Bihar CM hikes stipend for anganwadi workers and helpers

In one more populist transfer forward of the meeting polls, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday (September 8, 2025) introduced a hike within the stipend given to anganwadi employees and helpers within the State.

In a submit on X, Mr. Kumar stated anganwadi employees (sevika) will now get ₹9,000, up from ₹7,000 they’d been receiving to this point.

Equally, the stipend for helpers (sahayika) has been hiked from ₹4,000 to ₹4,500, the CM stated, including “directions have been issued to the division involved”.

Mr. Kumar hailed the “huge position” performed by anganwadi sevikas and sahayikas in “enhancing the nourishment and general wellbeing of kids and pregnant girls”.

“Since we got here to energy in November 2005, numerous schemes have been launched for the welfare of kids and pregnant girls. Recognising the position performed by anganwadis within the implementation of those measures, we have now determined to incentivise them”, the JD(U) president added.

Over the previous few years, the NDA authorities within the state has introduced a plethora of sops, which embrace 125 items of free electrical energy, hike in social safety pension and waiver of charges levied on kinds to be crammed up for showing in aggressive examinations.

Chief of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav has been indignant over alleged “copying” by the federal government of the concepts he has been floating and vowed to placed on maintain additional electoral guarantees until the meeting elections are introduced and the mannequin code of conduct comes into pressure.

In line with sources within the State authorities, there are greater than 1.20 lakh anganwadi employees and helpers in Bihar who stand to learn from the hike in stipends.