Haryana Government has decided to revise the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP) under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Mission and has also enhanced the amount to be spent on the programme.
A spokesman of Haryana Women and Child Development Department said that under SNP, milk would be introduced in Bhiwani, Narnaul, Rohtak, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Yamuna Nagar, Rewari, Panipat and Kaithal.
SNP beneficiaries would be provided with milk twice a week besides their daily nutrition and three times milk in a week for severely underweight children. He said that under new financial norms, the daily supplementary nutrition of children upto six years age has been increased to Rs6 from Rs4 per day, of pregnant and lactating women has been increased to Rs7 from Rs5 per day and of children severely underweight has been increased to Rs9 from Rs6 per day.
The children in the age group of six months to 18 months are already being provided with dalia (porridge) daily; 18 months to three years children are being given stuffed prantha, aloo poori, meetha chawal, meetha dalia, gulgule and pulao.