VMC Vadodara Anganwadi Recruitment 2026 — 80 Vacancies

VMC Vadodara Anganwadi Recruitment 2026: Overview

The ICDS Branch of Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) is taking women into the city's Anganwadi centres as Anganwadi Worker (Karyakar) and Anganwadi Helper (Tedagar) for the year 2026-27, under the centrally sponsored Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. This advertisement, P.R.O. No. 216/26-27, covers the centres of 19 wards grouped into four zones — VMC East, West, North and South, and it is separate from the Vadodara district panchayat advertisement that covers the villages outside the city. The corporation has printed the full centre list with ward numbers and addresses, so you can see exactly which centre you are applying to. The engagement is honorary service (manad seva) paid as a monthly honorarium, not a municipal job with a pay scale.

Posts and Disciplines

• Anganwadi Worker (Karyakar): the woman who runs one Anganwadi centre in her own ward, engaged on honorary service by the corporation's ICDS branch. A serving Anganwadi Helper can also move into a Worker post through the priority route this notice allows.
• Anganwadi Helper (Tedagar): the support role at the same centre, on the same honorary terms and taken from the same ward area.
• Where the centres are: across all four zones of the city — VMC East (Sawad, Bapod, Vemali, Varasiya, Ramdevnagar), VMC North (Ektanagar, Chhani, Fatehpura, Navapura, Shiyabaug), VMC South (Tarsali, Gajrawadi, Makarpura, Danteshwar, Yamunamil) and VMC West (Jetalpur, Bhayali, Bil, Atladara, Diwalipura, Sevasi, Karodiya, Subhanpura). The advertisement gives the address of every centre.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Women only: the corporation invites women for both roles.
• Ward resident rule: you must already live in the ward area that your chosen Anganwadi centre serves, and the only accepted proof is the prescribed certificate issued through the Mamlatdar's Jan Seva Kendra.
• Honorary engagement: this is manad seva under the ICDS scheme — a monthly honorarium, with none of the pay scale, seniority or service benefits of a regular corporation post.
• Existing and expected centres: the list mixes centres that are vacant now with ones the corporation expects to fall vacant, so the final number taken on at a particular centre can change.
• Cut-off day: the last date of application is the cut-off date — age, education and every other condition must already be complete on that day.
• Merit list, no exam: a centre-wise online merit list is prepared from your education and the marks you scored, and published following the prescribed procedure — there is no written test and no interview in this notice.
• Wrong or unclear entries: if what you upload is false or not readable, your application can be cancelled and no representation will be heard.

Application Submission Notes

Apply on the Gujarat e-HRMS portal at e-hrms.gujarat.gov.in. On the Advertisement list, open the row that ends in VADODARA URBAN — the plain VADODARA row is the district panchayat's rural advertisement, so read the district name before pressing Apply. The form is filled in English, and the instructions and guide sit on the same portal; uploaded documents must be readable and in the prescribed format. The corporation has printed the zone-wise Child Development Project Officer contacts — the East zone office at the Ward-5 office near Navjivan Chokdi on Ajwa Road, West zone at the Ward-7 office in Nagarwada, North zone at the Ward-3 office in Fatehgunj and South zone at the Ward-15 office near Mahesh Complex on Waghodia Road. The notice asks you to phone them only in special cases and only during office hours, and to visit the office otherwise.