In the month of January 2019, a community monitoring process was conducted at the Biranarayan Pur village of Kotapeta panchayat of Rayagada block. During the process the beneficiaries of Birnarayan  Pur AWC revealed that, the pre-school education was practically inattentive along with the nutritional aspect of children in absence of a fully functional Anganwadi center.

Biranarayan Pur is a village coming under Rayagada block of Rayagada district. There are a total of 153 beneficiaries in the AWC. Of them, 7 are pregnant women, 10 are lactating mothers, 20 are adolescent girls, 38 children are between the age of 6 months to 3 years and 38 children are in the age group of 3 years to 6 years.

A community monitoring process was done by CYSD at Rayagada district on basic health  services along with the nutritional aspects of pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls and pre-school children reveals that the most basic ground level institution i.e. AWC of Biranarayanpur village is not able to function well in absence of its own functional building. The Anganwadi Worker (AWW) is neither able to store the food grains properly nor able to do the pre-school activity effectively. As per the AWW she not able to keep the learning materials and books safely as the building is deteriorating day by day. In rainy season the situation worsens. During the process, the beneficiaries, i.e. pregnant women, lactating mothers and adolescent girls were interacted and they too revealed the same situation.

During a plan of action to smoothen the service of Anganwadi centre, the Anganwadi worker explained about the difficulty she is going through in providing the services and issue was considered as a priority subject. However, in the same interface it was decided by the service users that the mothers and adolescent girls will be taking the issue forward and the Ward Member was very spontaneous to help them out in this regard. In the course of action plan, it was commonly agreed that an application is to be submitted to BDO through CDPO for construction of a new Aaganwadi centre with proper and basic facilities. The Adolescent Girls Club took the responsibility to write the application and give it to BDO through ASHA and ANM. As a part of the action plan the application was written by Sanjukta Saraka, a member of the Adolescent Girls Club, and was given to BDO.

At present, the construction for a new Aaganwadi centre has started at Birnarayanpur Anganwadi Centre.