilet facility, but in their study Saha et al found that toilet facility was absent in 43.33% AWCs.…”

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“…In a study in Darjeeling by Saha et al, it was observed that 33.33% AWCs were running in rented Govt building and in a study conducted in Gujarat, 66.7% of buildings were owned by state. 3,4 In a study in Amritsar, it was found that only 24% of the AWCs had their own building. 5 In a study by Debata et al, out of 21 anganwadi centers, 81% were found to be functioning in government allotted buildings, 4.8% were functioning in a rented premise while remaining 14.2% were functioning in other non allotted government buildings like school or panchayat building.…”

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“…4 This AWC had separate toilet facility, but in their study Saha et al found that toilet facility was absent in 43.33% AWCs. 3 In the study by Debata et al, it was observed that toilet facility was nonexistent in 42.9% of the AWCs and the children had to visit nearby school buildings or on roads to satisfy their nature's call. 6 In the current study, the AWC was well equipped and weight measurement was done by Salter's and Bathroom weighing scale.…”

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“…In a study done in Darjeeling district, all the AWCs were also found to be well equipped. 3 In a study in Gujarat, weight monitoring of children was done by using Salter's scale/ spring balance in 75% AWCs followed by weighing pan in 18.3% AWCs only. 4 In a study conducted in Amritsar, it was found that 42% AWC had functional Salter's weighing machine and weighing machine for adults and children in working condition was available in only 38.2% AWCs.…”

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“…The study conducted in Darjeeling showed 29.57% mothers were not attending NHED meeting. 3 The study held in Gujarat showed PSE (Preschool Education) materials were available only in 35% AWCs and 14.6% of the AWCs reported 100% preschool education coverage among children. NHED training materials were available only in one-third AWCs.…”

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Assessment of infrastructure, manpower and functioning of an anganwadi centre of an urban area of south 24 parganas, West Bengal, India

Dey

Sikder

Sankha

et al. 2020

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: ICDS is one of the flagship programmes of the Government of India. Proper utilization of ICDS services depend on factors like infrastructure, accessibility, availability of resources and satisfaction of the beneficiaries. ICDS services are essential for promotion of health and nutritional status of mothers and adolescents; psychological, physical, social development of children. The scheme is important to reduce morbidity, mortality, malnutrition, school dropouts among the beneficiaries. To assess the overall functioning, a cross sectional study was conducted in an Anganwadi Centre of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.Methods: In 2019, a cross-sectional study conducted in an Anganwadi centre at Sonarpur block, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. Out of 26 AWCs present in Sonarpur block, 1 AWC selected randomly for study. Data collected with a predesigned, pretested and structured oral questionnaire.Results: AWC was in a shared club room with adequate infrastructure. Manpower adequate. Materials and equipment’s adequate, well maintained. 91% children had available growth charts, 96% accurately plotted. 15% moderately undernourished, rest were normal. 54% children getting non formal preschool education. 64% mothers attending mothers’ meeting. 93% of 6 months to 3 years of children, 87% of 3-6 years of children and 100% of the pregnant and lactating mothers were getting supplementary nutrition. 47% adolescents availing the IFA/ deworming services. Kerosene used for cooking fuel.Conclusions: Few gaps identified related to growth monitoring, reporting of beneficiaries, delivering of some services. Those gaps need to be addressed for improved functioning of the AWC.

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confidence: 99%

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Assessment of infrastructure, manpower and functioning of an anganwadi centre of an urban area of south 24 parganas, West Bengal, India

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Sankha

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An evaluation study of Anganwadis under ICDS in India

Panda¹

2021

Soc Work Soc Welf

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Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme has expanded tremendously over the 30 years of its operation to cover almost all the development blocks in the country. It offers a wide range of health, nutrition and education related services to children, women and adolescent girls. The study wish to find out the impact and efficacy of the ICDS scheme. The study was conducted from April 2019 to December 2019. The study was conducted on purposive random sampling basis covering 19 States/UTs. 510 AWCs were selected and total 15300 children were covered. One of the important findings of the study is that the children in the Normal grade are found to be 77.4% of the total sample size which means that in spite of a lot of bottlenecks, the malnutrition has been reduced among the children of 0 to 5 years of age. As envisages from the field study, people are well aware of the ICDS scheme and are sending their children to AWCs. However, the children from remote areas are not able to avail these facilities. The opening of public nursery school in urban and rural areas poses a great threat to the enrollment of children in AWCs nowadays unless the infrastructural and other facilities of AWCs are upgraded. The working conditions and remuneration of AWC workers needs to be looked at sympathetically. The findings of the study are expected to help policymakers and programme implementing bodies to take appropriate corrective measures to make the ICDS more effective and thereby bringing down the malnutrition in children to zero level.

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Evaluation of the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme in a Hilly Tribal District of Manipur: A Cross-Sectional Study

Touthang

Singh²,

Singh³

et al. 2022

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Introduction: The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, the largest program for promotion of maternal and child health nutrition in India, is operational for more than four decades. Objective: To evaluate Integrated Child Development Services Scheme in Kangpokpi District of Manipur in terms of input, process and outcome indicators. Method: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted at a tribal hilly district of Kangpokpi in Manipur. The study included ICDS staff and beneficiaries of 35 randomly selected Anganwadi Centres (AWCs). Data related to ICDS was collected by using interview schedules and checklists. The descriptive data were expressed in terms of mean, standard deviation and percentage. Association between important background characteristics and Anganwadi centre attendance was analysed using chi-square test. Ethical clearance was obtained from the institutional Ethic Committee of JNIMS, Imphal before conducting the study (study period: May 2018 to April 2021) Results: Input indicators: The study found that86% anganwadi centres were run in anganwadi worker’s own house. Two-thirds of the anganwadi workers (65.7%) were found to have separate toilet and 22.9% had separate kitchen. Process indicators: Even though the proportions of beneficiaries accessing services from anganwadi centres were high, the number of days Supplementary Nutrition (SN) was provided in a month was comparatively low (mean: 2.97 and SD: 0.618 for under-6 children and mean: 1 and SD: 0.000 days for adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mother in a month) due to frequent interruption of supplementary nutrition supply. There was no supplementary nutrition stock in 74.3% of the anganwadi centres on the day of visit. Outcome indicators: Regarding the nutritional status 90% of Under-6 children were found to be normal, 9% underweight and 0.6% severely underweight. Conclusion: The Integrated Child Development Services Programme in the study area was found to have several short-comings both in terms of inputs and process. There were not only inadequate facilities and infrastructure, but the anganwadi centres also lacked essential equipment like weighing machines and medicine kits, rendering a vital activity like growth monitoring to be almost completely absent. Supervisory visits were far below satisfactory.

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An assessment of facilities and activities under integrated child development services in a city of Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India

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Assessment of infrastructure, manpower and functioning of an anganwadi centre of an urban area of south 24 parganas, West Bengal, India

Assessment of infrastructure, manpower and functioning of an anganwadi centre of an urban area of south 24 parganas, West Bengal, India

An evaluation study of Anganwadis under ICDS in India

Evaluation of the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme in a Hilly Tribal District of Manipur: A Cross-Sectional Study

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