Ludhiana, June 26 -- Anganwadi workers led by Anganwadi Mulazim Union Punjab protested here on Wednesday demanding laptops and internet connections at Anganwadi centres to facilitate the tasks in the Poshan Tracker app.

The anganwadi workers, according to Subhash Rani, president of Anganwadi Mulazim Union Punjab, are supposed to enter all the details of food items dispensed at the centres in the app. But they don't have the devices to use the application.

"We are asked to use our personal phones. Why should we use our personal phones," she asked, pointing that the Union Government has been giving funds for providing the anganwadi workers with phones and other devices to facilitate the digitisation effort, since 2018 when the app was rol...