State Government Plans to Upgrade Anganwadi Centers, Launches Monitoring App
Agartala 12 September, 2024: The state has nearly 10,000 Anganwadi centers, serving around 4 lakh children with education and nutrition services. The state government is planning to upgrade all Anganwadi centers by providing facilities such as education, nutrition, electricity, drinking water, toilets, vegetable gardening, and sports.
Social Welfare and Social Education Minister Tinku Roy today visited an Anganwadi center at the Bak Rehabilitation Center premises in Ujan Abhoynagar and launched a new monitoring app. During the event, he also announced the upgrade of the Bak Rehabilitation School to the fifth standard, where 50 mute and deaf students will receive free accommodation and education. In the future, this school will be upgraded to the secondary level.
At the event, Minister Tinku Roy said, “This app has been launched to monitor whether all services for mothers and children are being provided correctly at all Anganwadi centers in the state with the help of technology.” He explained that the app will store all the details of Anganwadi centers and allow the department’s supervisors and other staff to monitor the number of centers visited each month and assess the progress made.
He added, “The physical growth of children in Anganwadi centers is measured using equipment for weight and height measurement. To monitor all information about mothers and children at the highest level, mobile phones have been provided to every staff member under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, through which information is recorded in the Poshan Tracker app.”
Agartala Municipal Corporation Council member Hiralal Debnath and Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Social Education, Tapan Kumar Das, also spoke at the event. The minister and other guests distributed nutrition kits to five pregnant women and five malnourished girls, performed a baby’s rice-feeding ceremony, and served a traditional meal to a mother. The event concluded with a vote of thanks by Additional Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Social Education, L. Ranchal, while the residential students of the department presented the opening song.
