Lok Sabha Question No. 87 (STARRED), answered on 2023-12-08
Subject: Anganwadi Centres in Uttar Pradesh
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: R.K. Singh Patel

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. *87

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.12.2023

## ANGANWADI CENTRES IN UTTAR PRADESH

- *87      SHRI R.K. SINGH PATEL:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the number of Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) in Uttar Pradesh, district-wise;
- (b) the amount spent and number of beneficiaries therein, year and district-wise;
- (c) whether the government is contemplating to open new AWCs in various States, particularly in Uttar Pradesh; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (A) TO (D) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 87 TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.12.2023 RAISED BY SHRI  R.  K.  SINGH  PATEL  REGARDING  'ANGANWADI  CENTRES  IN  UTTAR PRADESH'

- a.  The  district  wise  number  of  Anganwadi  Centres  in  Uttar  Pradesh  is  at Annexure I.
- b.  The  details  of  the  funds  released  under  Poshan  2.0  (including  Anganwadi Services Scheme, POSHAN Abhiyaan and Scheme for Adolescent Girls) and number of beneficiaries registered on Poshan Tracker is placed at Annexure II .

(c) and (d) The Government has decided to upgrade all Mini AWCs with one worker to a full-fledged Anganwadi Centre with one worker and one helper. Out of 1,16,288 Mini AWCs in 23 States/ UTs, orders have been issued for up gradation of 42,268 Mini AWCs in 12 States/ UTs. Uttar Pradesh has 22,290 Mini AWCs. The State has been asked to submit proposal for up-gradation of Mini AWCs to full-fledged AWCs. The Ministry is also focused on operationalizing all the sanctioned AWCs in the States. There is no proposal to set up new Anganwadi Centres. The State/UTs wise statement of Mini AWCs across the country is placed at Annexure III .

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Annexure I STATEMENT REFERRED TO PART (A) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 87 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 8.12.2023

| No. of AWCs in UP (District wise)   | No. of AWCs in UP (District wise)   |
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
| District                            | No. of AWCs                         |
| Agra                                | 2988                                |
| Aligarh                             | 3042                                |
| Ambedkar Nagar                      | 2554                                |
| Amethi                              | 1946                                |
| Amroha                              | 1430                                |
| Auraiya                             | 1791                                |
| Ayodhya                             | 2382                                |
| Azamgarh                            | 5597                                |
| Baghpat                             | 1338                                |
| Bahraich                            | 3501                                |
| Ballia                              | 3500                                |
| Balrampur                           | 1885                                |
| Banda                               | 1705                                |
| Barabanki                           | 3057                                |
| Bareilly                            | 2857                                |
| Basti                               | 2657                                |
| Bhadohi                             | 1507                                |
| Bijnor                              | 3236                                |
| Budaun                              | 2941                                |
| Bulandshahr                         | 3972                                |
| Chandauli                           | 1907                                |
| Chitrakoot                          | 960                                 |
| Deoria                              | 3248                                |
| Etah                                | 1865                                |
| Etawah                              | 1568                                |
| Farrukhabad                         | 1763                                |
| Fatehpur                            | 2917                                |
| Firozabad                           | 2563                                |
| Gautam Buddha Nagar                 | 1117                                |
| Ghaziabad                           | 1371                                |
| Ghazipur                            | 4137                                |
| Gonda                               | 3098                                |
| Gorakhpur                           | 4254                                |
| Hamirpur                            | 1500                                |
| Hapur                               | 889                                 |
| Hardoi                              | 3939                                |
| Hathras                             | 1715                                |
| Jalaun                              | 1819                                |
| Jaunpur                             | 5323                                |

| Jhansi           |   1382 |
|------------------|--------|
| Kannauj          |   1625 |
| Kanpur Dehat     |   1792 |
| Kanpur Nagar     |   2170 |
| Kasganj          |   2318 |
| Kaushambi        |   1777 |
| Kushi Nagar      |   4209 |
| Lakhimpur Kheri  |   3565 |
| Lalitpur         |   1127 |
| Lucknow          |   2734 |
| Maharajganj      |   3164 |
| Mahoba           |    881 |
| Mainpuri         |   1801 |
| Mathura          |   2363 |
| Mau              |   2597 |
| Meerut           |   2068 |
| Mirzapur         |   2668 |
| Moradabad        |   2774 |
| Muzaffarnagar    |   2274 |
| Pilibhit         |   1961 |
| Pratapgarh       |   3269 |
| Prayagraj        |   4511 |
| Raebareli        |   2839 |
| Rampur           |   2701 |
| Saharanpur       |   3422 |
| Sambhal          |   1773 |
| Sant Kabir Nagar |   1769 |
| Shahjahanpur     |   2920 |
| Shamli           |    989 |
| Shravasti        |    928 |
| Siddharth Nagar  |   3155 |
| Sitapur          |   4274 |
| Sonbhadra        |   2079 |
| Sultanpur        |   2512 |
| Unnao            |   3357 |
| Varanasi         |   3983 |
| Total            | 189570 |

Annexure II STATEMENT REFERRED TO PART (B) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION

## NO. 87 DUE FOR ANSWER ON 8.12.2023

| Funds released under Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0 for the year 2023-24 (upto 07.12.2023)   | Funds released under Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0 for the year 2023-24 (upto 07.12.2023)   | Funds released under Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0 for the year 2023-24 (upto 07.12.2023)   |
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| S.No                                                                                           | Name of State/UT                                                                               | Fund released (Rs. in lakhs)                                                                   |
| 1                                                                                              | 2                                                                                              | 3                                                                                              |
| 1ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                                | 1ANDHRA PRADESH                                                                                | 17072.27                                                                                       |
| 2BIHAR                                                                                         | 2BIHAR                                                                                         | 103694.73                                                                                      |
| 3CHHATTISGARH                                                                                  | 3CHHATTISGARH                                                                                  | 28634.89                                                                                       |
| 4GOA                                                                                           | 4GOA                                                                                           | 619.23                                                                                         |
| 5GUJARAT                                                                                       | 5GUJARAT                                                                                       | 22446.86                                                                                       |
| 6HARYANA                                                                                       | 6HARYANA                                                                                       | 11054.94                                                                                       |
| 7HIMACHAL PRADESH                                                                              | 7HIMACHAL PRADESH                                                                              | 16138.73                                                                                       |
| 8JAMMU & KASHMIR                                                                               | 8JAMMU & KASHMIR                                                                               | 37408.37                                                                                       |
| 9JHARKHAND                                                                                     | 9JHARKHAND                                                                                     | 33329.56                                                                                       |
| 10KARNATAKA                                                                                    | 10KARNATAKA                                                                                    | 73657.07                                                                                       |
| 11KERALA                                                                                       | 11KERALA                                                                                       | 18371.41                                                                                       |
| 12MADHYA PRADESH                                                                               | 12MADHYA PRADESH                                                                               | 73862.93                                                                                       |
| 13MAHARASHTRA                                                                                  | 13MAHARASHTRA                                                                                  | 117208.52                                                                                      |
| 14ODISHA                                                                                       | 14ODISHA                                                                                       | 59405.09                                                                                       |
| 15PUNJAB                                                                                       | 15PUNJAB                                                                                       | 15055.31                                                                                       |
| 16RAJASTHAN                                                                                    | 16RAJASTHAN                                                                                    | 71209.77                                                                                       |
| 17TAMIL NADU                                                                                   | 17TAMIL NADU                                                                                   | 43869.39                                                                                       |
| 18TELANGANA                                                                                    | 18TELANGANA                                                                                    | 11777.08                                                                                       |
| 19UTTAR PRADESH                                                                                | 19UTTAR PRADESH                                                                                | 145144.26                                                                                      |
| 20UTTARAKHAND                                                                                  | 20UTTARAKHAND                                                                                  | 15212.54                                                                                       |
| 21WEST BENGAL                                                                                  | 21WEST BENGAL                                                                                  | 63807.13                                                                                       |
| 22DELHI                                                                                        | 22DELHI                                                                                        | 8778.10                                                                                        |
| 23PUDUCHERRY                                                                                   | 23PUDUCHERRY                                                                                   | 408.72                                                                                         |
| 24ANDAMAN & NICOBAR                                                                            | 24ANDAMAN & NICOBAR                                                                            | 666.99                                                                                         |
| 25CHANDIGARH                                                                                   | 25CHANDIGARH                                                                                   | 728.96                                                                                         |
| 26DNH & DD                                                                                     | 26DNH & DD                                                                                     | 581.80                                                                                         |
| 27LADAKH                                                                                       | 27LADAKH                                                                                       | 1008.78                                                                                        |

| 28LAKSHADWEEP       |           75.19 |
|---------------------|-----------------|
| 29ARUNACHAL PRADESH |  7930.17        |
| 30ASSAM             | 88639.4         |
| 31MANIPUR           | 13218.3         |
| 32MEGHALAYA         | 10937.9         |
| 33MIZORAM           |  3552.39        |
| 34NAGALAND          | 11178.4         |
| 35SIKKIM            |    10.49        |
| 36TRIPURA           |  9822.46        |
| Grand Total         |     1.12465e+06 |

Utilization not due

## District  wise  number  of  Beneficiaries  in  Uttar  Pradesh  registered  on  Poshan Tracker (Oct. 23)

| District            |   Total Benefici aries |   Lactating Mothers |   Pregnant Women |   Children 0-6M |   Children 6M-3Y |   Children 3-6Y |
|---------------------|------------------------|---------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
| Agra                |                 415189 |               25429 |            31603 |           21990 |           188856 |          147311 |
| Aligarh             |                 403497 |               23266 |            32234 |           20685 |           181448 |          145864 |
| Ambedkar Nagar      |                 257519 |               11579 |            14853 |           10849 |           101048 |          119190 |
| Amethi              |                 203778 |               10113 |            14057 |            9356 |            89538 |           80714 |
| Amroha              |                 151076 |               11206 |            14761 |            9984 |            77004 |           38121 |
| Auraiya             |                 184635 |                7449 |            12082 |            5463 |            71456 |           88185 |
| Ayodhya             |                 260036 |               14196 |            18318 |           13520 |           107993 |          106009 |
| Azamgarh            |                 637762 |               29129 |            36320 |           25376 |           262019 |          284918 |
| Baghpat             |                 119545 |                7371 |            10410 |            6071 |            58940 |           36753 |
| Bahraich            |                 541836 |               27709 |            43330 |           20461 |           235814 |          214522 |
| Ballia              |                 343149 |               15370 |            22307 |           11109 |           143982 |          150381 |
| Balrampur           |                 318923 |               14274 |            21675 |           11496 |           132536 |          138942 |
| Banda               |                 195797 |                9083 |            12905 |            8623 |            84721 |           80465 |
| Barabanki           |                 364187 |               23001 |            28871 |           21941 |           168550 |          121824 |
| Bareilly            |                 389593 |               21598 |            31203 |           16197 |           166905 |          153690 |
| Basti               |                 285144 |               11859 |            17573 |           11240 |           111121 |          133351 |
| Bhadohi             |                 172945 |                8124 |            10480 |            6809 |            72746 |           74786 |
| Bijnor              |                 358101 |               23762 |            31414 |           21581 |           172355 |          108989 |
| Budaun              |                 409887 |               21503 |            28037 |           17293 |           173735 |          169319 |
| Bulandshahr         |                 413939 |               22773 |            32712 |           17787 |           180521 |          160146 |
| Chandauli           |                 243294 |               13083 |            16931 |           11438 |            96516 |          105326 |
| Chitrakoot          |                 120715 |                6178 |             8095 |            5580 |            47226 |           53636 |
| Deoria              |                 347821 |               17975 |            23354 |           15487 |           153188 |          137817 |
| Etah                |                 250248 |               16779 |            19121 |           14989 |           109110 |           90249 |
| Etawah              |                 141744 |                8082 |            10384 |            6814 |            63387 |           53077 |
| Farrukhabad         |                 208590 |               11229 |            15389 |            9378 |            89666 |           82928 |
| Fatehpur            |                 336027 |               18345 |            23283 |           16313 |           137964 |          140122 |
| Firozabad           |                 267165 |               15391 |            21258 |           10849 |           118216 |          101451 |
| Gautam Buddha Nagar |                 114068 |                7117 |             9391 |            6186 |            56951 |           34423 |
| Ghaziabad           |                 158680 |               10987 |            14041 |            9713 |            86024 |           37915 |
| Ghazipur            |                 386428 |               19574 |            27342 |           15303 |           165147 |          159062 |
| Gonda               |                 392368 |               22538 |            29885 |           18285 |           176620 |          145040 |
| Gorakhpur           |                 425359 |               19545 |            28631 |           16516 |           178699 |          181968 |
| Hamirpur            |                 133301 |                7065 |             8740 |            6300 |            51960 |           59236 |
| Hapur               |                 102227 |                6126 |             9212 |            4512 |            53584 |           28793 |
| Hardoi              |                 506788 |               29542 |            40323 |           24103 |           225853 |          186967 |
| Hathras             |                 209617 |               12682 |            18165 |           10830 |            95189 |           72751 |
| Jalaun              |                 159759 |                6715 |             9586 |            4939 |            62755 |           75764 |
| Jaunpur             |                 448987 |               26281 |            35529 |           23368 |           230295 |          133514 |
| Jhansi              |                 140048 |                7119 |            10028 |            4863 |            55504 |           62534 |
| Kannauj             |                 214103 |               11456 |            14816 |           10100 |            88691 |           89040 |
| Kanpur Dehat        |                 208932 |               11611 |            14410 |           10793 |            86458 |           85660 |

| Kanpur Nagar     |   227672 |   16537 |   17470 |   15515 |   107698 |   70452 |
|------------------|----------|---------|---------|---------|----------|---------|
| Kasganj          |   272664 |   15065 |   19768 |   12462 |   108778 |  116591 |
| Kaushambi        |   225062 |   13594 |   20472 |    8947 |   105778 |   76271 |
| Kushi Nagar      |   425427 |   17027 |   26751 |   15240 |   174951 |  191458 |
| Lakhimpur Kheri  |   507959 |   29256 |   46142 |   25538 |   226811 |  180212 |
| Lalitpur         |   150946 |    6837 |   10220 |    5680 |    60700 |   67509 |
| Lucknow          |   249159 |   14853 |   18689 |   13885 |   117330 |   84402 |
| Maharajganj      |   323415 |   12742 |   19988 |   10491 |   134597 |  145597 |
| Mahoba           |    89259 |    4255 |    5318 |    3812 |    36189 |   39685 |
| Mainpuri         |   193079 |    9579 |   14128 |    7616 |    86049 |   75707 |
| Mathura          |   304408 |   15613 |   21696 |   13556 |   136808 |  116735 |
| Mau              |   239115 |   12025 |   15777 |   10446 |    99819 |  101048 |
| Meerut           |   230532 |   16020 |   21861 |   14885 |   121198 |   56568 |
| Mirzapur         |   336560 |   18304 |   22721 |   16646 |   134609 |  144280 |
| Moradabad        |   320367 |   19638 |   27027 |   18741 |   153735 |  101226 |
| Muzaffarnagar    |   241149 |   16494 |   22487 |   14685 |   129158 |   58325 |
| Pilibhit         |   245801 |   13305 |   18946 |   11822 |    98057 |  103671 |
| Pratapgarh       |   330207 |   13068 |   19503 |   10905 |   134916 |  151815 |
| Prayagraj        |   619804 |   34788 |   43568 |   27318 |   255734 |  258396 |
| Raebareli        |   300989 |   19746 |   24634 |   16625 |   134499 |  105485 |
| Rampur           |   329744 |   18324 |   26981 |   16308 |   138165 |  129966 |
| Saharanpur       |   362838 |   22644 |   31270 |   20963 |   173571 |  114390 |
| Sambhal          |   271871 |   13095 |   19350 |   10391 |   115425 |  113610 |
| Sant Kabir Nagar |   179885 |    7195 |   11584 |    6070 |    72273 |   82763 |
| Shahjahanpur     |   389765 |   21495 |   34049 |   16882 |   169220 |  148119 |
| Shamli           |   105418 |    6625 |    9465 |    5611 |    53000 |   30717 |
| Shravasti        |   157570 |    6789 |   11598 |    6158 |    65146 |   67879 |
| Siddharth Nagar  |   392525 |   13561 |   22684 |   12210 |   155093 |  188977 |
| Sitapur          |   657916 |   35360 |   51937 |   32410 |   284372 |  253837 |
| Sonbhadra        |   256368 |   13060 |   18948 |   11649 |   111833 |  100878 |
| Sultanpur        |   279303 |   12211 |   18425 |   10949 |   116881 |  120837 |
| Unnao            |   279700 |   17811 |   23217 |   16122 |   137195 |   85355 |
| Varanasi         |   402100 |   21251 |   26737 |   19970 |   178924 |  155218 |
| Total            | 21841384 | 1172381 | 1616470 | 1004998 |  9538803 | 8508732 |

Annexure III Statement of State/UTs wise Mini AWCs:

512

539

129

31

70

| S. No.   | State/UT                         |   No of Mini AWCs* |
|----------|----------------------------------|--------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh                   |               6837 |
| 2.       | Assam                            |               5425 |
| 3.       | Bihar                            |               7115 |
| 4.       | Chhattisgarh                     |               5814 |
| 5.       | Gujarat                          |               1800 |
| 6.       | Haryana                          |                512 |
| 7.       | Himachal Pradesh                 |                539 |
| 8.       | Jharkhand                        |               2551 |
| 9.       | Karnataka                        |               3331 |
| 10.      | Kerala                           |                129 |
| 11.      | Madhya Pradesh                   |              12670 |
| 12.      | Maharashtra                      |              13011 |
| 13.      | Manipur                          |               1552 |
| 14.      | Meghalaya                        |               1266 |
| 15.      | Odisha                           |              10416 |
| 16.      | Punjab                           |               1240 |
| 17.      | Rajasthan                        |               6204 |
| 18.      | Tamil Nadu                       |               4940 |
| 19.      | Telangana                        |               3989 |
| 20.      | Uttar Pradesh                    |              22290 |
| 21.      | Uttarakhand                      |               5120 |
| 22.      | A & N Islands                    |                 31 |
| 23.      | Dadra & N Haveli and Daman & Diu |                 70 |
|          | Total                            |             116852 |

* All these Mini Anganwadis have been approved for upgradation.