Smartphone, tablets to Anganwadi Workers under POSHAN Abhiyaan

Under POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi workers (AWWs) have been technologically empowered with the provision of smartphones for efficient service delivery and monitoring. A total of 11.03 lakh Smartphones have been procured by States/UTs.

The mobile application of POSHAN Abhiyaan digitizes physical registers used by Anganwadi workers. This improves the quality of their work while simultaneously allowing them real-time monitoring. The detail of the Smartphones procured by States/UTs including the state of Rajasthan under POSHAN Abhiyaan is at Annexure I.

The Anganwadi Workers periodically measure height and weight of children upto the age of 6 years and upload in POSHAN Tracker. To promote regular growth monitoring of children up to 6 years Anganwadi Workers are being incentivised.

At present, no Committee has been constituted for the review of different kinds of benefits including honorarium provided to the staff working in Anganwadi Kendras.

State/UT wise status report of Smartphone procurement

This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

CT Bureau