There are over 2,827 anganwadis in the district, and of them 1,938 are functioning in their own buildings. Construction of over 250 more centres is under way, said L. Nagesh Bilwa, District Programme Officer, Women and Child Development Department.
The Mysuru City Corporation has agreed to give a site in each ward to construct an anganwadi. If there is no site available in a ward, MCC has promised to give a portion of the community hall built by it to run the anganwadi, Mr. Bilwa said, adding that the department was facing an uphill task to run the centres in urban places where site costs/ building rents were very high.
K. Radha, Deputy Director of Department for Women and Child Development, said baby-friendly toilets were being built in all the centres across the district. She added that owing to the mushrooming of private LKG and UKGs, parents now preferred to send their young ones there instead of to anganwadis.
While 51,027 children were admitted to anganwadis in 2014-15, the number was 48,780 in 2015-16 and 45,427 in 2016-17, she said.
