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Entitlements
The National Food Security Act, 2013 guarantees:
for children below the age of 6 months: exclusive breastfeeding will be promoted
an age-appropriate "meal" which meets specified nutritional norms will be provided free of charge through the local anganwadi
Every anganwadi shall have facilities for cooking meals, drinking water and sanitation
Supreme Court Orders
Planning Commission Reports
Final Report of the sub-group on ICDS and Nutrition (Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Working Group on the Child Development for the Eleventh Five Year Plan, August 2006)
Report of the sub-group on Child Nutrition (Working Group on Food and Nutrition Security, Planning Commission of India, December 2006)
Report of the Working Group on Integrating Nutrition with Health: 11th Five-year Plan, 2007-2012 (Government of India, Ministry of Women and Child Development, November 2006)
Background note to eleventh plan for steering committee on nutrition
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Application form for Anganwadi Centres on demand [Hindi] - in any rural or urban settlement which has atleast 40 children under the age of six years and no anganwadi
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