Ministry of Women and Child Development

Make in India Smart Phones for Anganwadi Workers

Posted On: 06 AUG 2021 5:00PM by PIB Delhi

Anganwadi workers are empowered with the provision of smart phones procured through Government e-Market (GeM) for efficient service delivery. Ministry has been pursuing with States to saturate access to smart phones for Anganwadi Workers and have recently, in States review meetings, taken up the issue again. A total of 8.66 lakh smart phones have been procured by 32 States/UTs. In addition, States/UTs are advised to introduce transparent processes for procurement of mobile phones as per GFR and vigilance guidelines. The mobile application of POSHAN Abhiyaan digitizes and automates physical registers used by Aanganwadi workers. This saves the time of AWWs and AWHs, and improves the quality of their work while simultaneously allowing them real-time monitoring. The details of the Smartphones procured by States/UTs including the state of Bihar under POSHAN Abhiyaan is at Annexure I.

Under POSHAN Abhiyaan, funds released to States/UTs for program implementation, including procurement of smartphones for FY 2019-20 and 2020-21 along with total central fund utilisation as on 31st March 2021 is at Annexure II.

This information was given by the Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

 

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Annexure-I

State/UT wise details of Smartphones Procured under POSHAN Abhiyaan

Sl.

States/UTs

Smartphones Procured

 
 

1

A & N ISLANDS

795

 

2

ANDHRA PRADESH

61005

 

3

ARUNACHAL PRADESH

149

 

4

ASSAM

56619

 

5

BIHAR

121174

 

6

CHANDIGARH

496

 

7

CHHATTISGARH

29942

 

8

D & N HAVELI and DAMAN & DIU

444

 

9

DELHI

11500

 

10

GOA

1413

 

11

GUJARAT

58261

 

12

HARYANA

0

 

13

HIMACHAL PRADESH

20725

 

14

JAMMU & KASHMIR

31174

 

15

JHARKHAND

12399

 

16

KARNATAKA

72049

 

17

KERALA

36435

 

18

LADAKH

1300

 

19

LAKSHADWEEP

112

 

20

MADHYA PRADESH

29784

 

21

MAHARASHTRA

120335

 

22

MANIPUR

2600

 

23

MEGHALAYA

6428

 

24

MIZORAM

2479

 

25

NAGALAND

4409

 

26

ODISHA

0

 

27

PUDUCHERRY

855

 

28

PUNJAB

0

 

29

RAJASTHAN

23005

 

30

SIKKIM

1442

 

31

TAMIL NADU

59488

 

32

TELANGANA

11398

 

33

TRIPURA

10735

 

34

UTTAR PRADESH

54818

 

35

UTTARAKHAND

21809

 

36

WEST BENGAL

0

 

Total

865577

 

 

Annexure II

Details of funds allocated to the States/UTs and utilised for all components including for procurement of Smart Phones under POSHAN Abhiyaan for FYs 2019-20 and 2020-21

Rs. In lakhs

SN

State/UT

Central Funds released in
2019-20

Central Funds released in
2020-21

Total Central fund utilization as on
31.03.2021

1

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

307.62

111.52

421.44

2

Andhra Pradesh

13296.52

889.71

16601.84

3

Arunachal Pradesh

0

99.6

708.11

4

Assam

14171

987.04

18117.52

5

Bihar

25465

1835.49

27823.99

6

Chandigarh

526.97

107.2

513.96

7

Chhattisgarh

0

839.58

6505.25

8

Dadra Nagar Haveli

436.16

100.00

682.98

8

Daman & Diu

446.98

0

 

9

Delhi

0

174.35

2432.58

10

Goa

0

20.19

222.24

11

Gujarat

14863

848.47

21769.01

12

Haryana

0

415.39

4326

13

Himachal Pradesh

4960

302.8

7010.78

14

Jammu & Kashmir

0

492.24

7912.09

15

Jharkhand

0

614.91

5245.93

16

Karnataka

0

1054.58

11133.42

17

Kerala

0

3209.45

6696.51

18

Ladakh

0

118.77

51.41

19

Lakshadweep

126.75

101.71

287.27

20

Madhya Pradesh

17883

1554.16

18516.83

21

Maharashtra

33061.47

1767.78

40154.5

22

Manipur

0

184.16

2138.4

23

Meghalaya

2802.8

94.34

4979.05

24

Mizoram

1498

157.93

2575.03

25

Nagaland

2298.17

1613.79

5239.26

26

Odisha

0

1186.47

7555.69

27

Puducherry

497

13.68

264.58

28

Punjab

0

437.02

2470.04

29

Rajasthan

8941

992.32

10349.79

30

Sikkim

923

20.93

1276.83

31

Tamil Nadu

11509

871.02

19476.85

32

Telangana

7003

571.2

14824.33

33

Tripura

0

162.32

3155.13

34

Uttar Pradesh

16166

2779.49

19219.28

35

Uttarakhand

7086

321.07

7898

36

West Bengal

0

1911.7

0

 

Total

184268.4

26962.38

298555.92

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