Nine out of 10 demands raised by anganwadi workers have already been addressed, says Minister Sandhya Rani

Minister for Women and Child Welfare and Tribal Welfare Gummidi Sandhya Rani connected Thursday (March 05) said the authorities had already addressed 9 retired of the 10 demands raised by anganwadi workers.

Responding to a query raised successful the Assembly by members P. Ramesh Babu and Mohammed Nazeer regarding the functioning and infrastructure of anganwadi centres successful the State, the Minister said arsenic portion of extending enactment to anganwadi staff, their salaries were accrued from ₹4,200 to ₹7,000 and later, to ₹10,500 successful 2018 and ₹15,000 assistance was provided towards ceremonial expenses for the deceased staff. “The 2025 fund has besides allocated ₹20 crore to resoluteness their long-pending issues,” she said.

She informed the House that retired of the 55,746 anganwadi centres presently operating crossed 257 Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) projects successful Andhra Pradesh, 21,756 centres relation successful their ain buildings, 10,566 run successful different authorities buildings, and 23,424 tally successful rented premises. She said 2,922 anganwadi buildings are nether operation astatine assorted stages, including 948 astatine the finishing stage, 873 astatine slab level, 351 astatine extortion level, 269 astatine lintel stage, 429 astatine basement signifier and 52 buildings astatine instauration stage.

She said proposals worthy ₹193.92 crore were nether information to implicit these buildings, including ₹48.52 crore for those successful the last stage. The authorities had already released ₹4 crore successful 2025–26 to implicit buildings nearing completion and nether the PM-JANMAN scheme, ₹9.36 crore had been released for the operation of 78 anganwadi buildings successful Srikakulam, Parvathipuram and Alluri Sitarama Raju districts, she informed, adding that further funds of ₹4 crore had besides been released for completing pending buildings and ₹1.94 crore for completed structures.

The Minister said anganwadi centres provided nutritious food, pre-school acquisition and wellness check-ups to children beneath six years of age, large women and lactating mothers. To fortify monitoring and work delivery, the authorities had distributed 5G smartphones worthy ₹75 crore to 58,204 anganwadi workers, supervisors and artifact coordinators. She said attendance astatine anganwadi centres had accrued from 70% to 96%, which she attributed to the existent conjugation government’s initiatives.

Ms. Sandhya Rani said the authorities was presently conducting maturation monitoring for astir 30 lakh children each month, utilizing a mobile app-based strategy for 100% real-time information introduction to way proviso and utilisation and that 15 varieties of nutritious nutrient items, including eggs, beverage and nutrition mixes specified arsenic Balamrutham, were being distributed regularly.