An appraisal of the SABLA: Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of the adolescent girls

The present study is for conducted to evaluate critically a Government project named Sabla: Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of the Adolescent Girls. The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, in the year 2000, came up with a scheme called Kishori Shakti Yojana (KSY), which was implemented using the infrastructure of the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS). The objective of this scheme was to improve the nutrition and health status of girls in the age‐group of 11 to 18 years, to equip them to improve and upgrade their home‐based and vocational skills, and to promote their overall development, including awareness about their health, personal hygiene, nutrition and family welfare and management. Thereafter, the Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) was initiated as a pilot project in the year 2002-03 in 51 identified districts across the country to address the problem of under‐nutrition among AGs(Adolescent Girls).This evaluation is being done to review the performance of the programme and to evaluate weather this project has being able to achieve the target, it was meant for.