Nurture and nourish: ensuring early childhood development

Sengupta, Sudeshna (2026) Nurture and nourish: ensuring early childhood development. In: Realising right: a handbook of welfare in India. Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, pp. 95-118.

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Abstract

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme was launched in 1975 with the aim of comprehensively addressing nutritional, health and educational needs of children below the age of six. The ICDS comprises supplementary nutrition, universal immunisation, nutrition and health education, health check-ups and referral services, and pre-school education delivered to ~6 crore children and ~75 lakh women via 14 lakh anganwadi centres across the country. It is a foundational programme aimed at shaping the welfare and development of every child. Over the past fifty years, the programme has continued to hold significance, with experts calling for its universalisation with equity and quality, and its expansion to include crèche services.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Sengupta, Sudeshna
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Social sciences > Public administration Social sciences > Education > Elementary education Public Health
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > University Publications > Centre for the Study of the Indian Economy (CSIE)
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/7632
Publisher URL:	https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/

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