Anganwadi worker

About Poshan Tracker App: • This application provides a 360-degree view of the activities of the Anganwadi Centre (child care centers), service deliveries of Anganwadi Workers and complete beneficiary management for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under six. • It also digitizes and automates physical registers used by workers to help improve the quality of their work. • The Anganwadi workers are being provided smartphones procured through Government e-Market (GeM) for efficient service delivery. • A nodal person has also been appointed for providing technical support and resolving any issue with downloading the new Poshan Tracker application and its functioning in each state. • The sources that each migrant worker who had registered in their original state could go to the nearest Anganwadi in their current place of residence and avail of the schemes and services offered. • It was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD). What is Poshan Abhiyaan? • It was launched by the Prime Minister of India on 8th March 2018 and has been instrumental in ensuring people’s participation and bringing the discourse on nutrition to the forefront. • It was launched to improve nutritional outcomes holistically. • The focus of Abhiyaan is to emphasize the nutritional status of adolescent girls, pregnant women, lactating mothers and children from 0-6 years of age. • The programme, through the use of technology, convergence and community involvement with a ta...

Bhopal, June 11 (PTI) Months ahead of Assembly polls, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday said the monthly honorarium of anganwadi workers will be raised by Rs 3,000 to Rs 13,000. Addressing a convention here, Chouhan said anganwadi workers will also benefit from Rs 1,000 being transferred to the accounts of 1.25 crore women under the newly-launched Ladli Behna scheme. The honorarium will be increased to Rs 13,000 from Rs 10,000 and the same will be hiked by Rs 1,000 every year as an incentive, he said. Apart from this, the honorarium for mini anganwadi workers has also been increased to Rs 6,500 per month, he said. Anganwadi workers and sahayikas (assistants) will be provided Rs 1.25 lakh on retirement, and they will be eligible for health and accident insurance of Rs 5 lakh, the chief minister said. At least 50 per cent of posts will be reserved for sahayikas when they get promoted to anganwadi workers, Chouhan said, adding that anganwadi workers will get facilities like government employees. The ruling BJP is facing a challenge from Congress in the polls, due later this year. In the 2018 elections, Congress scored a narrow victory over BJP and cobbled up an alliance with SP, BSP, and Independents to form a coalition government. The government led by Kamal Nath fell in March 2020 due to a rebellion by MLAs, paving the way for BJP to return to power.

Background Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) are a group of 1.4 million community health workers that operate throughout rural India as a part of the Integrated Child Development Services program. AWWs are responsible for disseminating key health information regarding nutrition, family planning, and immunizations to the women and children in their catchment area, while maintaining detailed registers that track key beneficiary data, updates on health status, and supply inventory beneficiaries. There is a need to understand how AWWs spend their time on all of these activities given all of their responsibilities, and the factors that are associated with their time use. Methods This cross-sectional study conducted in Madhya Pradesh, collected time use data from AWWs using a standard approach in which we asked participants how much time they spent on various activities. Additionally, we estimated a logistic regression model to elucidate what AWW characteristics are associated with time use. Results We found that AWWs spend substantial amounts of time on administrative tasks, such as filling out their paper registers. Additionally, we explored the associations between various AWW characteristics and their likelihood of spending the expected amount of time on preschool work, filling out their registers, feeding children, and conducting home visits. We found a positive significant association between AWW education and their likelihood of filling out their registers. Conclusions AWWs spend ...

Share on WhatsApp Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Telegram Share on Reddit Share on Email During my professional engagement with rural India, I found that one of the most useful resources at the grassroots level was an Anganwadi worker. I would always begin my village exploration with a visit to an Anganwadi and would be rewarded with a finer introduction to the local community. I have always regarded Anganwadi workers as the most efficient last-mile connects. Their delivery on the ground is both devoted and empathetic. In normal times, India’s army of Anganwadi workers is on the frontline of the country’s war against undernutrition. Today, it has joined another battle — the battle against COVID-19. This vast cohort is now at the forefront of community surveillance, detection and prevention mechanisms, going door to door, recording people’s travel history, noting symptoms, advising people on hygiene protocols and social distancing to protect themselves against the virus. These workers form an important part of the disease surveillance and mitigation mechanism. Since they know their people well and have intimate on-the-ground experience, this legion of Anganwadi workers is extensively used by district administrations in times of crisis. Dealing with emergencies is, therefore, not alien to their cadre. Anganwadi workers are a resilient workforce and can adapt very quickly to difficult circumstances. In Wanoja village in Chandrapur district of central India, too, ...