Background: In India, Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme was launched on 2nd October, 1975 as an effort to meet the holistic needs of children below 6 years, adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating mothers through the network of AnganwadiCentres (AWCs). An AWC is the focal point for the delivery of services to the community. Hence, the current study was planned to assess the basic infrastructure in AWCs of Haryana.

Methods: Across–sectional study was conducted in the 20 AWCs, included by adopting simple random sampling method, in block LakhanMajra, a rural  field  practice  area  attached   to  the   Department  of  Community  Medicine, Pt.  B. D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak from October 2016 to September 2017.The data was compiled and analysed by using SPSS 20.0 version.

Results: It was observed that all AWCs were located within 400metres of village. Almost half (45%) of the AWCs were rent free government building. Most of the buildings (70%) were Pucca type, remaining (30%) were open spaced and none of the building was Kutcha type. More than half i.e. 60% of the AWCs had adequate built size, 70% of the AWCs had availability of saparate kitchen and 60% of AWCs had availability of separate space for storage. Most of AWCs (75%) had tap water supply for drinking while rest 25% had deep hand pump facility for same purpose. Half  (50%) of AWCs didn’t have availability of toilet facility.

Conclusions: Adequate infrastructure needs to be ensured for proper functioning of AWCs which are the nodal point for service delivery under ICDS Scheme. The basic infrastructure is better in Haryana as compared to other states regarding the availability of electricity, kitchen, storage space, water supply and toilet facilities. However, the government constructed AWCs are less in Haryana as compared to other states.