Location of anganwadis on the web
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The central government has asked all states to put the location of anganwadi centres on their websites and to display the Integrated Child Development Services logo on boards at anganwadi centres to bring greater transparency and spread awareness
In order to bring in more transparency, the Centre has requested all states to upload the location of anganwadi centres on the websites of their respective women and child development departments dealing with the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme.
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development has also asked the states to display boards with the name of the anganwadi centre and the ICDS logo at the entrance of the centre, in order to improve awareness about the ICDS scheme.
Anganwadis are government-run mother-and-child-care centres that provide outreach services to vulnerable infants (in the 1-6 age-groups) and pregnant women in need of immunisation, healthy food, clean water, and sanitation.
The ICDS, which completed 30 years on October 2, is being expanded to create more childcare centres. A proposal to universalise the ICDS came up in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, but it did not materialise. Even as the physical infrastructure for setting up these centres is in place in most states, the problem of appointing anganwadi workers remains unresolved across many parts of the country.
Source: The Indian Express, October 12, 2010
The Economist, September 23, 2010