ICDS: official guidelines, orders and circulars

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This page collects significant documents issued by the Government of India and by State Governments regarding the ICDS.

Note that at the Central Government level, the ICDS comes under the purview of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (http://wcd.nic.in). This Ministry has recently been carved out of the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Till early 2006, the ICDS was dealt with by the Department of Women and Child Development under the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

• Final Report of the sub-group on ICDS and Nutrition (Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Working Group on the Child Development for the Eleventh Five Year Plan, August 2006)
• Report of the sub-group on Child Nutrition (Working Group on Food and Nutrition Security, Planning Commission of India, December 2006)
• Report of the Working Group on Integrating Nutrition with Health: 11th Five-year Plan, 2007-2012 (Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development, November 2006)
• Affidavit to the Supreme Court of India on the functioning of the ICDS (submitted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development on behalf of the Union of India in the "Right to Food" case, March 2007)
• Background note to eleventh plan for steering committee on nutrition
• Official guidelines for the ICDS programme are available at http://wcd.nic.in/udisha/htm/abouticds.htm
• National Plan of Action for Children, Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2005
• Circular of the Ministry of Women and Child Development stating all eligible beneficiaries must be covered under the ICDS.
• National Guidelines on Infant and Young Child Feeding, Department of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, 2004.
• Report of hearing by the Rajya Sabha Petitions Committee on institutionalising ICDS as a regular department and regularising the services of Anganwadi workers.

Last updated: 31 March 2008