Apps were meant to streamline Anganwadi data, but they’re depriving some workers of benefits
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In August 2025, I made it a point to meet with Anganwadi workers (AWW) across several villages within the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve to learn more about their experiences with the Poshan Tracker app. Among the six workers I met, only one used the app herself. Among the AWWs of Bamhni, Atariya, Surhi (which has two centres), Mahamai and Jakadbandha, one worker said her husband manages the application using her login credentials and transcribes data from her handwritten records. All uploading has to be done from the top of the hillock behind her village when the network is good enough. She herself knows nothing about it. Four others say they do not use the app – their sons do the data entry.
Only one worker stated that she enters the information in the app herself, but it takes a very long time due to the poor internet speed. When I met her, she was also busy verifying and entering data for women eligible to receive money under the Mahtari Vandana Yojana, a scheme under which eligible women over 21 years of age receive Rs 1,000 per month into their bank accounts. “The net result,” she tells me, her tone critical of the...