01428nam a22001577a 4500 523868 523868 231010b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Gandham, Mamatha 44084 Invaluable Yet undervalued Anganwadi workers, organising to be recognised Social Scientist 51(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.39-50 Public policy in India views women’s labour, especially care work, through a narrow, gendered lens. This is evident from how the government of India (Got) treats Anganwadi workers and helpers, who from an exclusively family workfare working at the grassroots level of the integrated child development services (ICDS), a flagship progrmme of the gol. There are approximately 2.6 million Anganwadi works and helpers employed in the ICDS scheme (EPW editorial 2009). This paper examines the state’s perception of women’s work and its approach to care work, by discussing the issues of Anganwadi workers and helpers. The paper fouces on how these works joined together to gain collective voice and how, through unionizing they sought to improve their working and living conditions. It analyses the role played by the all India federation of Anganwadi workers and Helpers (AIFAWH), in organsing these works and the impact it had on them.- Reproduced Anganwadi workers, Women labours 44085 Social Scientist LABOURS AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 398915 IIPA IIPA 2023-10-10 51(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.39-50 AR129750 2023-10-10 AR