Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will virtually distribute 1,465 smart phones to Anganwadi workers of Sehore district under the Poshan Abhiyan (nutrition campaign) from Mantralaya at 1.15 pm on Friday.
The Poshan Abhiyan is being conducted by the Women and Child Development Department from 97 thousand 135 Anganwadi and Mini Anganwadi centres approved in 453 Integrated Child Development Projects in all 52 districts of the state. Information and Communication Technology based real time monitoring is done through mobile based nutrition tracker application.
In the past, smart phones have been distributed to 27 thousand 817 Anganwadi workers of 16 districts and tablets to 972 supervisors. Smart phones are being purchased and distributed at district level to 69 thousand 316 Anganwadi workers and 2,429 supervisors of remaining 36 districts.
Daily information on services provided by Anganwadi workers in Anganwadi centres is entered using the nutrition tracker application from smart phones. Monitoring of information is done daily at block, district and state level. By using nutrition tracker on smart phone by Anganwadi workers, while the work of maintenance of registers will be reduced on a daily basis, from the same application, Anganwadi worker will get ready information regarding daily works in which they will get information about the beneficiaries to be selected during home visits for vaccination and other services and homes of which beneficiaries are to be visited to provide counseling and other information will be included.