WCD Gandhinagar Anganwadi Recruitment 2026 — 129 Vacancies

WCD Gandhinagar Anganwadi Recruitment 2026: Overview

District Panchayat Gandhinagar is taking women into honorary service as Anganwadi Worker (Karyakar) and Anganwadi Helper (Tedagar) through its ICDS branch, which runs under the Women and Child Development Department, Government of Gujarat. The district panchayat works 951 anganwadi centres through seven ICDS units across its four talukas, and this drive fills the gaps in that network under the centrally sponsored Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme. The engagement is honorary service on a fixed monthly honorarium, not a regular government job, and it is governed by the department’s anganwadi selection resolution. Because a candidate has to live in the area of the centre she applies for, the competition stays local rather than district-wide.

Posts and Disciplines

• Anganwadi Worker (Karyakar): the woman in charge of a single anganwadi centre, and the senior of the two honorary engagements. Helpers already serving at a centre are considered before fresh applicants for this post.
• Anganwadi Helper (Tedagar): the support engagement at the same centre, and the more numerous of the two in this notice.

Selection runs centre by centre across the four talukas of the district. You name the anganwadi centre you want while filling the form, and a separate merit list is drawn for that centre — so picking a centre with fewer applicants matters as much as your marks.

Service Conditions and Caveats

• Local residence: only a woman who has lived for at least a year in the revenue village area of the anganwadi centre can apply for it. The proof has to be the prescribed-format certificate issued by the Mamlatdar’s office through a Jan Seva Kendra, and it must be less than six months old counted from the date the advertisement came out.
• Honorary service: this is manad seva under the ICDS scheme, not a regular government post. Everything about the engagement follows the Women and Child Development Department resolution ICD/102019/1652/B (Part-2) dated 25 November 2019 and the amendments made to it from time to time.
• Priority for serving helpers: a woman already working as an Anganwadi Helper is considered ahead of other applicants for the Worker post under clauses 6.1 to 6.6 of that resolution, and a more relaxed upper age rule is applied to her.
• Cut-off: the last date of application is the cut-off for age, schooling and every other condition, so you must already meet all of them on that day.
• One family, one centre: two women of the same family cannot hold the Worker and Helper engagements at one anganwadi centre. The bar covers a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, two sisters, derani-jethani and nanand-bhabhi.
• Clean record: a woman facing a police complaint or a court conviction, declared insolvent, or removed or suspended from any earlier government, semi-government or honorary service as punishment cannot apply.
• No other office: if you hold an honorary or elected post in a local body, the Vidhan Sabha, the Lok Sabha, a cooperative body, a registered society or a registered trust and you do not want to leave it, you cannot apply.
• Accuracy: if the details typed into the form do not match the papers you upload, your candidature is cancelled and no request against that decision is heard. Scanned copies must be clean enough to read.

Application Submission Notes

The whole process is online on the Gujarat e-HRMS portal. Every district’s anganwadi advertisement is listed together there, so open the Gandhinagar row, read its notice and the common instructions linked next to it, and use the Apply button on that row. The form has to be filled in English.

Choose the anganwadi centre first and then the engagement you want. Uploads must be readable and in the format the portal asks for, and the details you type have to match them exactly. For help, the Gandhinagar district helpline is 9227823153, or you can walk into the Child Development Project Officer (ICDS) office at your taluka panchayat.