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Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0: six services for children below 6, pregnant & lactating mothers, and adolescent girls via Anganwadi Centres
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0: six Anganwadi services plus digital accountability via Poshan Tracker
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Samachar Pathshala Desk
Published 25 Jul 2026 · 1 min
Key takeaways
- Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 delivers six services through Anganwadi Centres and links health-related components to NHM public health delivery structures.
- Poshan Tracker is used for near real-time monitoring of Anganwadi operations and beneficiary-linked indicators, including child attendance, ECCE activities, growth monitoring, and meal and take-home ration delivery tracking.
- Aadhaar-based tracking with facial recognition is described as supporting beneficiary verification and reducing leakages and ghost entries; the government states a high Aadhaar verification share among registered beneficiaries.
What happened
Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 provides six named services through Anganwadi Centres nationwide for eligible beneficiaries. Immunization, health check-up, and referral services are supported through the National Health Mission (NHM) and public health infrastructure.
Background and earlier position
The UPSC angle
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Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0: service-bundling plus digital beneficiary authentication
UPSC may frame Anganwadi delivery as a nutrition-health governance problem: how a bundled package of services, NHM-linked health components, and Aadhaar-based verification aim to reduce leakages while raising questions about exclusion and authentication mismatch risks.
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