The comprehensive audit will cover eight primary facilities: electricity connections, television sets, drinking water pipeline connections, reverse osmosis (RO) purification systems, kitchens, toilets, growth-monitoring devices, and kitchen gardens
Anand Khandagle, district programme officer for women and child development (WCD) department in Pune, stated that the district has 6,094 anganwadis spread across rural and urban pockets. Because they are built on ample land owned by the centers themselves, allowing for every facility to be set up, “Almost 95 per cent of anganwadis in rural areas face no physical infrastructure issues.
Inspections of kitchen sheds within the anganwadis and operations run by self-help groups (SHGs) have already been completed over the last couple of months,” said Madhavi Sardeshmukh, commissioner, integrated child development scheme (ICDS), Maharashtra. The real problem arises in urban centers where land is scarce and property rents are significantly higher than the budgetary allocations provided by the central govt,” Khandagle said. “The idea is to physically verify whether the infrastructure is present and in working condition. For example, if a centre has been provided with a television set, it must also have an active electricity connection. We need to identify where the shortfalls are and then improve on them. The comprehensive audit will cover eight primary facilities: electricity connections, television sets, drinking water pipeline connections, reverse osmosis (RO) purification systems, kitchens, toilets, growth-monitoring devices, and kitchen gardens.