Lok Sabha Question No. 4991 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-03-31
Subject: Smartphone to Anganwadi Workers
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Bhagirath Chaudhary

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 4991

TO BE ANSWERED ON 31.03.2023

## SMARTPHONE TO ANGANWADI WORKERS

## 4991.  SHRI BHAGIRATH CHOUDHARY:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has formulated a scheme to provide Make in India smartphones for  enabling  the  Anganwadi  workers  to  maintain  digital  record rather than the written record since maintaining record of the huge number of persons is a tiring and time consuming task and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether  any  timeline  has  been  fixed  to  provide  smartphones  to  all  the Anganwadi  workers  in  the  country  including  Rajasthan  and  if  so,  the  total number of States/UTs in which the said smartphones have been distributed so far;
- (c) the total amount of Budget allocated for the said purpose during the period from 2019-20 to 2023-24; and
- (d) the total amount spent for the said purpose so far, year-wise and State/UTwise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a) Under POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi workers (AWWs) have been technologically  empowered  with  the  provision  of  smartphones  procured  through Government  e-Market  (GeM)  for  efficient service delivery. Close  to 11 lakh Smartphones have been procured by States/UTs, so far, which includes the state of Rajasthan.

Further, the ICT based mobile application named as Poshan Tracker has helped in digitizing  and  automating  the  physical  registers  used  by  Anganwadi  workers.  This saves the time of AWWs and AWHs, and improves the quality of their work while simultaneously facilitating monitoring of data and service delivery.

- (b)         Since  the  launch  of  the  Abhiyan,  the  Ministry  has  been  directing  the States/UTs  to  procure  smartphones.  As  on  date,  all  States/UTs  have  procured smartphones except few States which are in the process of procurement, as informed by these States.

(c) Poshan Abhiyan is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme at a cost-sharing basis, within which  funds  are  allocated  to  States/UTs  for  various  sub-components,  including procurement of smartphones and Growth Monitoring Devices,  Jan Andolan activities, innovations, Community Based Events, Data recharge for smartphones etc.

Procurement  of  Smartphones  is  one  of  the  sub-components.  As  per  the  Scheme Guidelines, the sanctioned amount is Rs 8000/plus taxes for each smartphone.

The year- wise details of the budget allocated to Poshan Abhiyan from FY 2019-20 to FY 2022-23 as on 27.02.2023 are as under:

(₹ in crore)

|   Sr. No. | Year    | Outlay   | BE        | RE                | Released              |
|-----------|---------|----------|-----------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|         3 | 2917.34 | 3400.00  | 3400.00   | 1842.68           | 2019-20               |
|         4 | ----    | 3700.00  | 600.00    | 268.40            | 2020-21               |
|         5 |         | ----     | 20105.00* | 19999.55 17352.90 | 2021-22               |
|         6 | 2022-23 | ----     | 20263.07  | 20263.07          | 17832.83 (28.03.2023) |

(d) State/UT-wise details of funds released and utilized under Poshan Abhiyan,is at Annexure I.

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State-wise statement of funds released and  utilization (as reported by States/UTs) under POSHAN Abhiyaan (as on 28.02.2023)

Annexure-I Amount in ₹lakhs

|   Sl. | States/UTs                   |   Central Funds released in 2019-20 |   Central Funds released in 2020- 21 |   Central Funds released in 2021- 22 |   Total Central Funds released till 28.02.2023 |   Total Central Funds utilised as on 28.02.2023 |
|-------|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|     1 | A & N ISLANDS                |                              307.62 |                               100    |                               518.98 |                                        1343.49 |                                          413.54 |
|     2 | ANDHRA PRADESH               |                            13296.5  |                               889.71 |                                 0    |                                       25363.3  |                                        17560.8  |
|     3 | ARUNACHAL PRADESH            |                             1006.62 |                                99.6  |                                 0    |                                        2815.88 |                                         1064.21 |
|     4 | ASSAM                        |                            14171    |                               987.04 |                                 0    |                                       32948.7  |                                        21276.3  |
|     5 | BIHAR                        |                            25465    |                              1835.48 |                                 0    |                                       49365.6  |                                        30678.4  |
|     6 | CHANDIGARH                   |                              353    |                               107.2  |                               122.66 |                                         890.04 |                                          573.96 |
|     7 | CHHATTISGARH                 |                                0    |                               839.58 |                                 0    |                                       11434.5  |                                         7303.88 |
|     8 | D & N HAVELI and DAMAN & DIU |                              878.14 |                                 0    |                                 0    |                                        1196.11 |                                          769.67 |
|     9 | DELHI                        |                                0    |                               174.35 |                                 0    |                                        3327.18 |                                         2549.6  |
|    10 | GOA                          |                                0    |                                20.19 |                                 0    |                                         456.04 |                                          249.13 |
|    11 | GUJARAT                      |                            14863    |                                 0    |                                 0    |                                       29127.7  |                                        22074.1  |
|    12 | HARYANA                      |                                0    |                               415.39 |                                 0    |                                        6808.82 |                                         5790.88 |
|    13 | HIMACHAL PRADESH             |                                0    |                                 0    |                                 0    |                                       10895.4  |                                         7711.43 |
|    14 | JAMMU & KASHMIR              |                             1238.29 |                               492.24 |                                 0    |                                        9224.35 |                                         9160.82 |
|    15 | JHARKHAND                    |                                0    |                                 0    |                                 0    |                                        6665.8  |                                         5467.55 |
|    16 | KARNATAKA                    |                             7967.39 |                              1054.58 |                                 0    |                                       14276.5  |                                        13221.9  |
|    17 | KERALA                       |                                0    |                              2679.61 |                                 0    |                                       10444.9  |                                         7474.28 |
|    18 | LADAKH                       |                                0    |                               118.76 |                                 0    |                                         118.76 |                                            9.94 |

| 19    | LAKSHADWEEP    |    126.75 |   100.00 |     0.00 |    425.65 |    356.05 |
|-------|----------------|-----------|----------|----------|-----------|-----------|
| 20    | MADHYA PRADESH |      0    |  1554.16 |     0    |  39398.5  |  20087.8  |
| 21    | MAHARASHTRA    |  33061.5  |  1767.77 |     0    |  60810.8  |  43714.4  |
| 22    | MANIPUR        |      0    |   184.16 |     0    |   4389.99 |   3714.79 |
| 23    | MEGHALAYA      |   2802.8  |    94.33 |     0    |   5073.38 |   5073.38 |
| 24    | MIZORAM        |   1498    |     0    |   753.48 |   3328.51 |   2575.03 |
| 25    | NAGALAND       |   2298.17 |  1550.11 |   360.12 |   5624.11 |   5263.99 |
| 26    | ODISHA         |      0    |     0    | 12842.4  |  28014.5  |  15172.1  |
| 27    | PUDUCHERRY     |    497    |    13.68 |     0    |    943.62 |    264.58 |
| 28    | PUNJAB         |      0    |     0    |     0    |   6909.84 |     30.24 |
| 29    | RAJASTHAN      |   8941    |     0    |     0    |  22904.2  |  12258.1  |
| 30    | SIKKIM         |    923    |    20.92 |     0    |   1370.98 |   1370.99 |
| 31    | TAMIL NADU     |  11509    |     0    |     0    |  25060.4  |  21879.4  |
| 32    | TELANGANA      |   7003    |   571.2  |     0    |  17906.8  |  15786.9  |
| 33    | TRIPURA        |      0    |   162.32 |     0    |   4135.95 |   3774.79 |
| 34    | UTTAR PRADESH  |  16166    |  2779.49 |     0    |  56969    |  41834.8  |
| 35    | UTTARAKHAND    |   7086    |   321.07 |     0    |  13574.9  |  10769.9  |
| 36    | WEST BENGAL    |      0    |  1911.7  |     0    |  26751.1  |      0    |
| Total | Total          | 171459    | 20844.7  | 14597.6  | 540295    | 357278    |

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