01551nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100002800060245007900088260002300167300003600190520095800226650004401184773002301228906001201251942000701263952011101270  c523868d523868231010b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGandham, Mamatha944084  aInvaluable Yet undervalued Anganwadi workers, organising to be recognised   aSocial Scientist    a51(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.39-50  aPublic 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   aAnganwadi workers, Women labours944085  aSocial Scientist    aLABOURS  cAR  00102ddc40709398915aIIPAbIIPAd2023-10-10h51(7-8), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.39-50pAR129750r2023-10-10yAR