A study was conducted during the year 2011–12 in four purposively selected districts namely Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag and Haveri of Karnataka state. Ex post facto research design was employed on 60 Anganawadi supervisors of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Out of these 30 were graduates of college of Rural Home Science, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka and other 30 were graduates of other non-agricultural universities. In addition 120 Anganawadi workers and 120 rural women of the study area were selected to know the contribution of Anganawadi supervisors to the beneficiaries. Cent per cent of the Anganawadi workers opined that supervisors visited Anganawadis unexpectedly, checked all the registers and provided all the supplementary feeding material. All the rural women respondents opined that supervisors gave necessary information, conducted trainings on entrepreneurship development programme and visited malnourished and graded children houses.
Anganwadi workers, rural women, supervisors, ICDS, home science
