The Women and Child Development Department will construct ten more child care centers at Balrampur, Mungeli, Balod and Sukma districts during fiscal 2017-18.
The other care centers will be opened for the rehabilitation of female drug addicts at Surajpur, Bemetara, Kondagaon districts, officials informed.
Children Homes will be built for those under the age of nine years at Raipur as they need care and protection . The children are put at these homes on the directives of Child Welfare Committee.
There are six State Government and 43 non-Government run Child Care Centers in the entire State in which 983 boys and 725 girls reside.