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By Divya Ramamurthi
BANGALORE, NOV. 16. A few Integrated Child Development Scheme centres (ICDS) in the State have expressed the fear that they will shortly be unable to provide supplementary meals to all children under their care because of lack of funds. "It is a worrying situation. By December they will have money to feed only 50 per cent of the children in the crèches," says an official of the Department of Women and Child Development. The centres at Gulbarga, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Koppal and Haveri are facing a financial crisis this year because more number of anganwadi centres was opened in these districts this year. As many as 166 new centres were sanctioned this year, several of them being set up in these districts. It is also because the centres are larger in size having more than 100 children each, adds the official. The supplementary nutrition programme for children aged less than six at these centres is to ensure that children from below poverty line families get adequate nutrition. Each beneficiary is provided 300 calories and 10 grams to 12 grams of protein as supplements for 300 days in a year. For normal children, supplementary nutrition is given at the cost of Rs. 1.50 a beneficiary a day, including transportation charges. For malnourished children, pregnant women and nursing mothers double the quantity of food at Rs. 3 a beneficiary a day is provided. Under the programme, each child is provided with two slices of bread weighing 60 grams for 300 days in a year as well as energy rich food. Children aged between six months and three years are given energy rich foods six days a week, those aged between three years and six years are given amylase rich energy food for two days, egg on one day (wherever it is possible) and rice-based food for three days. Pregnant women and nursing mothers are given one kg of rice, 200 grams of green gram and 240 grams of amylase rich energy foods as take home food every week. District officials at the ICDS centres had written to the Department of Women and Child Development requesting it for additional funding. The department has in turn written to the Finance Department seeking more money. "We hope they will sanction the money soon otherwise there will be a disaster on our hands," adds the official.
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