Assessment of Infrastructural Facilities in Selected  Aanganwadi Centres in Urban Project I and Ii of  Raipur City

Dr. Mini Sharma; Dr. G.P. Soni; Dr. Nitin Sharma

Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2013

Assessment of Infrastructural Facilities in Selected Aanganwadi Centres in Urban Project I and Ii of Raipur City

Dr. Mini Sharma, Dr. G. P. Soni, Dr. Nitin Sharma

Abstract :

Introduction– It has repeatedly been found that there is discrepancy of the expected verses actually delivered services in ICDS. It has long being thought to be due to inadequate infrastructure. In this study we tried to evaluate the infrastructural facilities available at the aanganwadi centres. Aim – To evaluate the availability of essential infrastructural facilities in the surveyed Aanganwadi centres Materials and methods– Cross sectional observational study conducted at Raipur district in selected 30 aanganwadi centres [by Systemic random sampling]. Selected centres were visited & their infrastructure, facility, beneficiaries registers were checked. Aanganwadi centres were grouped according to their infrastructural setup as per the scoring system. 10% of the beneficiaries were interviewed to check the adequacy of services. Observations: 26/30 of the visited AWC were good, 4/30 average and none infrastructurally poor. All the centres had infrastructure for growth monitoring and preschool education but 172/342(50 %) of the beneficiaries were not weighted and only 54/86(63%) received preschool education. There was a deficit in record keeping in 15/30(50%) centres. All centres had adequate number of utensils and storage facility. Separate kitchen was absent in 1/30(3.33%). Cooking facilities were poor in 8/30(26.67%) and facility to clean utensils was absent in 11/30(36.67%). Conclusions– All the Aanganwadi centres were infrastructurally well equipped. Lags are due to the flaws in the implementation despite of adequate facilities. It is the moral responsibility of the AWW and the supervisor to adequately supervise the implementation of the scheme so that goals could be achieved as early as possible.