Informing this after chairing a review meeting here on Monday, Principal Secretary in-charge Health & Family Welfare, Sampath Kumar, said, “In the next two years, we will upgrade 2000 (anganwadi centres) as ECD centres.”
Informing this, social welfare Minister Paul Lyngdoh on Friday said that work will start post monsoon and the funding pattern will be 90/10 between the centre and the State.
Replying to a query raised by AITC MLA from Ampati Miani D Shira in the Assembly, Minister in-charge Social Welfare Paul Lyngdoh said, "We have already moved the Ministry of Women and Child Development for total coverage of uncovered villages."
Speaking to media persons, Lyngdoh said that over 60,000 children in the various anganwadi centres have been covered under the mission. The aim of the mission is to develop a curriculum so that the anganwadi centres also become centres of learning and not just for nutrition alone.
