The 'Integrated Child Development Services' (ICDS) scheme provides supplementary nutrition to which beneficiary groups?

• A Children 0–6 years and pregnant and lactating women ✓
• B Children 6–14 years only (school-age)
• C Adolescent girls only under SABLA scheme
• D Only severely malnourished children (SAM)

Explanation

ICDS beneficiaries include: children 0–6 years (0–3 months: through mothers; 3–6 years: supplementary feeding at anganwadi centres) and pregnant and lactating women. The scheme provides a package of 6 services: supplementary nutrition, immunization, health check-up, referral services, pre-school education (3–6 years), and nutrition and health education (mothers). Adolescent girls were covered under SABLA/KISHORI SHAKTI YOJANA, now revised.

Reference: Park's Textbook of Preventive and Social Medicine, 27th ed.

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