More than 60 per cent Anganwadi Centres in the State do not have own buildings, Women and Child Development Minister Usha Devi informed in the State Assembly on Thursday.
Replying a query of BJP MlA Dilip Ray, she told the Assembly that a total of 71,306 numbers of Anganwadi Centres are operating in the State, out of which 28,187 have own buildings.
To build 13,556 centres’s buildings, the Central Government had given `49,375, 75 in which a total of 7,616 houses have already made.
The Minister informed that though fund was sanctioned for construction of Anganwadi Centres, 10,510 Anganwadi Centres were undergoing 8,128 new centres are yet to be started.
Beside, 24,481 Kendras don’t have own buildings.
Cuttack district has 3,205 centres, out of which, 685 have own buildings. In Bhadrak district, out of 2,435 centres, 522 have own buildings.
In Jagatsinghpur, out of 1,840 centres, 391 have own buildings. In Jajpur, 551 have own buildings out of 2,603 centres.
In Kendrapada, 255 have own buildings, out of 2,147 centres and in Khordha, out of 2,517 centres, 555 have own buildins.
In Puri district, 364 centres have own buildings and in Subarnpur, out of 1,571 centres, 180 have own buildings.
In Baleswar, Baragad, Ganjam, Keonjhar and Sundargad districts, 1,675, 1,651, 2,530, 1,001, 718 Anganwadi Centres are obtaining, which don’t have own buildings.