Indore: Taking another step towards making Indore anganwadi paper-free by promoting digitalization of work, the woman and child development department has purchased as many as 1,911 smartphones, but were yet to be distributed among the workers and supervisors even after passing one-and-a-half months of the procurement.
The department has purchased smartphones of Samsung Company costing around Rs 9,500/each and total worth of Rs 1.81 Crore to be distributed among as many as 1,839 Anganwadi workers and 72 supervisors. The delay in distributing the smartphones is attributed due to administration’s busyness in making required arrangements for the NRI and Global Investors Summit.
So far, the Anganwadi workers have been making entries of their routine works in 12 registers along with posting the same on the central government’s SAMPARK App using their own mobile phones.
“Anganwadi workers are being paid Rs 200/monthly to recharge their mobile internet to make required entries on SAMPARK app using their own mobile phones” WCD district programme officer Ramniwas Budholiya said, adding that under the central government’s scheme, a total 1,911 smartphones have been bought to distribute among all the Anganwadi workers and the supervisors.
As per the official source, the process to buy the smartphones was started around four months ago and was completed in two phases around one-and-a-half months ago. “We have planned assembly constituency wise programmes to distribute the smartphones by the ministers and local public representatives that will start in this week” he said.