Women and Child Development Minister Maya Singh said that the State would have 4,905 new Anganwadis and mini Anganwadi centres and every member of State Assembly could establish five Anganwadis and two Mini Anganwadis in their constituency area. Usha Kiran and Udita projects would be implemented in all the 51 districts of the State.
She was replying to the discussion on budgetary demands of her department in the State Assembly on Thursday.
She said that women’s hostel would be established in four cities. Women members of Tejaswani and Shourya Dal would be trained in driving and no fee would be charged for driving license. Besides, they would be provided with special training for recruitment in police and special armed forces.
The recruitment process of Anganwadi workers would be made online. Arrangement of direct online transfer of rent of the Anagwadi premises in the owner’s bank account from treasury would be made.
For strengthening informal education before school additional workers would be arranged among the selected Anganwadi workers.
Under pilot project of Common Application Software Anganwadi workers of 15 districts would be provided with mobile phones. Under the ladli laxmi Yojana 22 lakh girls have been benefitted.
The per cent of severely malnourished children had decreased from 12.6 to 9.2 which has been achieved from community support for good nutrition. Mother’s milk is the best feed for a child and had achieved 22 per cent decline in the deaths of children till five years of age and to strengthen it 406 breast feeding centers at bus stand, railway stations and government offices would be established, she added.