CHANDIGARH: Over 5,600 anganwadi centres (AWC) that provide basic healthcare in rural areas do not have functional toilets and drinking water facilities in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
Anganwadi centres render six services — supplementary nutrition, pre-school non-formal education, nutrition and health education, immunization, health check-up, and referral services to targeted beneficiaries who include children below six years of age, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
As per data submitted by the Union ministry of women and child development, over 10% of functional AWCs in Haryana and 9.28% in Punjab are working without a toilet.
