Introduction: Immunization plays a key role in reducing the morbidity
as well as mortality against the common preventable diseases
of children. Even though the aim of the universal immunization
programme is to provide 100 % coverage still there are many infants
and children who are not protected against the killer diseases.
As part of intersectoral co- ordination anganwadi centers under
ICDS play an important role in immunization of children and
pregnant women. The objective of the present study was to assess
the immunization status of children 1-6years age group attending
anganwadi centers (AWC).
Methodology: It was a field based cross-sectional study. Sample
size was calculated to be 384 and multistage sampling method was
used to select the study population.
Results: About 79% were from urban areas and 21% belonged to
urban slums. Among them 52% were males. Vaccines coverage
was highest for OPV zero dose i.e. 89% and 93% in ICDS project I
and II respectively. The lowest coverage was found for Hepatitis B
3rd dose i.e. 63% as an average. Complete immunization of beneficiaries
in areas where AWCs were functioning for more than
10years was about 73%.