ICDS Anand Anganwadi Recruitment 2026 — 232 Vacancies

ICDS Anand Anganwadi Recruitment 2026: Overview

The ICDS branch of the District Panchayat, Anand is taking women on as Anganwadi Workers and Anganwadi Helpers at the anganwadi centres of the district for the year 2026-27, under the Government of India's centrally sponsored Integrated Child Development Services scheme. One advertisement covers the whole district: the centres of fourteen ICDS units spread over all eight talukas of Anand, village by village. The engagement is honorary service tied to one named centre, not a regular panchayat or state government post, and only women from the revenue village that the centre serves can apply for it.

Posts and Disciplines

• Anganwadi Worker (Karyakar): the woman who holds the centre together — she teaches the pre-school batch, maintains the child and mother registers, and answers to the taluka's Child Development Project Officer for how her centre runs.
• Anganwadi Helper (Tedagar): the woman who does the ground work of the centre — gathering the children from the village, assisting at the feeding hour, and keeping the place fit for small children to sit in.

Every post belongs to a named centre in a named village. You choose that centre when you fill the form, and the district then publishes an online merit list for each anganwadi centre separately — so a village with few applicants is not flooded by candidates from the towns.

Post-wise Duties

Anganwadi Worker

You will hold the daily pre-school session for the three-to-six-year-olds of your village, serve the supplementary nutrition to them and to the pregnant and nursing mothers listed at your centre, and keep weighing the children so that faltering growth is noticed early. You assist the ANM and the health team on immunisation and check-up days, pass sick or severely undernourished children on to the primary health centre, and keep the registers the ICDS unit asks for. Much of the job is spent with the mothers of the village, talking about feeding, cleanliness and early childhood care.

Anganwadi Helper

You will collect the children from their homes and take them back, help the worker while the meal is served, and keep the centre's room, its utensils and its stored drinking water clean and ready before the session starts.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Local residence: you must be a resident of the revenue village whose area the anganwadi centre serves, and the district accepts only the prescribed-format certificate issued by the Mamlatdar through the Jan Seva Kendra as proof of it.
• Women only: the honorary service is open to women.
• Cut-off: the last day for applying is treated as the cut-off date — your age, your schooling and every other prescribed condition must already be fulfilled on that day.
• Nature of the engagement: honorary service for the year 2026-27 under the ICDS scheme; it carries no claim to a regular district panchayat or state government appointment.
• Serving helpers: a working Anganwadi Helper who applies for a Worker post is considered on a priority basis and gets a relaxed upper age bar.
• False or unclear entries: details found to be wrong or unclear at any stage make the application liable to cancellation, and no representation on it will be entertained.

Application Submission Notes

Applications go only through the Gujarat e-HRMS portal, where this drive is listed as the anganwadi advertisement marked ANAND. The common instructions sheet and the self-declaration form are linked beside that row, and the notice is clear that the form has to be filled in English even though the advertisement itself is in Gujarati.

Read the guidance on the portal before you start, because the form is filled once and the choices stick. You must name the exact anganwadi centre you want to serve, and every uploaded paper must be legible and in the prescribed format — an unreadable scan is treated as a defective application. For anything about the centres in your area, the Child Development Project Officer (ICDS) at your Taluka Panchayat office is the right place to ask.

• Conduct the daily pre-school session for children aged three to six at the anganwadi centre
• Distribute the supplementary nutrition to children and to pregnant and nursing mothers of the village
• Weigh the children at fixed intervals and update the growth and nutrition registers
• Assist the ANM and the health team on immunisation and health check-up days
• Refer sick, severely undernourished or disabled children to the primary health centre
• Counsel village mothers on feeding, hygiene and early childhood care
• Collect the children from their homes and help while the meal is served
• Keep the centre room, the utensils and the stored drinking water clean and ready