ANM Nurse Salary in West Bengal Govt. 2024, Per Month

What is the salary of ANM nurses in West Bengal? How much salary do ANM nurses get every month? What is the salary of the first ANM?

——-All of these questions answer are given in this article.

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ANM nurses belong to the health & family welfare department and the designation of ANM nurses is health assistant (female), the scale or level is 6, the group is C and the cadre is others (nursing).

ANM Nurses Salary

Nurse:	ANM
State:	West Bengal
Department:	Health & Family Welfare
Designation:	Health Assistant (Female)
Cadre:	Others (Nursing)
Scale or level:	6
Group:	C

ANM Nursing Salary in West Bengal Government

ANM Nursing Salary	West Bengal Government
Basic Pay	22700 Rs.
DA	681 Rs.
HRA	2724 Rs.
MA	500 Rs.
OthA	385 Rs.
Grand Total	26990 Rs.
Deduction	156 Rs.
Net Pay	26,834.00 (Twenty Six Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty-Four only)

ANM nurses get BP (basic pay) of ₹22,700, Dearness Allowance is 681 which gets 3% on basic pay, HRA i.e. House Rent Allowance gets 2724 rupees which is 12% on basic pay, Medical Allowance (MA) gets 500 rupees and other allowance gets 385 rupees.

By adding all these, the total is ₹26,990. ANM nurses get a net pay of ₹26,834 after deducting 156 rupees.

Another great benefit is that ANM nurses get a 3% implementation on basic pay every year.

About ANM Nurses

In the health care of rural areas, ANM nurses wear pink sarees and provide pregnancy-related health advice at home. To become an ANM nurse, one must do a two-year diploma course in West Bengal government ANM nursing colleges.

Only women from rural areas can do this course but one of the main conditions for doing the course is to get 40% marks in the (10+2) examination and the student must be a resident of rural areas of West Bengal.

What does an ANM nurse do?

The role of ANM nurses in rural areas is immense. ANM nurses perform health checkups on mothers from conception to delivery. All the supplements, injections and polio required for children till the age of 15 years are done by ANM nurses with great care.

Let’s try to understand the work of ANM nurses through two steps. The first step is to serve pregnant women and the second step is to take care of small children. Now let’s try to know the work of these two steps in detail.

The main job of ANM nurses is to look after pregnant women, take care of them and give pregnancy-related health advice. To inform a woman about the proper process from the time of her pregnancy to the delivery of the baby.

ANM nurses make mothers MCP cards ie Mother and Child Protection Cards, then perform four check-ups on pregnant women in nine months. If any women are sick, they are given the necessary health care.

Immunization of children from zero to five years of age is done by these ANM nurses. The second step is to work on childhood and adolescence. Provide supplements to children during adulation.

Among the various tasks of these ANM nurses, one of the important tasks is to inform the families about family planning, and the prevention of communicable diseases. Communicable diseases mean that all diseases are communicable and these diseases spread to the human body through sneezing and coughing. ANM nurses develop an immune system against all these diseases.

To make the public aware of non-communicable diseases and to develop preventive measures. Non-communicable diseases mean that are not communicable such as diabetes, high blood pressure etc.

ANM nurses collect data on how many people have these diseases. ANMs have to work six days a week (Monday to Friday). From nine in the morning to three in the afternoon. Job postings are far away in the initial days of ANM nurses. After two to three years they get a job post in the area near their home.