The Cabinet
Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi,
has approved the proposal for revision of cost norms with annual cost
indexation for Supplementary Nutrition (SN) for the beneficiaries of Anganwadi
Services and Adolescent Girls (out of school 11-14 years) under the Umbrella
ICDS Scheme. This addresses a long standing anomaly and ensures that the
changes in norms keeps pace with changes in costs on an annual basis.
This follows the
decision by the Government to provide cash benefits to pregnant and lactating
mothers under the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, and is part of an
intensive effort to improve the nutritional status of women and children.
The revised
Supplementary Nutrition cost norms for the beneficiaries of Anganwadi Services
and for Adolescent Girls (11-14 years out of school) under the Umbrella ICDS
Scheme, as approved by the Government are as under:
|
S.No.
|
Category
|
Existing
Rate Rs./day/beneficiary
|
Revised
Rates
Rs./day/beneficiary
|
|
1
|
Children
(6-72 months)
|
Rs.6.00
|
Rs.8.00
|
|
2
|
Pregnant
Women & Lactating Mothers (PW&LM)
|
Rs.7.00
|
Rs.9.50
|
|
3
|
Severely
Malnourished
|
Rs.9.00
|
Rs.12.00
|
|
4
|
Adolescent
Girls (11-14 years out of school)
|
Rs.5.00
|
Rs.9.50
|
The
revision of cost norms for SN for beneficiaries of Aanganwadi Services would
cost additional expenditure of Rs.9,900 crore and for beneficiaries of
Adolescent Girls, it would cost Rs.2,267.18 crore as GoI share for a period
from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
The
revision in the cost norms of SN for the beneficiaries of Anganwadi Services
and Adolescent Girls would impact the health and nutritional status of about 11
crore beneficiaries per annum.
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