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TopicAnganwadi workers

Topic: anganwadi workers

Tamil Nadu’s Anganwadi workers are drowning in data duties. Apps, OTPs & digital surveillance

As beneficiaries become data points on the dashboard, Anganwadi workers in Tamil Nadu grapple with an overload of digital labor, being data collectors building a state’s health repository, and being subjects of surveillance.

Shining Gujarat has a health problem. Missing MBBS doctors in rural PHCs

In terms of child malnutrition, Gujarat is worse than Bihar and Odisha. The number of malnourished children in Tamil Nadu is almost half that of Gujarat.

‘Futile to die for duty’: Most dead anganwadis’ kin haven’t got Rs 50L relief UP govt promised

UP govt announced Rs 50 lakh compensation in May 2021 for 72 anganwadi workers who died while on Covid duty. Only 12 families have received funds so far, says govt official.

With no routine check-ups or ASHA workers, UP’s Chitrakoot sees rise in home births during Covid

District health department data shows there has been a decline in institutional deliveries. Officials cite pandemic, lockdown & vaccine drive as the reasons behind the drop.

In ‘Left-less’ Haryana, CM tears down ‘lal jhandewaale’ over anganwadi stir

Congress says Khattar just wanted to gloat over party’s Tripura victory.

Punjab begins pre-primary classes in all govt schools, anganwadi workers miffed

Punjab becomes first state to start pre-primary classes in all 13,000 of its govt schools, but anganwadi workers fear this will take away their jobs.

On Camera

Modern lovers don’t kiss and tell. Only ChatGPT knows the relationship problems

The kids these days reject TMI. Welcome to emotional minimalism: Share less, reveal slowly, and only when the relationship can withstand public scrutiny.

Amid the new war in Middle East, ‘God’ surfaces in oil and commodities contracts

Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.

Iranian naval ship Lavan with crew of 184 docked in Kochi same day US torpedoed IRIS Dena

IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.

Trump brings the Age of Humiliation for friends. Modi needs stoicism abroad, humility at home

Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.