<span style="color: #222222;">Jammu and Kashmir Government rolled out an ambitious plan to transform the Anganwadi Centres into state-of-the-art Model Community Facilities for children and mothers in the State.<br />''<br />''As a part of this programme in the first phase, 50 existing Anganwadi Centres in each district would be transformed through convergence with MGNREGA into Model Anganwadi Centres.<br />''<br />''They will be equipped with upgraded infrastructure and improved amenities like toilets, drinking water and hygiene. It will be then replicated at other Anganwadi Centres in the State to change the face of Government's children and women-oriented program for efficient delivery of Integrated Child Development Scheme, ICDS.<br />''<br />''Under ICDS, supplementary nutrition is provided to children in the age group of 0-6 years and to pregnant/ lactating mothers with main objective to fight the problem of malnutrition.<br />''<br />''At present, 141 projects are running under ICDS in J&K covering 29,599 Anganwadi Centres. Upto June 2019, nearly 7,80,000 beneficiaries have been covered under Supplementary Nutrition Program in the State.</span><br />