Mysuru: Industries and commerce principal secretary S Selvakumar, who is Mysuru district nodal secretary, on Monday directed the officials of the women and children welfare department to submit a detailed report on the poor enrolment of children below six years of age at anganwadi centres in the district.Chairing a review meeting of various departments at zilla panchayat hall, the officer asked the ZP to submit the report to find out the causes for poor enrolment at anganwadis in the district. He asked the officials to explain why there is a decline in admissions to anganwadi centres this year. As a large number of students enrolled in anganwadi also remain absent from the anganwadi centres most of the days, the officer also asked to track the reasons for children’s long absence from anganwadi centres.Earlier, district women and children welfare officer B Basavaraj provided details about Mysuru district having 2,933 anganwadi centres. There are 157,138 anganwadi beneficiaries. Among them, 47,796 beneficiaries were children below 3 years, 75,536 are children below six years, including 14,880 pregnant women, and 13,157 are lactating mothers in the district.83% progress in providing drinking water tap connections ZP rural drinking water supply and sanitation department executive engineer Ranjinth Kumar said that the department has achieved nearly 83% progress, providing drinking water tap connections to 4.45 lakh households out of 4.75 lakh targeted in Jal Jeevan Mission works. The department will carry out the remaining work very soon, he said.Joint director of agriculture Ravi said that the district received 443 millimetres of rain from Jan to mid-July. The scarcity of rain in July affected ragi sowing in the district, he said.Deputy director of public instruction ST Javaregowda explained about 24 programmes initiated by the department for the improvement of SSLC results next year in the district.District mid-day meals officer Krishna said that 2.6 lakh children were benefiting from mid-day meals in the district. As egg prices are increasing in the market, all school heads have requested the govt to revise the prices for eggs provided by the govt. A proposal in this regard was submitted to its higher-ups. The meeting also discussed the houses constructed under various schemes of the govt.DC Lakshmikanth Reddy, ZP CEO S Ukesh Kumar, deputy secretaries M Krishnaraju and Savitha, and chief planning officer Prabhuswamy were present.
