(a) the State-wise number of Anganwadi Centres opened in the country under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)
and the state-wise number of proposals for opening such Anganwadi Centres pending with the Ministry for approval;
(b) the names of blocks in Himachal Pradesh which have been included in the Integrated Child Development Project
but the post of programme officer has not been created for these blocks; and
(c) the reasons for not creating the said posts so far?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI JASKAUR MEENA)
(a): The State-wise number of functional Anganwadi Centres under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme,
as on 30.6.2003, is given in the Statement annexed.
Requests have been received from the States of Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh,
J & K, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra for sanction of additional Anganwadi Centres. However, in
view of resource constraints, the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme is being discontinued within the
existing sanction of 5652 projects with no further expansion in the X Plan. This position has been intimated to all the
States.
(b): As per schematic norms, there is provision for a post of `Programme Officer` at the District level. In Himachal
Pradesh, the post of Programme Officer have been sanctioned for all 12 districts.
(c): Does not arise.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 259 FOR 3.12.2003 BY SHRI SURESH CHANDEL
REGARDING ANGANWADI CENTRES.
Sl.No. State/UT No.of functional Anganwadi Centres (as on 30.6.2003)
1 Andhra Pradesh 52517 2 Arunachal Pradesh 1319 3 Assam 19719 4 Bihar 17683 5 Chhattisgarh 20149 6 Goa 1011 7 Gujarat 33135 8 Haryana 13546 9 Himachal Pradesh 7349 10 J & K 10125 11 Jharkhnad 13495 12 Karnataka 40288 13 Kerala 24368 14 Madhya Pradesh 47048 15 Maharashtra 56749 16 Manipur 4497 17 Meghalaya 2209 18 Mizoram 1193 19 Nagaland 2576 20 Orissa 32013 21 Punjab 14017 22 Rajasthan 35625 23 Sikkim 495 24 Tamil Nadu 31713 25 Tripura 3635 26 Uttar Pradesh 57333 27 Uttaranchal 3989 28 West Bengal 51819 29 A & N Islands 429 30 Chandigarh 300 31 Delhi 3842 32 D & N Haveli 138 33 Daman & Diu 87 34 Lakshadweep 74 35 Pondicherry 677
All India 605162