Karnataka Government to Provide Smartphones to 60,000 Anganwadi Teachers

The Karnataka government will be distributing over 60,000 smartphones at a cost of Rs.65 crore, to the Anganwadi workers across the state. The move will help teachers to upload the students' details such as height, weight, growth, and immunization status to the Common Application Service under the Poshan Abhiyan Scheme. An official said that smartphones will ease teacher's workload of maintaining 32 different registers.