a mukhya sevika supervises between 40 and 65 anganwadi workers, providing them with on-the-job training. mukhya sevikas' other duties include keeping track of people of lower economic status benefiting from the program, in particular the malnourished; guiding the anganwadi workers in assessing children's age and weight and plotting their weight; demonstrating effective methods of providing health and nutrition education to mothers; and maintaining statistics on anganwadis and their workers to determine what can be improved. the mukhya sevikas report to the child development projects.