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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.

 

Annexure I

State/UT wise status report of Smartphone procurement

Sr. NO.	State/UT	Smartphones procured
1	ANDAMAN& NICOBAR ISLANDS	795
2	ANDHRA PRADESH	61005
3	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	149
4	ASSAM	67410
5	BIHAR	121174
6	CHANDIGARH	496
7	CHHATTISGARH	29942
8	DADRA & NAGAR HAVELI and DAMAN & DIU	444
9	DELHI	11500
10	GOA	1413
11	GUJARAT	58261
12	HARYANA	0
13	HIMACHAL PRADESH	20725
14	JAMMU & KASHMIR	31174
15	JHARKHAND	12399
16	KARNATAKA	72049
17	KERALA	36435
18	LADAKH	1300
19	LAKSHADWEEP	80
20	MADHYA PRADESH	27817
21	MAHARASHTRA	120685
22	MANIPUR	2600
23	MEGHALAYA	3640
24	MIZORAM	2479
25	NAGALAND	4409
26	ODISHA	81165
27	PUDUCHERRY	939
28	PUNJAB	0
29	RAJASTHAN	22887
30	SIKKIM	1442
31	TAMIL NADU	59488
32	TELANGANA	38984
33	TRIPURA	10735
34	UTTAR PRADESH	177916
35	UTTARAKHAND	21809
36	WEST BENGAL	0
TOTAL		1103746

 

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.

 

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