Lok Sabha Question No. 2517 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2026-02-13
Subject: AWCs in Urban Areas
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Sunil Kumar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO: 2517

TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.02.2026

## AWCs IN URBAN AREAS

## 2517.  SHRI SUNIL KUMAR:

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

- (a) whether Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) have been set up in the urban areas of any State of the country, if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether AWCs have been set up in wards of any city of Bihar and if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether AWCs are being operated in ward nos. one to fourteen in Bagaha town of West Champaran district, whereas not a single Anganwadi Centre has been approved in ward nos. 15 to 35, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) if so, whether the Government proposes to set up Anganwadi Centres in ward nos. 15 to  35  of  Bagaha  town  besides  Narkatiaganj,  Ramnagar,  Lauriya  and  Machhargava municipal  bodies  in  Valmiki  Nagar  Parliamentary  Constituency,  if  so,  the  details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

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

- (a): State and UT wise details of urban Anganwadi centres as per Poshan Tracker data as on January 2026 are placed at Annexure I.
- (b) to (d): District wise details of urban wards and AWCs for the State of Bihar are at Annexure II. Ward wise details for the AWCs in the Bagaha town of West champaran District of Bihar are at Annexure III.

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## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (A) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2517 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.02.2026 REGARDING 'AWCS IN URBAN AREAS'

State and UT wise details of urban Anganwadi centres as per Poshan Tracker data as on January 2026

| SL. No   | State/UT                         | Urban AWCs   |
|----------|----------------------------------|--------------|
| 1        | Andaman &Nicobar Islands         | 190          |
| 2        | Andhra Pradesh                   | 8,237        |
| 3        | Arunachal Pradesh                | 178          |
| 4        | Assam                            | 3,499        |
| 5        | Bihar                            | 8,479        |
| 6        | Chhattisgarh                     | 5,072        |
| 7        | Dadra &Nagar Haveli - Daman &Diu | 33           |
| 8        | Delhi                            | 10,442       |
| 9        | Goa                              | 267          |
| 10       | Gujarat                          | 10,147       |
| 11       | Haryana                          | 5,183        |
| 12       | Himachal Pradesh                 | 831          |
| 13       | J&K                              | 3,908        |
| 14       | Jharkhand                        | 2,980        |
| 15       | Karnataka                        | 13,959       |
| 16       | Kerala                           | 6,426        |
| 17       | Ladakh                           | 96           |
| 18       | Lakshadweep                      | -            |
| 19       | Madhya Pradesh                   | 16,255       |
| 20       | Maharashtra                      | 19,799       |
| 21       | Manipur                          | 2,169        |
| 22       | Meghalaya                        | 354          |
| 23       | Mizoram                          | 259          |
| 24       | Nagaland                         | 582          |
| 25       | Odisha                           | 5,265        |
| 26       | Puducherry                       | 431          |
| 27       | Punjab                           | 5,160        |
| 28       | Rajasthan                        | 7,591        |
| 29       | Sikkim                           | 125          |
| 30       | Tamil Nadu                       | 13,727       |
| 31       | Telangana                        | 6,926        |
| 32       | Tripura                          | 959          |
| 33       | UT-Chandigarh                    | 450          |
| 34       | Uttar Pradesh                    | 26,384       |
| 35       | Uttarakhand                      | 3,344        |
| 36       | West Bengal                      | 12,014       |
|          | Total                            | 2,01,721     |

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (B) TO (D)  OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2517 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.02.2026 REGARDING 'AWCS IN URBAN AREAS'

District details of urban Anganwadi centres for the state of Bihar as per Poshan Tracker data as on January 2026

|   S No. | District       |   No. of Urban WardsTotal |   number of AWCs |
|---------|----------------|---------------------------|------------------|
|       1 | Araria         |                        72 |              144 |
|       2 | Arwal          |                        24 |               42 |
|       3 | Aurangabad     |                        82 |              185 |
|       4 | Banka          |                        25 |               61 |
|       5 | Begusarai      |                        98 |              341 |
|       6 | BHAGALPUR      |                        63 |              163 |
|       7 | Bhojpur        |                       104 |              199 |
|       8 | Buxar          |                        58 |              126 |
|       9 | Darbhanga      |                        76 |              272 |
|      10 | East Champaran |                       119 |              289 |
|      11 | Gaya           |                       102 |              412 |
|      12 | Gopalganj      |                        74 |              151 |
|      13 | Jamui          |                        54 |              106 |
|      14 | JEHANABAD      |                        65 |              171 |
|      15 | Kaimur         |                         2 |                3 |
|      16 | Katihar        |                        70 |              277 |
|      17 | Khagaria       |                        18 |               49 |
|      18 | Kishanganj     |                        62 |              129 |
|      19 | Lkhisarai      |                        57 |              121 |
|      20 | Madhepura      |                        40 |              105 |

|   21. | Madhubani       |   50 | 105   |
|-------|-----------------|------|-------|
|    22 | Munger          |   83 | 245   |
|    23 | Muzaffarpur     |   85 | 393   |
|    24 | Nalanda         |  148 | 400   |
|    25 | Nawada          |   77 | 189   |
|    26 | Patna           |  297 | 1,315 |
|    27 | Purnia          |   78 | 254   |
|    28 | Rohtas          |  140 | 331   |
|    29 | Saharsa         |   56 | 182   |
|    30 | SAMASTIPUR      |   60 | 259   |
|    31 | Saran           |  139 | 444   |
|    32 | Sekhpura        |   57 | 116   |
|    33 | Sheohar         |   18 | 38    |
|    34 | Sitamarhi       |   64 | 125   |
|    35 | Siwan           |   55 | 186   |
|    36 | Supaul          |   47 | 79    |
|    37 | Vaishali        |  111 | 306   |
|    38 | West Chamaparan |   79 | 166   |

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (B) TO (D) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2517 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13.02.2026 REGARDING 'AWCS IN URBAN AREAS'

Ward wise details for the AWCs in the Bagaha town of West champaran District of Bihar as per Poshan Tracker data as on January 2026

|   S. No | Ward Name               |   No. of AWCs |
|---------|-------------------------|---------------|
|       1 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.1   |             2 |
|       2 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.10  |             2 |
|       3 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.11  |             2 |
|       4 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.12  |             2 |
|       5 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.13  |             2 |
|       6 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.14  |             2 |
|       7 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.2   |             2 |
|       8 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.3   |             2 |
|       9 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.4   |             2 |
|      10 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.5   |             1 |
|      11 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.6   |             2 |
|      12 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.7   |             2 |
|      13 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.8   |             2 |
|      14 | BAGAHA (M) -WARD NO.9   |             2 |
|      15 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.11 |             3 |
|      16 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.12 |             4 |
|      17 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.13 |             3 |
|      18 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.14 |             3 |
|      19 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.15 |             3 |

|   20. | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.16       |   3 |
|-------|-------------------------------|-----|
|    21 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.17       |   1 |
|    22 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.18       |   2 |
|    23 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.19       |   2 |
|    24 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.2        |   2 |
|    25 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.20       |   2 |
|    26 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.21       |   2 |
|    27 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.22       |   2 |
|    28 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.23       |   3 |
|    29 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.24       |   2 |
|    30 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.25       |   4 |
|    31 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.26       |   2 |
|    32 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.3        |   2 |
|    33 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.4        |   3 |
|    34 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.5        |   3 |
|    35 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.6        |   1 |
|    36 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.7        |   3 |
|    37 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.8        |   2 |
|    38 | BETTIAH (M) -WARD NO.9        |   2 |
|    39 | CHANPATIA (NP) - WARDNO.5     |   1 |
|    40 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.1  |   4 |
|    41 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.10 |   1 |
|    42 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.12 |   3 |
|    43 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.13 |   1 |

|   44. | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.14   |   4 |
|-------|---------------------------------|-----|
|    45 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.15   |   2 |
|    46 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.16   |   2 |
|    47 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.19   |   1 |
|    48 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.2    |   1 |
|    49 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.20   |   2 |
|    50 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.21   |   2 |
|    51 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.22   |   1 |
|    52 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.23   |   2 |
|    53 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.24   |   1 |
|    54 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.3    |   1 |
|    55 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.4    |   1 |
|    56 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.5    |   2 |
|    57 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.7    |   2 |
|    58 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.8    |   1 |
|    59 | NARKATIAGANJ (NP) - WARDNO.9    |   2 |
|    60 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.1        |   2 |
|    61 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.11       |   2 |
|    62 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.12       |   2 |
|    63 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.13       |   1 |
|    64 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.15       |   2 |
|    65 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.16       |   1 |
|    66 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.17       |   3 |
|    67 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.18       |   2 |

|   68. | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.19   |   1 |
|-------|-----------------------------|-----|
|    69 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.2    |   1 |
|    70 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.20   |   2 |
|    71 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.21   |   2 |
|    72 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.22   |   1 |
|    73 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.23   |   2 |
|    74 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.4    |   2 |
|    75 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.7    |   2 |
|    76 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.8    |   2 |
|    77 | RAMNAGAR (NP) - WARDNO.9    |   1 |
|    78 | RAMNAGAR (NP)- WARDNO.5     |   1 |
|    79 | RAMNAGAR (NP)- WARDNO.6     |   1 |

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