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Main purpose of this paper is to study the problems of Anganwadi Workers on various Government Scheme. Method use in this paper Anganwadi centres were selected by stratified sampling technique. Out of 678 Anganwadi centre select 150 in survey of four taluka out of eleven taluka in Uttar Kannada District. The function of this paper is interviewing Anganwadi workers for their literacy status, years of experience, their knowledge about the services rendered by them and problems faced by them. Result in this paper is most of AWWs were from the group of between 20-25 years; half of them were matriculate and 52.34% workers had an experience of more than 5 yrs. Majority of AWWs had a knowledge assessment score of above 55.46%. They had best knowledge about nutrition and health education. 20.31% of the AWWs workers were complained of inadequate honorarium, lack of help from community and other problems were infrastructure related supply and more work overload and record maintenance. Conclusions in this paper is Majority of AWWs were beyond 35 years of age, matriculate, experienced, having more than knowledge related to their job etc. Complaints mentioned by them were honorarium related and more workload less salary etc.