Rajasthan plans electrification of anganwadis

Rajasthan’s Churu district, which regularly information the most well liked summer time at over 50 levels Celsius and reels underneath a extreme chilly wave throughout winters, could quickly see its anganwadi centres related with energy provide for the primary time because the State authorities plans electrification of 37,000 anganwadis as half of its efforts to enhance infrastructure amenities for beneficiaries of authorities programmes.

The proposal is value over ₹260 crore, which is able to embody one-time expenditure on set up of solar energy models and recurring value of ₹55 crore yearly in direction of electrical energy invoice.

There are a complete of 82,000 anganwadis in Rajasthan, however the proposal is for these amenities which can be outdoors college premises.

‘Better attendance’

“We hope the move will result in improvement in attendance at anganwadis,” Rajasthan Women and Child Development Secretary K.K. Pathak instructed The Puucho.

“The State government’s attention towards electrification is impressive, given that we have seen that while the Central government has promised to prioritise infrastructural facilities such as toilets and water supply, progress on the ground has been slower than the current need, especially with COVID,” says Avani Kapur, Director, Accountability Initiative.

Last yr, a senior official of the Union authorities mentioned that there have been plans to improve 2.5 lakh out of the whole 14 lakh anganwadis within the nation. As per the federal government information offered in Parliament, 3.6 lakh anganwadi centres don’t have bathroom amenities and 1.6 lakh don’t have ingesting water amenities.

As of June 2019, as many as 12% anganwadi centres additionally operated out of kutcha buildings, together with all centres in Arunachal Pradesh, 95% centres in Nagaland, 86% in Manipur, 41% in Bihar and 19% in Tamil Nadu, based on an evaluation by the Accountability Initiative.