Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls

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    Performance Audit on Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls in Arunachal Pradesh
    (CAG of India, 21-02-2019) CAG of India
    In November 2010, the Government of India (GoI) launched the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) or SABLA, a centrally sponsored scheme, under the platform of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) with the objectives of (i) enabling self development and empowerment of adolescent girls (AGs); (ii) improving their nutrition and health status; (iii) spreading awareness on health, hygiene, nutrition, Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH); (iv) family and child care, and mainstreaming out of school AGs into formal/non formal education, etc. None of the 80 AWCs inspected under the selected 16 CDPOs out of 28 CDPOs maintained the prescribed registers for recording details of AGs and the services delivered. There was a huge shortfall in allotment of funds provided for the ‘nutrition’ component. As a result, against the entitlement of INR five per day for each AG, the actual allotment worked out between INR 0.28 to INR 1.96 per day during the period 2012-17. The actual procurement of IFA tablets was less than the requirement – the shortage ranged from 23 per cent to 62 per cent which would have adversely impacted the adolescent growth of AGs. There was shortfall (71 per cent) in conducting ‘Kishori Diwas’. Eight out of 16 selected CDPOs did not enrol any out-of-school AGs during 2012-17. The number of out-of-school AGs admitted to schools every year in the remaining eight CDPOs was just a fraction of the total number out-of-school AGs. The CDPOs prepared the monthly progress reports at their level and forwarded them to the WCD without obtaining reports from the Supervisors and AWWs and without routing the reports through the Deputy Directors (DDs). Thus, the reports of the CDPOs did not reflect the actual services provided under the RGSEAG at the ground level.