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HC directs Nagaland govt to reopen anganwadisThe Kohima Bench of the Gauhati High Court directed the state government and the departments of Social Welfare, and Food & Civil Supplies t...
Mission Poshan 2.0 launched in Budget to improve nutritional outcomesOut of Rs 24,435 crore allocated to the Women Child Development (WCD) Ministry, an amount of Rs 20,105 crore has been assigned to Saksham A...
SC asks states, UTs to decide by Jan 31 on re-opening of Anganwadi centres outside containment zoneA bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan directed that all states and UTs shall issue "necessary orders regarding monitoring and supervision...
Government plans to upgrade 2.5 lakh anganwadi centres in next 5 years: Women and Child Development Ministry officialCurrently, a total of 13.77 lakh anganwadi centres are operational in the country with a strength of 12.8 lakh workers and 11.6 lakh helper...
Procurement of growth-monitoring devices, smartphones for anganwadis 'not up to mark': NITI AayogAccording to the transcript of the meeting of the National Council of Nutritional Challenges, NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said fiv...
Government plans survey to check health of its nutrition missionThe proposed survey’s first report— covering a sample of 100,000 ‘anganwadis’—is expected to come in by March 2019.
8 lakh fake beneficiaries identified in Maharashtra anganwadis: WCDA senior WCD official said a total of 61 lakh beneficiaries registered in these anganwadis and of them 8 lakh names were fake.
14 lakh 'fake children' registered with anganwadis in Uttar Pradesh: WCD MinistryIn a meeting of the National Nutrition Council on Thursday, the ministry was informed that about 14.57 lakh fake beneficiaries were registe...
Prime Minister announces hike in incentives of Asha, Anganwadi workersHe said the revised incentive will come into effect from October and it will reflect in their salaries from November onwards, which would b...
Over 2 lakh smartphones, tablets procured by 8 states for anganwadis: Official dataThe information recorded by the anganwadis would be shared with the supervisor, who will then feed it into the database server.
Government wants to team up with corporates, NGOs for Nutrition Mission PlanOfficials at the Women and Child Ministry said that the government is specifically looking at collaborations with corporates and NGOs in th...
Smartphones help identify 12,000 severely malnourished kids at anganwadisThe government is now planning to cover 1,50,000 anganwadis across 77 districts in eight states by the end of this year.
Anganwadi centres to use IT-enabled services for improved functioningAnganwadi Workers (AWWs) and Sector Supervisors will be provided with smartphones and tablet devices to update data on child nutrition on a...
Vedanta readies Rs 400-crore funding facelift for anganwadisThe foundation will fund the modernisation drive with over Rs 400 crore, for which it has partnered with the Ministry of WCD, it said.
Anganwadis to go hi-tech, record nutrition data on tablet PCsAnganwadi centres across the country will soon go hi-tech with the government planning to equip them with tablet PC devices.
Gates Foundation to design software for government's nutrition missionMelinda, the co-chair of the foundation, met Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today in this regard.
- Malnutrition continues to be among children in Kerala: CAG
A total of 56 to 66 per cent of children in Kerala continue to be out of the ambit of 'Supplementary Nutrition Programme' implemented under...