{"id":116265,"date":"2021-07-03T18:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=116265"},"modified":"2021-07-06T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T10:48:09","slug":"anganwadi-workers-struggle-with-centres-order-on-poshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anganwadi-workers-struggle-with-centres-order-on-poshan\/","title":{"rendered":"Anganwadi workers struggle with Centre\u2019s order on \u2018Poshan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GBF8NRCVF.1&amp;imageview=0\">The Hindu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Anganwadi workers in several States are concerned. A government order threatened them with a pay cut if they did not download the \u2018Poshan Tracker\u2019 app to record delivery of services by them.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About Poshan Tracker App:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Poshan Tracker App <\/strong>has been launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development(MoWCD).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purpose<\/strong>: The app enables real-time monitoring and tracking of the services provided by the Anganwadi Centre (AWC), Anganwadi Workers (AWWs), and beneficiaries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>The use of technology for real-time growth monitoring and tracking of beneficiaries is an important feature of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answeredwhat-are-the-objective-and-salient-features-of-national-nutrition-mission-discuss-various-challenges-to-national-nutrition-mission-and-how-to-tackle-the-same\/\">Poshan Abhiyaan.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Concerns Raised by the Anganwadi workers:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, <\/strong>they wanted to know who would give them the mobile phones and bear the expenses for recharge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly<\/strong>, who would train Anganwadi workers to use smartphones, as many workers only know how to use the mobile phones with keypads.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thirdly<\/strong>, many anganwadi centres are situated in remote locations and often don\u2019t have Internet connectivity. They need to walk 500 metres to 1 km to get some network coverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu What is the News? Anganwadi workers in several States are concerned. A government order threatened them with a pay cut if they did not download the \u2018Poshan Tracker\u2019 app to record delivery of services by them. About Poshan Tracker App: The Poshan Tracker App has been launched by the Ministry of Women&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anganwadi-workers-struggle-with-centres-order-on-poshan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anganwadi workers struggle with Centre\u2019s order on \u2018Poshan\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699968877},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}