The state government has created different statutory bodies at various for inter-sectoral convergence to support quality implementation of ICDS. The state government has also notified these committees with details of constitution, frequency of meetings and role and responsibilities of these committees for coordinated functioning.
Convergence and coordination is inbuilt in ICDS by design and it is well established fact that successful implementation of the ICDS scheme depends, to a large extent,on related interdisciplinary inter- departmental efforts since the services of the scheme are interlinked and the beneficiaries are common. The ICDS services require the involvement of departments like Health, Education, Public Health Engineering, PRI etc in order to reach its objectives. With a view to have a proper co-ordination, the Government of Assam in pursuance of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Govt. of India, has constituted different committees at different levels. These are mentioned below:
A district level Monitoring, Vigilance and review Committee has been constituted for all districts (including Sixth Schedule Area).
The committee convenes its meeting every six months (revised) instead of every quarter and makes an announcement of implementation of the scheme of the respective district and submit minutes to the State Government.
This Committee is constituted by the Government on the 19th of March, 2009
The Member Secretary places the record of activities taken up under ICDS and SNP before the committee and keep record of the proceedings of the committee’s meetings in a separate register.
The Committee meets once in every three months. The CDPO forwards a copy of minutes of the committee meeting to the District Social Welfare and Divisional Programme Officer concerned.
To ensure effective functioning of the Angawadi Centres and peoples participation in the management of AWCs, the Government of Assam has constituted the Angawadi Centre Management Committee in all the ICDS Projects of the State.
The term of the Anganwadi Centre Management Committee remains for two years from the date of constitution.
It ensures smooth flow of the services of Anganwadi Centres in the village level. It also supervises timely and proper distribution of SNP, ICDS materials, and Construction of AWC.
Mothers of children registered in Anganwadi Centres together form a group known as Matri Sahayak Gut/Mothers Support Group that helps in management and supervision of ICDS scheme, mobilization of beneficiaries and counselling.