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Child health in India: 14 out of 20 states cut spending on key programmes

The child-care funding cuts come at a time when the central government reduced its allocations to the ministry of women and child development over two years to 2016-17

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Children receive treatment in the Encephalitis Ward at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital where over 60 children have died over the past one week, in Gorakhpur district. (Photo: PTI)

Sravan Pallapothu | IndiaSpend New Delhi

Last Updated : May 30 2018 | 8:00 AM IST

Despite greater fiscal autonomy and higher tax revenues shared by the Centre with states, 14 of 20 states surveyed cut spending on a key nutrition programme–Supplementary Nutrition Programme or SNP–that bridges the gap between a child’s actual and ideal dietary needs, according to an analysis of national health-spending data.

The SNP is the most popular service under the national child-support system–the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)–as it is used by 35.6% of urban and 53% rural residents, according to data from the National Family Health Survey

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