SUPPLEMENTARY NUTRITION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF ICDS IN MANIPUR

ICDS is a very important intervention to ensure the health, nutrition and development of children under six in the state. This research work presents a pathetic picture of the programme in the state. But very luckily the rate under nutrition is not serious when we compare to other states in the sense that most of the parents usually take care of their child and even they do not bother of RTE food. The expectation of the people as well as the aim of the ICDS scheme might have certain difficulties to act accordingly that in various states it is reported that the state of functioning is in the sorry state. In the case of Manipur too, since its inception the state of activities in the centres have not been up to the desire expectation that does not claim the responsibility should be fixed to the Anganwadi centres or government.