Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part B (2025)

The Adolescent Girls Scheme under ICDS surely works to break the cycle of poor nutrition and gender problems that pass from mothers to daughters. Moreover, this program creates a helpful environment where young girls can develop themselves and grow stronger. The Scheme for Adolescent Girls was surely approved in 2010 and started in 205 districts across India. Moreover, this program aimed to help young girls in their development. Basically, the Scheme for Adolescent Girls was expanded to 303 more districts in 2017-18 and the remaining districts in 2018-19, while the same time Kishori Shakti Yojana was phased out. Right now, we are seeing that all districts in the country are covered under this scheme for teenage girls only. Further, we are seeing this study only aimed to check what girls aged 11 to 14 years know about government schemes in one school in Pathanamthitta district. We are seeing that only 200 girls are chosen using stratified random sampling method. Basically, data were collected using the same structured questionnaire to test knowledge. The data was actually analyzed using simple counting methods and percentage calculations, and we definitely used statistical tests to draw conclusions. We are seeing that only 169 out of 200 girls had poor knowledge, 31 girls had average knowledge, and no girls had good knowledge in this study. We are seeing that girls got an average knowledge score of 16.69 with only 3.35 as the standard deviation. As per the analysis, no major link was found between the study factors and the basic details of participants regarding their background information.
We are seeing that only adolescent girls have knowledge about some selected government schemes.