WHEN WILL SUNABEDA KIDS GET ICDS BENEFITS?

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Tuesday, 06 February 2018 |  | NUAPADA | in Bhubaneswar

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Will the children of Khadang village of the Sunabeda plateau in Nuapada district ever get supplementary nutrition (SN) under the ICDS? It still remains a question even after a year of the issue being raised by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Nuapada, and the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), New Delhi.
Twenty-two children of this remote hamlet of Sunabeda village have been enrolled at the Anganwadi Centre of Junapani, but due to long distance of the centre, the children never get the benefits of the ICDS, not even the immunisation facility.
The issue was raised in a story in The Pioneer in March 2017. The NCPCR had called for a report from the district administration basing on this report.
The District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), responding to a letter from the CWC, Nuapada in December, 2016 and subsequently to the query of the NCPCR in March, 2017 regarding non-availability of supplementary nutrition (SN) to the children of Khadang and Datunam, had reported that the hamlets have been tagged to the AW Centres of Junapani and Sanbaheli, respectively, and the children are given dry food (Chhatua and eggs) every month at the village point.
The DCPU further informed that the administration had submitted a proposal to the State Women and Child Development Department for opening AW Sub-Centres in these hamlets. More than a year has passed, but the centre has not been opened. Women of Datunam inform that they go to the centre at Sanbaheli and collect a packet of Chhatua and five eggs each every month. But the people of Khadang who have to walk for more than 15 km to reach the centre at Junapani deny getting such support.

The NCPCR on January 17 this year raised the issue again. The Nuapada Collector has been asked to submit a report on the status of children and SNP in these habitations within ten days. The Collector has also been asked to provide information on the status of the proposal submitted to the department for opening 104 AW Sub-Centres in different inaccessible areas of the district along with details of children and pregnant women in those habitations.

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