ICDS Narmada Anganwadi Recruitment 2026 — 82 Vacancies

ICDS Narmada Anganwadi Recruitment 2026: Overview

The ICDS branch of the District Panchayat, Narmada has opened its Anganwadi Worker and Anganwadi Helper intake for the year 2026-27 under the centrally sponsored Integrated Child Development Services scheme. The advertisement, issued over the District Development Officer's e-signature, covers the anganwadi centres of seven ICDS units across the district's six talukas — a largely tribal district where the anganwadi is often the first classroom a village child sees. The engagement is honorary service attached to one named centre, not a regular panchayat or state government post, and it is open only to women of the revenue village that the centre serves.

Posts and Disciplines

• Anganwadi Worker (Karyakar): the woman who runs the centre — the pre-school batch, the growth and nutrition registers, and the link between the ICDS unit and the families of her village.
• Anganwadi Helper (Tedagar): the woman who supports the centre day to day — fetching the children, helping at the feeding hour, and keeping the room and the vessels ready for use.

Both posts belong to particular centres rather than to a district pool. The centre you name in the form is the only one you are in the running for, and the district publishes an online merit list centre by centre — in a small hamlet that can mean a very short list.

Post-wise Duties

Anganwadi Worker

You will take the pre-school session for the three-to-six-year-olds of your village, serve the supplementary nutrition to those children and to the pregnant and nursing mothers on your centre's list, and weigh the children often enough to spot one who is losing ground. You stand with the health staff on immunisation and check-up days, send a sick or badly undernourished child on to the primary health centre, and keep the registers your ICDS unit needs. A good part of the work is simply persuasion — convincing families in scattered hamlets to send their small children to the centre and to bring the mothers in for their own check-ups.

Anganwadi Helper

You will bring the children in from the houses around the centre and see them back, help the worker while the meal is served, and keep the room, the cooking vessels and the drinking water clean and ready before the session begins.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Local residence: you must live in the revenue village whose area the anganwadi centre serves, and the only proof the district accepts is the prescribed-format certificate issued by the Mamlatdar through the Jan Seva Kendra.
• Women only: the honorary service is open to women.
• Cut-off: the final day of the application window is the cut-off date — age, schooling and every other prescribed condition have to be complete by then.
• Nature of the engagement: honorary service for 2026-27 under the ICDS scheme; it gives no claim to a regular panchayat or state government appointment.
• Serving helpers: an Anganwadi Helper already in service who applies for a Worker post is taken up on a priority basis, with her upper age bar relaxed.
• False or unclear entries: anything wrong or unclear found at any stage makes the application liable to cancellation, and no representation about it will be heard.

Application Submission Notes

Everything is done on the Gujarat e-HRMS portal, where this drive sits in the advertisement list as the anganwadi notice marked NARMADA. The common instructions sheet and the self-declaration form are linked next to that row, and the form itself must be filled in English although the advertisement is published in Gujarati.

Work through the guidance on the portal before you begin. You have to select the exact anganwadi centre you wish to serve, and each document you upload must be clearly readable and in the format the portal prescribes, or the application can be set aside as defective. If you are unsure which centres fall in your area, ask the Child Development Project Officer (ICDS) at your Taluka Panchayat office in Narmada district.

• Take the daily pre-school session for children aged three to six at the anganwadi centre
• Serve the supplementary nutrition to children and to pregnant and nursing mothers of the village
• Weigh the children regularly and keep the growth and nutrition registers updated
• Support the health staff on immunisation and health check-up days at the centre
• Refer sick, severely undernourished or disabled children to the primary health centre
• Persuade families in the surrounding hamlets to send their small children to the centre
• Bring the children in from nearby houses and help while the meal is served
• Keep the centre room, the cooking vessels and the drinking water clean and ready