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The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme, one of the most prominent and outstanding national human resource development programmes of the GOI, was developed as a result of the decision to create a complete multi-centric programme with a limited number of services. ICDS works to improve child care by promoting the survival and development of children through an integrated strategy for combining essential services. Early stimulation and learning increased enrolment, as well as health, nutrition, water quality, and environmental sanitation. It has been found out that, A significant health issue in developing and poor nations is undernutrition, it is necessary nowadays to determine what sources of food available and whether it is available in all the parts. For that We need to determine the technique to create awareness in public especially in rural areas about importance of nutrition in one's life and problems occur due to deficiency of it. The present study focuses on collection and analysis of the available data on ICDS. The performed survey by using questionnaire and was represented in the graphical format to better understanding and analysis. Also, to provide suggestion on improvement of Integrated women and child development related to nutrition and health. The following study was done to identify the Scope of study which includes study of the present status of the ICDS and Situation Analysis, including baseline surveying and resource mapping. For this study, the data gathered from Shelkewadi village of Taluka Karveer situated in District Kolhapur of Maharashtra state. Census sampling method has been used for the present study. The sample size is 100 respondents and A sample of 100 respondents has been selected the population. For data collection, observation method has also been also been used and the sample data was collected by the Interviewing method. There were two sources of the information and data collection, The respondents serve as primary sources, whereas secondary sources include books, journals, newspapers, reports, records, etc. Interview schedule consisting of 18 questions has been used as a tool for data collection. The analysis and the interpretation of the data was done on age, occupation and education basis. The interview was done to check the opinion of the residents on the quality, concept and focus of the education. A survey on the food quality, diet and vaccination was carried out to study the awareness of ICDS and related programmes, and to get the general idea of these from the resident's perspective.