HC asks state to give smartphones with Poshan tracker app to Anganwadi workers

The Bombay High Court Wednesday asked the state government to procure, make payments and distribute within four months updated and compatible smartphones to over one lakh Anganwadi workers across the state to enable them to enter beneficiary data on the Centre’s POSHAN tracker app.

The court said the state government’s submission – that minimum six months are required for the entire process of purchase and delivery of nearly 1.3 lakh smartphones at Anganwadi level – was “entirely unacceptable.”

A division bench of Justice Gautam S Patel and Justice Neela K Gokhale was, on April 19, hearing a plea filed by the Anganwadi Karmachari Sanghatana and other organisations representing over one lakh Anganwadi workers and over 10,000 mini Anganwadi workers –