Anganwadi Centers are the rural child care centres, these centres provide supplementary nutrition, non-formal preschool education, nutrition, health education, immunization, health check-up and referral services of which the last three are provided in convergence with public health systems, with the aim of providing all the above facilities for the welfare of the children in the state, Shri. Nara Chandrababu Naidu has implemented this scheme in Andhra Pradesh.
In the late ’90s, the scope of the Integrated Child Development Services program (ICDS) has been greatly expanded to combat child hunger and malnutrition and by the year 2000, Anganwadis were functioning in all the villages across the state. The TDP government under the administration of Shri. Nara Chandrababu Naidu has launched this scheme in Andhra Pradesh with the support of the central government. To gather more knowledge about other child welfare schemes and TDP political news explore the official TDP website.
The TDP Government and the TDP Party Leaders believe that Anganwadi workers are an important layer of human resources as they play a pivotal role in publicising and implementing the State-sponsored welfare programmes, there are 54,007 Anganwadi workers and as many helpers working in the state and training was given to every worker. The TDP government and the affiliated TDP MLAs have increased the allowance of Anganwadi workers from Rs. 500 to Rs. 1,060 and the payment of helpers was increased from Rs.250 to Rs. 500 during their eight-year regime.
Shri. Nara Chandrababu Naidu and his TDP government announced that nearly one lakh-odd Anganwadi workers in 55,600 centres across the state of Andhra Pradesh were actively involved in the implementation of 257 projects and the Micro nutrient-rich food was supplied through 24 tribal ICDS projects and under their priority list of Top TDP Policies, more than 2,500 Anganwadi centres and 1,800 new mini Anganwadi centres were launched and about 8,000 Anganwadi buildings had been constructed in the state during their recent tenure.
During their recent tenure (2014-19), the TDP Government under the governance of N. Chandrababu Naidu, the salaries of the Anganwadi workers had been raised twice in the last four years, from Rs. 4,200 to Rs. 10,500. The TDP Political Party had major plans to convert Anganwadi centres in urban local bodies (ULBs) into pre-schools, under this concept, Anganwadi centres will be transformed into play schools, where the kids would be provided with quality nutritional food along with toys and other play materials. All the Anganwadi centres in all the 110 urban local bodies will be upgraded into preschools within three months.
The TDP government wanted to set up Digital classrooms in all schools and anganwadis, for the welfare and development of children in the state and to convert Andhra Pradesh into Digital AP. A special budget was allocated for the construction of 7,000 Anganwadi centres and the setting up of preschool digital classrooms
With this goal, the TDP Political Party under the governance of N. Chandrababu Naidu with his TDP government has inaugurated a Digital Anganwadi centre, the first in the State, at Nerellavalasa village in Bheemunipatnam constituency. This major TDP Contribution towards the welfare of kids for them to learn through modern technologies, the state government received applause from across the state.
