More than five lakh beneficiaries of the capital have availed the facility of the Supplementary Nutrition Food (SNF) of Government of NCT of Delhi. The Department of Women and Child Development (WCD) has implemented a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to ensure the delivery of supplementary nutrition to the beneficiaries at their doorsteps through 10,755 Anganwadi Centres (AWC’s) of all eleven districts of Delhi. This was informed by Delhi Women and Child Development Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam after a review meeting of the department held at his camp office.

Delhi Women and Child Development Minister informed that after the implementation of departmental SOP, the distribution will be done on fixed weekdays in every fortnight of the month and the existing system of giving THR (Take Home Ration) entitlement of 13 days for every fortnight will continue as such.

Gautam said, “It has been decided that all the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) projects in Delhi are clubbed into two clusters, 48 projects in one and 47 projects in another, known as Cluster ‘A’ and Cluster ‘B’. The Cluster ‘A’ includes the district offices of South, South East, West, Central, North West-I, North West-II, North, North East, East and Cluster ‘B’ includes South East, South West, West, Central, North West-I, North, North-East, East respectively.”

Delhi Women and Child Development Minister said that all Child Development Project Officers (CDPO’s) are instructed to ensure that SNF in the proper package are received at AWCs in advance as per the fixed schedule of departmental SOP and no SNF would be accepted thereafter. All district officers and CDPO’s shall submit the required certificate regarding checking of stock of a requisite number of AWC’s one day prior to distribution. Any laxity in this matter will be viewed seriously.