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Integrated Child Development Scheme was introduced in India with an objective to provide preschool education, food and healthcare services to children below 6 years in India, the Government of India has propelled the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) as a welfare programme in order to achieve health equality for women and children who belong to under-privileged and deprived sections of society. Since the study elaborates the implementation and utilization pattern of the ICDS schemes in India mainly to achieve maximum beneficiaries utilizing various scheme benefits across the state provided with food, clothing, scholarships, and other basic educational facilities for children who are found to be deprived because of illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, vulnerable socio-economic conditions that are increasingly found in rural counterparts than urban. The ICDS programmes are targeted especially for children as these children who belong to low socio-economic background are in need of the effective initiation and implementation of programmes which can help them to lead a better life. Therefore, ICDS have its significant role in building better future for children by covering maximum beneficiaries utilizing ICDS schemes for development and progress of nation.