{"id":195019,"date":"2026-02-16T10:35:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=195019"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:35:04","slug":"iiojk-anganwadi-workers-receive-paltry-rs-600-top-up-lagging-behind-indian-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/02\/16\/iiojk-anganwadi-workers-receive-paltry-rs-600-top-up-lagging-behind-indian-states.html","title":{"rendered":"IIOJK Anganwadi workers receive paltry Rs 600 top-up, lagging behind Indian states"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Srinagar: Community workers for women and children development known as Anganwadi Workers in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir receive a meager Rs 600 monthly top-up, starkly contrasting with Indian states like Haryana, which provides up to Rs 10,250. This disparity highlights the territory’s neglect, as revealed in Lok Sabha data.<\/p>\n

According to Kashmir Media Service, Haryana tops the list with a monthly top-up of Rs 10,250, followed by Telangana (Rs 9,150), Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra (Rs 8,500 each), Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka (Rs 7,000 each), and Ladakh (Rs 1,300). In contrast, IIOJK’s Rs 600 top-up is among the lowest, underscoring the regional disparities in support for frontline workers.<\/p>\n

The data was presented in Lok Sabha in response to a question by Indian Minister of State for Women and Child Development Savitri Thakur.<\/p>\n

The AWWs, who are honorary workers drawn from local communities, receive a monthly honorarium of Rs 4,500, with performance-linked incentives of Rs 500.<\/p>\n

The issue has sparked concerns about the neglect of IIOJK workers, who are among the lowest-paid under India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Srinagar: Community workers for women and children development known as Anganwadi Workers in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir receive a meager Rs 600 monthly top-up, starkly contrasting with Indian states like Haryana, which provides up to Rs 10,250. This disparity highlights the territory’s neglect, as revealed in Lok Sabha data. According to Kashmir Media …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-occupied-jammu-and-kashmir"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/02\/aganwadi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195021,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195019\/revisions\/195021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}