For nearly five decades, Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) have served as vital community institutions at the grassroots level, delivering essential services under Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 (erstwhile Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)). AWCs continue to provide crucial support for early childhood care, maternal health, adolescent nutrition and act as a hub for community engagement.
As India moves towards the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047, there is a growing need to reimagine and modernize AWCs transforming them into vibrant, inclusive, and technology-enabled hubs of learning, nutrition and family support. Achieving this transformation requires not only Government action but also the active participation, creativity and ownership of its citizens.
In this spirit, the Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with MyGov proposes to launch a national online competition inviting people from all walks of life to contribute innovative, practical and culturally-rooted suggestions that can help shape the next generation of Anganwadi Centres and strengthen their role as engines of grassroots transformation.

Objectives:
1. To encourage public participation and innovative ideas on the theme “Anganwadi Centres of the Future”.
2. To invite transformative ideas from the citizens to reimagine AWCs into vibrant, inclusive, and tech-enabled hubs of learning, nutrition and family support.

Categories for online competition:
Participants are invited to contribute innovative ideas across the following key focus areas and submit ideas under any of the following seven categories. A short brief for each category is provided for clarity:

Category 1: Digital Innovation at AWCs
Propose simple, scalable, and cost-effective (low-cost technology) digital solutions to improve service delivery and monitoring in AWCs such as mobile apps for service tracking, digital learning for children, biometric attendance, or tele-health support for mothers.

Category 2: Strengthening Early Childhood Care & Education
Suggest ways to improve learning outcomes and play-based activities for children aged 3–6 years. Ideas may include curriculum innovations, toy/book libraries, parent-AWW engagement and capacity of AWW.

Category 3: Improved Nutrition and Health Delivery
Share ideas for better implementation of Take Home Ration (THR), hot cooked meals, implementing growth monitoring, nutrition counselling, or anaemia/malnutrition detection for children, mothers, and adolescent girls.

Category 4: Community Engagement and Multi-use of AWC Spaces
Propose innovative ways to turn AWCs into vibrant community spaces offering family counselling, parenting sessions, youth clubs, or wellness sessions for all age groups.

Category 5: Urban & Tribal Innovations for AWCs
Share your ideas on how Anganwadi Centres can better serve children and women in urban slum areas, tribal regions, and remote villages. These areas often face different challenges like overcrowding in cities or difficult terrain in forests and hills.

Category 6: Infrastructure and Disaster-Ready AWCs
Suggest creative ideas to make Anganwadi Centres stronger, safer, and better prepared for emergencies like floods, storms, heatwaves, earthquakes, or fires.

Category 7: Skilling and Empowerment Initiatives
Innovations to use AWCs as platforms for life skills, vocational training, and digital literacy for adolescent girls, young mothers, and local caregivers.

Terms of Reference (ToR) for Participants
1. Open to all Indian citizens, individually or in groups (students, professionals, NGOs, etc.).
2. The contest is open to all above 15 years of age.
3. Entries must be original, focused on the above categories.
4. Each entry must clearly state the idea, objective, beneficiaries and expected outcomes.
5. Short write-up (up to 200 words).
6. Submissions must be made via the MyGov platform during the announced competition window.
7. Only one entry per category is allowed.
8. Participant can submit entries in different category/categories also.
9. Language: Hindi or English.

Note: All the participants should provide a self-declaration that the submitted idea is their creativity and not copied from any other places/websites/published papers.

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Gratification:

Top one entry with the highest score (as per the evaluation criteria) in each category will be selected as a Winner (maximum 7 winners) and awarded with an amount of Rs. 10,000/- and an E-certificate.

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