Wheat Based Supplementary Nutrition Programme

The scheme was started with the twin objective of providing supplementary nutrition to children and popularising wheat intake. Department of Food and Public Distribution places at the disposal of the Department of Women and Child Development about 100 thousand tonnes of wheat from the central reserves annually and that Department, in turn, sub-allocates this wheat among States which utilize the wheat mostly to produce wheat based ready-to-eat nutrition supplements.

• With the spread of ICDS, this wheat or its products are increasingly being utilised for distribution of supplementary nutrition in ICDS and mid-day-meal programmes. The wheat is supplied to the State Governments by the Food Corporation of India at the same subsidised rates as for the public distribution system.