When did the government launch the ICDS?
On October 2, 1975, ICDS was launched due to rising rates of morbidity, mortality, and malnutrition. The ICDS programme was also put on hold in 1978 by the government of Morarji Desai. Still, it was reintroduced by the tenth five-year plan to give all children access to primary education and lower childhood malnutrition rates.