Integrated Child Development Services Programme--need for reappraisal.

There has been deep concern, but not much action for the past several decades, about the prevalence of malnutrition among young children in India. Most observers and policy makers have tended to attribute it to the prevalence of poverty, and since alleviation of that is a herculean task, they have just not faced upto the basic nature of the problem, but found recourse in supplementary nutrition programmes, of which the Integrated Child Development Services Programme (ICDS), is the most important one.