International Journal of Advanced Research in Management and Social Sciences
Year : 2017, Volume : 6, Issue : 8
First page : ( 56) Last page : ( 66)
Online ISSN : 2278-6236.

Swami vivekananda contribution on palli mangal in India and how ICDS can benefit

Dr. Acharya Soumen

Consultant, National Institute of Public Co-operation and Child Development, New Delhi, India

Online published on 5 December, 2019.

Abstract

Swami Vivekananda, took initiative to rebuild villages through a new rural development project called‘Pallimangal’. ‘Pallimangal’ is the Bengali word, meaning rural welfare. Thus the pallimangal project was started in the year 1980 initially with some welfare programmmes for the villages in Hooghly District. Since then it has been working for the upliftment of the common masses especially poor & down trodden people with an emphasis on Women folk in the field of health, environment, education, economic, agriculture, social, & cultural development with the objectives of inculcating the spirit of self reliance, self determination & selflessness The integrated child development services ICDS program is poised for universal implementation in India to provide services to children, pregnant & lactating women and adolescent girls in close co-ordination with the health service for improvement of health status & overall holistic development of children and other beneficiaries. However there remain question on its effectiveness in delivering desired services. The need for providing children with improved childhood necessities through holistic approach involving co-operation & liaison between disciplines & agencies are well recognized in India. While ICDS has placed as the pivotal programme for integrating all mother child care service the skill of the functionaries in coordinating& tapping all existing potentialities very crucial. Today ICDS represents one of the world's largest & most unique programmes for early childhood development an initiative unparalleled in history. ICDS is designed to promote holistic development of children under six year, through the strengthened capacity of caregivers & communities and improved access to basic services at the community level. The programme is specifically designed to reach disadvantaged & low income groups for effective disparity reduction.

The programme provides an integrated approach for converging basic services for improved childcare early stimulation & learning, health & nutrition & environmental sanitation targeting young children expect out & nursing mother & women/adolescent girls groups. The country wide ubiquitous mega scheme of ICDS with a wider centralized network about lakh anganwadi centre encountered number of input & process based functional problems operating a divergent ways for non-accomplishment of desired objectives as specified in the scheme. Mobilizing woman for promoting their own health nutritional wellbeing&self-development as that of their children is an underlying principle of ICDS. Efforts to increase the participation of voluntary agencies in ICDS have been underway to identify & replicate innovative community based sustainable approaches. Strengthening growth monitoring & promotion of young children with the participation of mother's communities it helps in the whole development of the society as a whole.

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Keywords

ICDS, Pallimangal.

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