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NEW DELHI: The Union Women and Child Development Ministry has proposed public-private partnership for strengthening the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS). The partnership could include resource mobilisation for constructing anganwadi centres, creating facilities such as child-friendly toilets and kitchen, providing drinking water, pre-school education kits and conducting regular check-ups at health centres. Minister of State for Women and Child Development Renuka Chowdhury said at a workshop on ‘Public-Private Partnership in ICDS’ that the ICDS, the largest programme in the world for intervention to correct malnutrition, catered to about 60.63 million children through nine lakh anganwadis. Still some gaps“But still there are some gaps that could be filled through the participation of other stakeholders in society, particularly the private industry.” Ms. Chowdhury said the ICDS was initiated as a purely governmental programme. However, with the passage of time and through field experience it was felt that the programme could yield much better results if there was wider participation of the private sector. As of now, the government collaborated with only a few voluntary organisations and panchayati raj institutions, which had paid rich dividends. “Taking all these developments into consideration, the government is of the view that the ICDS could be developed as a people’s programme with the partnership of the private sector.” The private sector could help the government to reach the remotest areas to create awareness on health and nutrition, provide training to enhance the capacities of the ICDS functionaries, make anganwadis more child-friendly, upgrade the infrastructure and monitor the implementation of various ICDS schemes.
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