A Study on Job Performance of Anganwadi Workers under ICDS Scheme in Sehore District of Madhya Pradesh

Under ICDS various jobs are assigned to Anganwadi workers which include coordination with block and district health care establishments to avail medical schemes and to help pregnant/lactating women and infants for nutrition supplements. Anganwadi workers also focus to ascertain immunization and health check-ups for women and children. They organize supplementary nutrition for feeding infants and keep a record of expecting mother's childbirths and diseases/infections of any kind. They work proactively to spread awareness of health schemes run by government and inform supervisors for village's health progression, or issues needing attention and intervention. Keeping in view the job performance of Anganwadi workers was studied by taking 120 Anganwadi workers of Sehore district. The main finding is that most of the Anganwadi workers (40.00%) had moderate job performance, 34.17% of workers had low job performance whereas, only 25.33% Anganwadi workers had high job performance.