Women, Child, Disable & Senior Citizens Department
District Welfare Officer (WCDSC), Jagtial office is functioning to look after the Welfare of Women, Children, Disabled and Senior Citizens.
The main objectives are
- Achieve the desired targets for reducing malnutrition, infant and maternal mortality
- Deliver nutrition and ICDS services effectively with optimum utilization of resources to improve nutrition status of pregnant and lactating women and children under 6 years
- Ensure protection of children and women in difficult circumstances particularly by providing institutional services and handling legal/ empowerment issues relating to them
- Ensure that the needs of disabled and senior citizens are met especially in the area of education, employment, access and social security
ICDS where in a package of services comprising supplementary nutrition, immunization, health check-up and referral services, pre-school non-formal education provided to Pregnant, Lactating and Children aged 0 to 6 years.
There are 1065 Anganwadi Centres (AWC) functioning in the district in 4 ICDS Projects. (1037 Main Centres and 28 Mini Centres)
Project |
No. of AWC Sanctioned |
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Main |
Mini |
TOTAL |
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DHARMAPURI |
204 |
18 |
222 |
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JAGITYAL |
294 |
10 |
304 |
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MALLIAL |
227 |
0 |
227 |
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METPALLY |
312 |
0 |
312 |
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DISTRICT TOTAL |
1037 |
28 |
1065 |
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STAFF PATTERN of ICDS |
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S.No. |
Designation of Sanctioned Post |
Sanctioned Strength |
Position |
Vacant |
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1 |
DWO |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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2 |
CDPO |
4 |
4 |
0 |
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3 |
ACDPO |
4 |
4 |
0 |
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4 |
Supervisors |
42 |
20 |
22 |
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5 |
AWT |
1065 |
1047 |
18 |
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6 |
AWW |
1037 |
965 |
72 |