INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES (ICDS) SCHEME ANNUAL PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (APIP) DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

 Nagaland is a vibrant hill state Located in the extreme North Eastern End of India, bounded by Myanmar in the East; Assam in the West; Arunachal Pradesh and a part of Assam in the North with Manipur in the south. It offers rich incomparable traditional and cultural heritage. The population of Nagaland is entirely Tribal. The Distinctive character and identity of each tribe in terms of tradition, custom, language and dresses is clearly visible to the visitors. Its Longitude lies at E to E and Latitude: N to N.

BRIEF PROFILE OF THE STATE AS PER 2011 CENSUS  Actual Population : 19,80,602  Male : 1,025,707 ; Female : 954,895  Sex Ratio : 931  Population (0 -6yrs) : 2,85,981  Male(0-6yrs):1,47,111  Female(0-6yrs): 1,38,870  Child sex ratio (0-6yrs) : 944  Literacy : 80.11%  Male literacy: 83.29%  Female literacy:76.69%  No. of districts: 11  No. of sub-districts: 114  No. of towns: 26  No. of villages:1428

HISTORY OF ICDS IN THE STATE In Nagaland, the ICDS programme was launched in the year 1975 in Jalukie block of Peren district with 50 Anganwadi centers. The programme has since grown and at present there are 60 (sixty) ICDS projects in 11 (Eleven) districts of the State. Of this 2 (two) are Urban projects, 1(one) is rural project and the rest are Tribal projects. All the 6(six) services under ICDS are being provided through a Network of 3455 Anganwadi centres in the State.

PRESENT ICDS INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE STATE:  Out of 3455 AWCs in the State, 1729 Anganwadi houses have already been constructed, 1282 AWHs are under construction and the remaining 444 AWHs are on rent. As for the CDPO offices, out of the total 60 project offices, 40 project offices are on rent and the remaining 20 were constructed out of the state plan.  Total No of AWC: 3455  AWC with building: 1729  AWC without building: 444  AWC where construction is going on: 1282

STATUS OF ICDS PROJECTS & AWCs OPERATIONALIZATION NO OF ICDS PROJECTS SANCTIONED OPERATIONALISED ICDS PROJECTS NO OF AWCs SANCTIONED NO OF OPERATIONALISED AWCs

HUMAN RESOURCES POSITION S. N FUNCTIONARIESSANCTIONEDIN POSITIONVACANCY 1. STATE LEVEL OSD110 P.O DISTRICT LEVEL DPOs BLOCK LEVEL CDPOs AWC LEVEL AWWS AWHs3455 0

MAJOR CONSTRAINTS IN PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTAION :  Due to difficult terrain and poor road connectivity in some districts such as Mon, Tuensang, Longlen, kiphire, Phek and Zunheboto, transportation of SNP and PSE materials are hindered to a great extend. In addition to that proper buildings are not available in some blocks to run the project offices. So proviso of constructing CDPO offices in difficult areas may be considered by the MoWCD, Govt of India for the smooth implementation of ICDS scheme.

PROCUREMENT OF MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENTS  All the District and Block offices in the state have been provided with computers, printers and Data cards to strengthen the existing Management Information System (MIS). The current status of functional resources at various levels is presented in the table below: Place Present Status Computers Printers Vehicles StateYes District (11)Yes PROJECT(60)Yes 19 CDPOs are without vehicle

ESTIMATION AND TIMELINES IN PROCUREMENT OF MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT : FINANCIAL REQUIREMENT FOR PURCHASE OF ALMIRAH, STORAGE BOX, UTENSILS : ITEMSNos TO BE PROCURED DURING ESTIMATED BUDGETARY REQUIREMENT in RS PSE 1,000 Rs.34,55,000 MEDICINE 600 Rs.20,73,000 WEIGHING 1,600 Rs. 55,28,000 STATE LEVEL Rs. 8,00,000 Rs.5,00,000 Rs.59,000 Rs.35,40,000 Rs.6,91,00,000

 SUPPLEMENTARY NUTRITION (SNP) is funded jointly by the Central and State govt on 90:10 basis. Under this programme, various supplementary nutrition items such as micronutrient fortified khichiri, Kheer and weaning food are distributed to 3.43 lakh children, pregnant and lactating mothers in 3455 AWCs under 59 ICDS projects located across the state.  In pursuance of the orders of the Honourable Supreme Court in 2001, Government of Nagaland has decentralised the procurement under SNP.

 The SNP are procured and distributed by NGOs.  Necessary standards are maintained as far as the quality of SNP is concerned.  SNP is provided 6 days a week to the beneficiaries. TREND IN BENEFICIARIES COVERAGE FOR SNP AND PSE.  =3, 39,260  =3,43,924  =3,45, 723.

REQUIREMENT OF FUNDS FOR  For SNP an amount of Rs lakhs would be required for the year ,  Under WBNP the requirement quantum of food for the financial Year ( ) is 11, mts of rice and the financial requirement is Rs Lakhs.  For ICDS(GEN), an amount of Rs.6600 lakhs will be required for the year

PRE- SCHOOL EDUCATION  In Nagaland, under pre- school education, kits with toys and different kinds of educational play-way materials are provided to every Anganwadi Centre each year at a cost of Rs. 1000/ kit/awc/year. In most of the ICDS projects locally available and scrap materials are also use for pre-school education activities.  An amount of Rs. 34,55,000 will be required for the purchase of pre-school materials during the current financial year.

INFORMATION, EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION  Under IEC, the Department of Social Welfare has printed pamphlets, banners about the various services of ICDS in all the tribal dialects and distributed to all Anganwadi centres for wide publicity and mass awareness.  Various National events like Nutrition week, Breastfeeding week, ICDS week, Children’s Day, etc are celebrated in all the Anganwadi centres across the State.  For the financial year , an amount of Rs lakhs is required for IEC.

MONITORING AND EVALUATION Some of the strategies adopted by the State to strengthen its monitoring and evaluation components are as follows:  Annual verification of Beneficiaries has been done for all the ICDS projects.  Field visits are regularly under-taken by the Departmental Officials, State Monitoring unit, DPOs, CDPOs, and Supervisors to monitor the Implementation of the ICDS program in the State. Exchange visits are also undertaken at the State, District and Block level.  Monthly Review Meetings are organised at Project level by the CDPOs and at the District level by DPOs every month.  Monitoring is done at the State level, District level, Project level and Village level for the proper implementation of the ICDS Scheme.  MIS: The state has already completed the printing of the revised MIS registers and is ready for the roll out by Nov  Estimated Budgetary requirement for the 500 per AWC/Yr will be Rs.17,27,500

TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING  The State has 1 (one) Anganwadi training centre at Diphuphar, Dimapur which is managed by the Department of Social Welfare. This training centre imparts trainings to various functionaries of the ICDS such as Job Training, Refreshers Training and Induction training. It has one Chief Instructor and two Instructors. The Department also has a mobile training unit under the ICDS training program attached to the Directorate of Social Welfare. This team conducts trainings in the Districts and Project levels for the AWWs and AWHs in the remote areas of the State.

 An amount of Rs.53,72,293 will be required during for training and capacity building.  An additional amount Rs.45,62,100 will be required during the current financial year for induction training of the new MIS.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND INVOLVEMENTS OF PRIs:  Nagaland has surged ahead over the years as far as involving the community in the successful implementation of ICDS is concerned. In lieu of PRI the State have a strong Village Council in every Village as per the Constitutional provision of Article 371(A).For the recruitment of AWWs and AWHs the community plays a major role in nominating eligible candidates to be appointed. Even for the construction of AWCs, the community provides the land and even the raw materials  For the smooth implementation of the ICDS scheme the Govt of Nagaland has already constituted the Village Anganwadi Board (VAB) on May 22 nd Every village or ward has formed the VAB.

GROWTH MONITORING AND PROMOTION  For growth monitoring, all the ICDS Projects in the State covering 3455 AWCs have already switch over to the new WHO Growth standard since  No and percentage of AWCs having functional baby and adult weigheing scale= 3455 AWCs; 100%.  No of percentage of AWCs received WHO new Growth Chart= 3455 ; 100%.  Percentage of AWCs using new MCP cards= 100%

PROPOSAL FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORTS FROM GOI  Purchase of new vehicles.  Enhancement of rate for purchase of medicine kits.  Additional funds for repair and renovation of old Anganwadi Houses.  Replacement and repair of worn out equipments, furniture's, etc in the AWCs.

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