new delhi a decade after a cag audit revealed how a scheme to help infants and young children was failing a fresh report tabled in parliament on tuesday says the number of malnourished children exceeds the 40 mark in 10 states as on march 2011 the audit of the flagship integrated child development services icds says 49 children in andhra pradesh bihar 82 haryana 43 jharkhand 40 odisha 50 rajasthan 43 up 41 and delhi 50 are moderately to severely malnourished the number of severely malnourished children exceeded 1 of total weighed children in eight states including bihar chhattisgarh gujarat karnataka madhya pradesh maharashtra uttarakhand and west bengal the figure was a high 3 and 4 in maharashtra and west bengal respectively the audit covering 200607 to 201011 says 52 of anganwadis surveyed lack toilets 32 dont have drinking water and reveals 3345 gap between eligible beneficiaries and actual recipients of supplementary nutrition funds allocated for icds components are being diverted for paying salaries as against a release of rs 1753 crore to 13 states in 200809 and 15 states in 200911 the actual expenditure was rs 2853 crore another rs 57 crore was diverted to activities not permitted under icds in five states and rs 70 crore was parked in deposits blocking funds worryingly while there was no data in six states on beneficiaries of preschool kits who joined mainstream education in five states the shortfall in the number of children who took up formal education ranged between 7 and 30 ten years after reporting icds goals were not being met as health status of beneficiaries was not improving cag found functional weighing machines for babies and adults were not available in 2658 depending on the years surveyed in testchecked aganwadis around 61 aganwadis did not have their own buildings and 25 were functioning from semipucca or open or partially covered spaces medicine kits are not available in 3349 of aganwadis that formed the sample the shortfall under various categories of training ranged from 19 to 58 of targets and the supplementary nutrition was underfunded by 1536 between 2006 and 2011 some 3347 children were not weighed for monitoring their growth from 200607 to 201011 under the wheatbased nutrition programme the centre could allocate 78 of the food grain demanded by states the actual offtake by states was only 66 of the total demanded by them