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lxxvWith regard to segments of pre – school education covered during the training, they mostlyreported “physical & motor development” (84%), “language” (70%), “early childhood care &development in integrated child development services” (63%) and “importance of pre-schooleducation” (50%).More than 85 percent of them attended any refresher course in intervention and intermediateAWCs . The proportion of such AWWs in Raigarh was 52 percent. They mainly attendedrefresher course in “pre – school education”, “community growth chart” and “growthmonitoring”. For more details, Table 8.3A in Annexure – 2 may be seen.87 8.2 Infrastructure and equipment of AWCsLocation of AWC: Majority of the AWCs (more than 85%) were functioning in Governmentbuilding or rented building. About one – tenth of the AWCs were functioning in the buildingprovided by panchayat (7%) or shared with school (3%) (Table 8.1).Population covered: Majority of AWWs (64% in intervention, 68% in intermediate and87% in control AWCs) covered a population of less than 900. About One – fifth of AWWs inintervention districts and one – tenth in control district covered a population of 900 – 1100;while one – tenth intervention and 3% in control district covered more than 1100 (Table 8.1).Access to a ground for children to play: Almost three – fifths of AWCs (62% inintervention, 56% in intermediate and 66% in control AWCs) had an access to any ground forchildren to play (Table 8.1).Table 8.1: Location of AWCs, population covered and access to play ground forchildren to play(Percentage)ParticularsIntervention districts / Category Controlof AWCsIntervention Intermediate Raigarh(n=) 61 59 61LocationGovt. Building 73.8 76.3 55.7Rented building 16.4 17.0 29.5Building provided by Panchayat 6.6 3.4 11.5Bldg shared with school 3.3 3.4 3.3Population covered< 900 63.9 67.8 86.9900-1100 23 20.3 9.81101-1500 13.1 10.2 3.3More than 1500 0 1.7 0Easy access to a groundYes 62.3 55.9 65.6No 37.7 44.1 34.4Growth monitoring items: All AWCs (except 20) had weighing scale and in four – fifths ofthem, weighing scale was found to be in good condition. Height measuring scale andmeasuring tape were available in only 7 and 5 AWCs respectively. Height measuring scalewas in good condition in all these 7 AWCs, while measuring tape was found to be good in 4AWCs . Stock of growth monitoring charts for a year (old or new) was only available in all the61 intervention AWCs (Table 8.2).Baseline Study Of Early Childhood Care And Development Project In ChattisgarhApril,2012