The Anganwadi Workers Training Centre
The Anganwadi Programme, started by the Government of
India in 1975 as part of the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), is
a grassroots programme that reaches out to women in rural areas and urban
slums, to educate them on matters of basic health and hygiene, nutrition,
pre- natal and post-natal maternal and childcare and child rearing.
Angan
means courtyard in Hindi and it is the heart of family and community life in
the villages of India. This is where the Anganwadi workers gather together
women of the community to impart information and provide welfare services.
Over the years, the Anganwadi Programme has played a significant role in
changing the lives of those it has reached out to. Infant and child
mortality rates have dropped due, in no small measure, to the awareness
generated by the Anganwadi Workers on the need for timely immunization;
nutrition and health standards have improved with the introduction of food
items like soya nuggets, the emphasis laid on breast milk and the imparting
of first aid skills; self-employment schemes have started up in villages.
DCCW, is appointed by the State Government, to run
three of the five Anganwadi Workers Training Centres in Delhi.