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Honorarium for Aanganwadi Workers
By PIB Delhi
The Central Government is providing honorarium of Rs 4,500/- per month to Anganwadi Workers (AWWs), Rs 3,500/- per month to AWWs at mini-AWCs and Rs 2,250/- per month to AnganwadiHelpers (AWHs). The Government is also providing the performance-linked incentive of Rs 250/- per month to AWHs effective from 1st October 2018. AWWs are paid performance-linked incentive of Rs 500/- per month for using ICDS-CAS (Common Application Software) under POSHAN Abhiyaan. In addition to this, most of the States/UTs are also providing monetary incentives to these workers out of their own resources.
Under the Anganwadi Services Scheme, the funding pattern between Centre and States/UTs is as under:
Category of States/UTs Components General Salary SNP States/UTs with Legislature 60:40 25:75 50:50 NE/Himalayan States& UT of J&K 90:10 90:10 90:10 UT Without Legislature 100:0 100:0 100:0
Presently, there is no proposal under consideration to increase the honorarium of Anganwadi Workers.
AWWs/AWHs are honorary workers who come forward to render their services on payment of monthly honorarium. In view of the very nature of the role of Anganwadi Workers/Helpers, it is not feasible to declare them as regular/permanent employees. Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in a ruling of 07.12.2006 in Civil Appeal No. 4853-4957 of 1998 – State of Karnataka & Ors. vs. Ameerbi&Ors. has held that Anganwadi Workers/Helpers do not hold any civil post.
Out of 16 recommendations/observations made by the Dr. ChandreshKumari Committee, 14 recommendations have been implemented. Pursuant to the observations made by the Committee in its Sixteen Report, Ministry of Women & Child Development has furnished action taken report to the Committee.
State/UT-wise number of Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) in the country is as under:
S no. State/UT Number of AWW Sanctioned In-position 1 Andhra Pradesh 55607 53942 2 Telangana 35700 34164 3 Arunachal Pradesh 6225 6225 4 Assam 62153 60942 5 Bihar 115009 105383 6 Chhattisgarh 52474 50030 7 Goa 1262 1198 8 Gujarat 53029 51524 9 Haryana 25962 25152 10 Himachal Pradesh 18925 18759 11 Jammu & Kashmir 31938 29830 12 Jharkhand 38432 37821 13 Karnataka 65911 64440 14 Kerala 33318 33115 15 Madhya Pradesh 97135 96119 16 Maharashtra 110486 105592 17 Manipur 11510 11302 18 Meghalaya 5896 5879 19 Mizoram 2244 2244 20 Nagaland 3980 3980 21 Odisha 74154 70188 22 Punjab 27314 26652 23 Rajasthan 62010 61593 24 Sikkim 1308 1301 25 Tamil Nadu 54439 49182 26 Tripura 10145 9911 27 Uttar Pradesh 190145 171245 28 Uttarakhand 20067 19521 29 West Bengal 119481 107939 30 A & N Islands 720 719 31 Chandigarh 450 450 32 Delhi 10897 9353 33 Dadra & N Haveli 302 302 34 Daman & Diu 107 98 35 Lakshadweep 107 107 36 Puducherry 855 780 Total 1399697 1326982
(As on 30.09.2019)
This information was given by the Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
