Crach should benefit India less than six years, less than 0.1% Anganwadi children from the scheme

New Delhi: 15^Wan The Finance Commission envisaged 17,000 Anganwadis cum Crach (AWCS) from 2025-26. By the end of July with over 52,000 beneficiaries, only 2,448 AWCS (less than 15%) is operational.According to government data, about 9 crore children (0-6 years) were nominated in Anganwadis. Of them, barely 0.06% of them have access to croche facilities. The estimated population of children up to six years of year, the target population for the Crach, was around 16 million in 2021.From 7,930 Crache in June 2019, the number of crches has fallen continuously. Opening more cries was to promote women’s participation, but the answers to questions in Parliament suggest that the number of functional cries is decreasing. Uttar Pradesh with high fertility and a population of high child had no crush in 2019 and no one. In fact, no one has been approved. Many states with high child population such as Rajasthan, Gujarat, West Bengal and Odisha, which had several hundred crits, have become zero-crush states.By the end of July, the Ministry of Women and Child Development had approved 14,599 Anganwadi cum Crach (AWCS) based on proposals received from states and center areas. However, according to the data presented in Parliament, only one out of these excerpts have been operated. For example, 1,024 AWCC has been approved for Jharkhand and 1,000 for Odisha, but no state is operational in the state. In Telangana, 1,033 is approved and only eight are functional with 63 beneficiaries. Rajasthan does not have any sanctioned or functional AWCC.Some states have standalone cries run by NGOs and are assisted by the central government. However, the number of such crits is continuously falling. From 2,412 across India in 2023, it has only increased to 1,284. According to NITI Aayog, most states have said that they prefer to run Anganwadi cum Crach (AWCS) rather than different stand-alone cries as it increases their financial, HR and administrative burden.Following allegations of irregularities and misuse of money in the management of Crach, the Rajiv Gandhi National Critch Yojana launched in January 2006 was discontinued until 31 December 2016. According to the data presented for Parliament data in March 2017, the plan was discontinued, with about 6 million beneficiaries to about 25,000 Crachs.Since January 1, 2017, the Ministry funded the Crach services through the National Critch Scheme, in which the Stand-Alon Crech was operated as a centrally funded scheme, with 90% of the center and the remaining 10% were born by voluntary organizations.However, since the state or UT governments were not stakeholders in the scheme, it was felt that monitoring and supervision was inadequate. Therefore, the Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the Palna scheme on April 1, 2022, “to provide quality criches facilities in a safe and safe environment for children (6 months – 6 years to 6 years), nutritional assistance of children, health and cognitive development, monitoring and vaccination. CrachFacilities under Palna are provided to all mothers, even though their employment status ”. Crach should be open for 26 days a month and the work of most mothers in the area for seven days per day as per schedule.The funding ratio under Palna is 60:40 between the Union and the UTS with the Union and the State Governments and the Legislature, except for the North East and Special Category States, where the ratio is 90:10. For UTS without the Legislature, 100% funding is provided by the Center. Why this funding pattern probably is that 90–100% central funding account states and UTS for more than one-third of operating cries.With a change in funding patterns, by 2019, the number of functional crits declined by 8,000 and in June 2024, the 2,163 Crache (1,428 stand-alone and 735 AWCS) continued to decrease until reaching the lower level of all time. This number gave this year’s 2,448 creages, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, cheches, chreches, Telangana, three and eight each.