Digital Overreach: How the Poshan Tracker App Burdens Anganwadi Workers and Undermines Welfare
The Poshan Tracker app was introduced to improve nutrition service delivery, but for Anganwadi workers it has meant added digital burdens, surveillance, and loss of autonomy. Instead of supporting their essential care work, the app reduces them to data clerks, highlighting how techno-centric governance can deepen exclusion rather than empower frontline workers or beneficiaries.