Andhra Pradesh Lokayukta Justice P. Lakshmana Reddy has proposed immediate constitution of a village-level committee for the proper checking and monitoring of quality of food being served to children and pregnant women at anganwadi centres.
Following a complaint from B. Yerraiah, a resident of Kanimeraka village in Bondapalli mandal of Vizianagaram district, the Institution had asked for an inquiry into the allegations of supply of inferior quality of eggs to children and pregnant women. The Project Director, District Women and Child Development Agency, Vizianagaram, and Vizianagaram District Collector had, however, found no truth in those allegations as they could not be corroborated.
The Lokayukta, however, said that despite these reports from the two officers, it cannot be concluded that nothing wrong happened, and the committees, consisting of two members from the families of children (aged between 0-3 and 3-6) and two members from families with pregnant women, lactating mothers under the chairmanship of Gram Sarpanch shall be formed to supervise the supply of eggs at village level.
