Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar — in consultation with Women and Child Development Minister Kavita Jain — on Monday accorded approval to implement Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme in mission mode through formation of societies and committees at various levels in the remaining 12 districts.
These districts would be covered under third phase of the scheme for the year 2014-15. Districts to be covered were Ambala, Jind, Hisar, Karnal, Fatehabad, Panchkula, Jhajjar, Palwal, Mewat, Sonepat, Sirsa and Kurukshetra.
Earlier in the first phase, the scheme is being implemented in five districts — Faridabad, Kaithal, Gurgaon, Panipat and Yamunanagar and four districts Mahendergarh, Bhiwani, Rohtak and Rewari have already been taken up under second phase. A total of about 8,83,012 beneficiaries including 6,63,568 children between six to 72 months of age, 26,498 severely underweight children between the same age group and 19,2,946 pregnant women and nursing mothers.
A spokesperson said that the approximate annual additional financial liability would be over `67.60 crore for the year 2014-15, out of which over `37.25 crore will be Centre share and over `30.34 crore will be State’s share.
He said the Government has revised norms per beneficiary per day. Now the children between six to 72 months of age would get supplementary nutrition of `6 per day instead of `4 earlier. Similarly, severely underweight children between the same age group would get supplementary nutrition of `9 per day instead of `6 and the pregnant women and nursing mothers would get supplementary nutrition of `7 per day instead of `5 given earlier.
ICDS scheme is a centrally sponsored flagship programme of the Government which aims at holistic development of under-six children and providing nutritional and health support to pregnant women and nursing mothers.
Water supply to be augmented
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal in consultation with Public Health Engineering Minister Narbir Singh has approved `46.09 crore for augmenting water supply and sewerage facilities and `258.82 lakh for installation of independent feeders in different parts of the State.
`29.52 crore would be spent for augmenting water supply in Ateli mandi and `5.68 crore for pondage of treated effluent of 15 MlD STP and storm water zone A at Jind. Similarly, `10.89 crore would be incurred for providing and laying of gravity sewer to abandon the existing kath mandi disposal work and IPS opposite Kundan at Jind.
An 11 kV independent feeder having 3 MlD Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) costing `8.86 lakh would be installed at Naraingarh and another similar capacity costing `17.37 lakh would be installed at Chhachrauli. He said that a 11 KV independent feeder having capacity of 6 MlD STP costing `64.88 lakh would be installed at Barwala, another 11 KV having capacity of 3.75 MlD STP costing `73.16 lakh at Narwana, 11 KV independent feeder for 10 MlD STP costing `31.52 lakh at Guhla and 11 kV independent feeder having 3.50 MlD STP costing `21.82 lakh would be set up at Pundri.