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}} [[File:Anganwadi Worker AWW Distributing Dresses to childrens.jpg|alt=Anganwadi worker distributing dresses to children|thumb|Anganwadi worker distributing dresses to children]]
[[File:Anganwadi Kendra Kulei.jpg|thumb|Anganwadi Kendra Kulei]]
[[File:Anganwadi Centre - Budhibili - Dandadhar Road - Dhenkanal 2018-01-25 9601.JPG|thumb|Anganwadi Centre, Odisha, 2018]]
'''Anganwadi''' is a type of rural child care centre in [[India]]. They were started by the Indian government in 1975 as part of the [[Integrated Child Development Services]] program to combat child hunger and [[malnutrition]]. ''Anganwadi'' means "courtyard shelter" in Hindi.

[[File:Nirappam kunnu Anganwadi Centre, Cheruvannur Grama Panchayat, Kozhikode.jpg|thumb|Nirappam kunnu Anganwadi Centre, Cheruvannur Grama Panchayat, Kozhikode district, Kerala]]
[[File:Children and worker at Nirappam kunnu Anganwadi Centre, Cheruvannur Grama Panchayat, Kozhikode.jpg|thumb|Children and worker at Nirappam kunnu Anganwadi Centre]]
[[File:Children at Nirappam kunnu Anganwadi Centre, Cheruvannur Grama Panchayat, Kozhikode.jpg|thumb|Children at Nirappam kunnu Anganwadi Centre]]

[[File:Karunaram Anganwadi.jpg|thumb|Karunaram Anganwadi Centre, Nanminda Grama Panchayat, Kozhikode district, Kerala]]
[[File:Anganwadi Day starts with prayer.jpg|thumb|Karunaram Anganwadi - A day starts with prayer]]
[[File:Birthday celebtration at Karunaram Anganwadi.jpg|thumb|Birthday celebtration at Karunaram Anganwadi]]
[[File:Mid day meals Karunaram Anganwadi.jpg|thumb|Mid day meals on a special day, at Karunaram Anganwadi]]

A typical Anganwadi center provides basic health care in a village. It is a part of the Indian public health care system. Basic health care activities include [[contraceptive]] counseling and supply, [[nutrition]] education and supplementation, as well as pre-school activities.<ref>[http://populationcommission.nic.in/npp_app1.htm National Population Policy 2000] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207010417/http://populationcommission.nic.in/npp_app1.htm |date=7 February 2012 }}, National Commission on Population website. Accessed 13 February 2008</ref> The centres may be used as depots for [[oral rehydration salts]], basic medicines and contraceptives.
{{As of|2013|01|31}}, as many as 13.3 [[lakh]] (a lakh is 100,000) Anganwadi and mini-Anganwadi centres (AWCs/mini-AWCs) are operational out of 13.7 lakh sanctioned AWCs/mini-AWCs. These centres provide supplementary nutrition, non-formal pre-school education, nutrition, and health education, immunization, health check-up and referral services of which the last three are provided in convergence with public health systems.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=92848 | title=Anganwadi Centres}}</ref>

== Worker responsibilities ==

The [[Ministry of Women and Child Development|Ministry of Women Development and Child Welfare]] has laid down guidelines for the responsibilities of Anganwadi workers. These guidelines include showing community support and active participation in executing this program, conducting regular quick surveys of all families, organizing pre-school activities, providing health and nutrition education to families, especially pregnant women, motivating families to adopt family planning, educating parents about child growth and development, assisting in the implementation and execution of Kishori Shakti Yojana, educating teenage girls and parents by organizing social awareness programs, and identifying disabilities in children.

== Supervision ==

A Mukhya Sevika supervises between 40 and 65 Anganwadi workers, providing them with on-the-job training. Mukhya Sevikas' other duties include keeping track of people of lower economic status benefiting from the program, in particular the malnourished; guiding the Anganwadi workers in assessing children's age and weight and plotting their weight; demonstrating effective methods of providing health and nutrition education to mothers; and maintaining statistics on Anganwadis and their workers to determine what can be improved. The Mukhya Sevikas report to the Child Development Projects.

== Benefits ==
Despite decades of impressive growth, India has an acute shortage of doctors.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Amy Kazmin |title=Doctors are scapegoats for India’s failing health system |url=https://www.ft.com/content/8053cef2-33d5-11e7-bce4-9023f8c0fd2e |access-date=7 November 2018 |newspaper=Financial Times}}</ref> The doctor population ratio in 2013 was 1:1800; the recommended level is 1:1000.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Deo |first1=Madhav |title=Doctor population ratio for India - the reality |journal=Indian Journal of Medical Research |volume=137 |issue=4 |pages=632–5 |pmid=23703329 |pmc=3724242 |year=2013 }}</ref> Through the Anganwadi system, the country is trying to meet its goal of providing affordable and accessible healthcare to local populations.

Anganwadi workers have the advantage over the physicians living in the same rural area, which gives them insight into the state of health in the locality and assists in identifying the cause of problems and in countering them. They also have better social skills and can therefore more easily interact with the local people.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} As locals, they know and are comfortable with the local language and ways, are acquainted with the people, and are trusted.<ref name="healthopine2001">{{cite web|url=http://healthopine.com/healthcare-infrastructure/the-anganwadi-workers-of-india-connecting-for-health-at-the-grassroots|title=The Anganwadi Workers of India|date=3 March 2011|work=Health Opine|access-date=31 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331041500/http://healthopine.com/healthcare-infrastructure/the-anganwadi-workers-of-india-connecting-for-health-at-the-grassroots|archive-date=31 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Challenges and solutions==

Public policy discussions have taken place over whether to make Anganwadis universally available to all eligible children and mothers who want their children there. This would require significant increases in budgetary allocation and a rise in the number of Anganwadis to over 16  lakh.

The officers and their helpers who staff Anganwadis are typically women from poor families. The workers do not have permanent jobs with comprehensive retirement benefits like other government staff. Worker protests (by the All India Anganwadi Workers Federation) and public debates on this topic are ongoing. There are periodic reports of corruption and crimes against women in some Anganwadi centers.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/2-held-6-booked-for-graft-in-rs-18-crore-anganwadi-tender/articleshow/64115895.cms |title=2 held, 6 booked for graft in Rs 18 crore anganwadi tender |newspaper=The Times of India|access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://odishasuntimes.com/anganwadi-worker-kidnapped-gangraped-in-odisha-3-detained/|title=Anganwadi worker kidnapped, gang-raped in Odisha; 3 detained |newspaper=Odisha Sun Times |access-date=2019-02-18}}</ref> There are legal and societal issues when Anganwadi-serviced children fall sick or die.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Tragedy-strikes-anganwadi-again/articleshow/16304286.cms |title=Tragedy strikes anganwadi again |newspaper=The Times of India |date=2012-09-08 |access-date=2019-03-30 }}</ref>

In announcing the 2008-2009 budget, then Indian Finance Minister [[P. Chidambaram]] stated that salaries would be increased for Anganwadi workers to ₹15000 per month and for helpers to ₹6500 per month.{{cn|date=March 2019}} In his budget speech for the financial year 2011-2012, his successor [[Pranab Mukherjee]] announced that the salary of Anganwadi workers would be increased to ₹3000 per month and for helpers to ₹1500 per month — about one tenth of the salary of a government office assistant.{{cn|date=March 2019}}

In March 2008 there was debate about whether packaged foods (such as biscuits) should become part of the food served. Detractors, including Nobel Prize winner [[Amartya Sen]], argued against it, saying thajt it will become the only food consumed by the children. Options for increasing partnerships with the private sector are continuing.

In a major initiative, the work of Anganwadis is to be digitized, starting with the 27 most-backward districts in Uttar Pradesh: Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Anganwadis will be provided with [[tablet computer]]s to record data that will be integrated with the health ministry, which is involved in carrying out immunization, health check-ups, and nutrition education under [[Integrated Child Development Services (India)|Integrated Child Development Services]].

== Integration with other official schemes ==

The Integrated Child Development Services scheme did not have provision for the construction of AWC buildings as this was envisaged to be provided by the community except for the North Eastern States. For them, financial support was provided for construction of AWC buildings since 2001-02 at a unit cost of ₹175,000.

As part of the strengthening and restructuring the ICDS scheme, the government approved a provision of construction of 200,000 Anganwadi centre buildings at a cost of ₹450,000 per unit during XII Plan period in a phased manner with a cost-sharing ratio of 75:25 between centre and states (other than the NER, where it will be at 90:10).

Further, construction of AWC has been notified as a permissible activity under the [[Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act]] (MNREGA). The construction of AWC buildings can be taken up in convergence with MNREGA.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anganwadi Centres|url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=92848|publisher=Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India|access-date=30 March 2016}}</ref>

==International efforts==

[[UNICEF]] and the [[UN Millennium Development Goals]] of reducing infant mortality and improving maternal care are the impetus for increasing focus on the Anganwadis.{{fact|date=September 2019}} Workers and helpers are expected to be trained per [[WHO]] standards.

==See also==
* [[Auxiliary nurse midwife]]
* [[Accredited Social Health Activist]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://icds-wcd.nic.in/ Official website]
* [https://wcd.nic.in/schemes/anganwadi-services-scheme Anganwadi services scheme]
* [http://wcd.kerala.gov.in/article.php?itid=Mzg3 ICDS]
* [http://sjd.kerala.gov.in/anganwadis.php Anganwadis of Kerala]

* Anganwadi Information - https://web.archive.org/web/20120331041500/http://healthopine.com/healthcare-infrastructure/the-anganwadi-workers-of-india-connecting-for-health-at-the-grassroots
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130729114310/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/keyword/anganwadi ]

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