Supplementary Nutrition Program offered at Anganwadi Centres involves recurring expenditure incurred from the Consolidated Fund of India. Therefore, in pursuance of the provisions of Section-7 of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (18 of 2016), the Ministry has notified the Supplementary Nutrition Programme vide Notification No.S.O-348(E) dated 06.02.2017. Anganwadi Services scheme is being digitized by the Ministry through the POSHAN Tracker App. Digitization of the scheme will enable the Ministry to identify the beneficiaries as a part of the programme as a whole.

Nochild is deprived of supplementary nutrition due to absence of Aadhaar number. The benefits under the scheme can be accessed using the mother's Aadhaar card.

As per the information received from UIDAI, the age wise data is compiled by UIDAI in the following age-groups:

1. 0-5 years
2. 5-18 years
3. > 18 years
4. Overall

As on 30^th June, 2022, Aadhaar numbers have been assigned to 3,16,70,612 children in the age of 0-5 years out of the total projected population (2022) of 11,47,12,650 in the age group of 0-5 years.

Ministry has been re-calibrating Data to maximize nutritional out comes for genuine beneficiaries.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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