Sanitation is the primary condition of health and well being of an individual next to nutrition. In this regard WHO states that The provision of sanitation is a key development intervention – without it, ill-health dominates a life without dignity. Sanitation was provided in anganawadies with a view to improving the quality and healthy life of the children by controlling sanitation related diseases. Hence the sanitation facility is an important component, which highly influenced on the health status of the children. Thus the sanitation is one of the important requirements of the anganawadi centers , which acts as day care centers for under five year old children. Most of the anganwadis are mainly run by Government where we find lot of Problem related to sanitation and toilet facilities. Maximum number of anganwadi centers r run in rented buildings, where there are no toilets even if they have toilets those are not in a good condition to use. Therefore children generally go for open air sanitation (open defecation).Nevertheless, the coverage of anganawadies with sanitation facility was significantly inadequate.Against this background the present study has made an attempt to find out the sanitation facilities in anganawadi centers and also to examine the sanitation facilities by selected social factors in Dharwad district. This study is mainly based on primary data collected from the selected sample children in Dharwad district. Simple statistical tool percentage has been employed for the analysis. The study reveals that the aggregate levels, of the total sample, a higher proportion of sample anganawadi children have not accessed toilet facility. Hence, a significant number of sample anganawadi children invariably go far open defection in the study areas. Across regions, the proportion of sample anganawadi children accessed toilet was found to be higher in urban areas as compared to that of in rural areas .Whereas the proportion of sample anganawadi children who go for open defection was found to be higher in rural areas as compared to that of in urban areas .The study has suggested that the government has to be provide good sanitation and toilet facilities to anganawadi centers, households.Further child health care education has to be provide to the agricultural labourer and farmer parents of the children.
