Lok Sabha Question No. 3405 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-08-08
Subject: Delay in Fund Disbursement in Karnataka
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Dr. K Sudhakar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3405

## TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.08.2025

## DELAY IN FUND DISBURSEMENT IN KARNATAKA

## 3405.  DR. K SUDHAKAR:

Will the Minister of Women and Child Development be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has noticed a long delay in disbursement of funds for the welfare of women and children in Karnataka, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether any mismanagement has been observed with respect to schemes being implemented for the welfare of women and children in Karnataka and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether the Government has data with respect to total number of Anganwadi centres that operate from their own buildings in Karnataka, if so, the details thereof;
- (d) whether  structural and  functional analysis  of  these  Anganwadis  have  been conducted, if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and
- (e) the  total  number  of  AWCs  in  Karnataka  has  adequate  infrastructure  facilities, poor infrastructure correlate with physical and mental health of children?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SAVITRI THAKUR)

(a) & (b) The Union Government releases funds for Centrally Sponsored Schemes like Mission  Saksham  Anganwadi  &  Poshan  2.0,  Mission  Shakti  and  Mission  Vatsalya whenever the State/UT has complied with Single Nodal Agency (SNA) norms as prescribed by the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, viz. (i) the State should make an expenditure more than 75% of the previous funds released; (ii) Unutilized balance in SNA account of the State should be less than half of the grant for one quarter, (iii) the State should deposit the interest earned against the central share released, and (iv) there should be no deficit in transfer of funds from State Treasury to SNA. Further, the actual funds are released  in  a  financial  year  after  adjusting  the  unspent  balance  available  with  the State/excess expenditure incurred by the State during previous Financial Year.

Further,  in  order  to  ensure  timely  disbursement  of  funds  to  States/UTs  for  effective implementation  of  the  scheme,  SNA  SPARSH  model  has  been  introduced  by  the Government  for  release  of  funds  'Just-in-time'  to  improve  the  efficiency  of  financial management system. All  States  and  UTs  with  legislature  are  covered  under  the  SNA SPARSH model in phased  manner. The new  model  implemented  by  the  Government allows raising expenditure bills as per requirement thereby facilitating timely and only need based fund flow from Central and State accounts.

(c)  to  (e)  The  details  of  the  total  number  of  Anganwadi  Centres  (AWCs)  in  Karnataka, including those operating from government-owned buildings, as per the Poshan Tracker data are as under:

|   Total no of AWCs |   AWCs in Own Buildings |
|--------------------|-------------------------|
|              69922 |                   47693 |

## Infrastructure facilities in AWCs in Karnataka as per Poshan Tracker data (Number of AWCs):

|   Permanent electricity connection |   Solar- powered electric connection |   Piped water connection in AWC |   Drinking water connection |   Functional toilet |   Functional Kitchen |
|------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|---------------------|----------------------|
|                              64229 |                                 4340 |                           55844 |                       64305 |               65538 |                64760 |

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