Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana

What is Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana?

Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana is a nutrition scheme launched in Chhattisgarh for one of the state's most vulnerable communities. According to a Chhattisgarh Public Relations Department release, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai launched the scheme on 9 December 2024 at a programme at the PG College ground in Ambikapur, Surguja district, on the same day that he inaugurated and laid foundations for 1,614 development and construction works worth Rs 536.14 crore.

The department states the purpose plainly: the scheme was launched with the objective of making additional nutritious food available to pregnant women and nursing mothers of the Pahari Korwa particularly vulnerable tribal group in Surguja district. The release adds that the Surguja district administration has started this scheme as a pilot project, and that it will help reduce maternal mortality and infant mortality in the Pahari Korwa community.

The name is sometimes transliterated as CM Anna Kosh Yojana or Chief Minister Anna Fund Scheme in English-language coverage of the launch.

Why the Pahari Korwa community?

The Pahari Korwa are recognised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG). Households live in scattered, remote hamlets in the Surguja division, often far from a health centre or a market. In such settings, undernutrition during pregnancy and in the first years of life is the single largest driver of both maternal and infant deaths, which is exactly the outcome the district administration set out to change.

Chhattisgarh has separately built policy around PVTGs: the state budget carries Rs 500 crore for road construction and Rs 200 crore for housing under the Pradhan Mantri Janman Yojana for particularly vulnerable tribes, and a residential school for PVTG children in Korba district. Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana is the nutrition piece of that wider effort, delivered at district level.

Who is eligible for Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana, and who is not eligible?

A woman is covered if:

• She belongs to the Pahari Korwa particularly vulnerable tribal group.
• She is pregnant or lactating, and her infant is within the age covered by the anganwadi nutrition system.
• She lives in Surguja district, where the pilot is being run.
• She is registered with the local anganwadi centre or health sub-centre.

A household is not eligible if:

• It lives outside Surguja district. No statewide rollout has been announced on an official Chhattisgarh source.
• It is not from the Pahari Korwa community. Other tribal and non-tribal families remain covered by the regular supplementary nutrition programme at anganwadi centres, and by the state's public distribution system.
• The woman is neither pregnant nor lactating.

How to apply for Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana

1. Register the pregnancy at the anganwadi centre in your habitation. The anganwadi worker maintains the register from which nutrition entitlements flow.
2. Register at the health sub-centre with the ANM, so that antenatal check-ups and the nutrition record match.
3. Ask the mitanin or anganwadi worker to add the name to the Pahari Korwa beneficiary list for the scheme if a household has been missed during a survey round.
4. Collect the supplementary nutrition from the anganwadi centre on the days the worker announces. The scheme carries no charge to the family.
5. Escalate to the sector supervisor or the block Women and Child Development Project Officer if the name is on the list but the food is not reaching the household.

There is deliberately no online form. In scattered PVTG hamlets, a self-application model would exclude precisely the households the scheme exists to reach, so identification is done by frontline workers on the ground.

What the official record does and does not say

This is a small, district-level pilot, and the published material is limited. To be accurate rather than complete-looking, here is the split:

Confirmed by the Chhattisgarh Public Relations Department:

• Launch date: 9 December 2024, at Ambikapur, by the Chief Minister.
• Implementing body: Surguja district administration, as a pilot project.
• Target group: pregnant and nursing mothers of the Pahari Korwa PVTG.
• Benefit type: additional nutritious food.
• Objective: reducing maternal and infant mortality in that community.

Not published on any Chhattisgarh government source found in this check:

• The quantity of food or its cash value per beneficiary per month.
• The budget provision for the scheme.
• The number of beneficiaries covered so far.
• A dedicated portal, application form or helpline number for the scheme.
• Any decision to extend the scheme beyond Surguja district.

Several unofficial scheme websites carry a document checklist and an eligibility list for this scheme. Those details could not be traced to a state source and are therefore not reproduced here as fact.

Where to ask questions

• Anganwadi centre and mitanin in your own habitation — the first and most useful point of contact.
• Block-level Women and Child Development Project Officer, Surguja district.
• District Programme Officer, Women and Child Development, Surguja, at the collectorate.
• Surguja district portal: surguja.gov.in, for collectorate contact details and district notices.
• CM Helpline, which the Chhattisgarh government uses to route unresolved citizen complaints about scheme benefits.

A note for readers searching from other districts: if you are looking for foodgrain support in Chhattisgarh generally, the relevant scheme is the state's public distribution system through the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department, not Mukhyamantri Ann Kosh Yojana, which remains a Surguja nutrition pilot for one particularly vulnerable tribal group.