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Nutrition Monitoring Software Can Monitor Anganwadi Staff's Work

by Adeline Dorcas on Jun 26 2018 3:00 PM

Integrated Child Development Services-Common Application Software (ICDS-CAS), a nutrition monitoring software introduced for the 'Poshan Abhiyaan' can help in monitoring Anganwadi staff's work.

Nutrition Monitoring Software Can Monitor Anganwadi Staff`s Work
Integrated Child Development Services-Common Application Software (ICDS-CAS), a nutrition monitoring software introduced for the 'Poshan Abhiyaan' nutrition scheme can help to track proper functioning of Anganwadi workers.
"We found that //the Anganwadi centers do not remain open all the days and with this software, we can keep a track on the functioning of the centers. It is a more systematic pattern and has brought in changes in the operation of the scheme," said Women and Child Development Secretary Rakesh Srivastava.

Smartphones with the ICDS-CAS software, provided to the Anganwadi workers and lady supervisors, will ensure assigned service delivery and prompts for intervention, he said.

"This data is then made available in near real-time supervisory staff from sector, block, district, state to the national level through a dashboard for monitoring," he added.

According to the ministry, 95 lakh plus have been registered as beneficiaries under the scheme which is functioning in 57 districts of seven states - Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

The 'Poshan Abhiyaan' primarily aims to bring down stunting of the children in the age group of 0-6 years from 38.4 percent to 25 percent by the year 2022. All 36 states and union territories, and 718 districts will be covered in a phased manner by 2020.

The ministry will also organize a seminar on the use of technology for steering the programme.

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Source-IANS


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