Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will virtually distribute smartphones to 1415 Anganwadi workers and 50 supervisors of Sehore district during the Poshan Abhiyan at 10 am on January 25. 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, smartphones have been distributed to 27 thousand 817 Anganwadi workers of 16 districts and tablets to 972 supervisors. Smartphones are being purchased and distributed from district levels to 69 thousand 316 Anganwadi workers and 2,429 supervisors of the remaining 36 districts.
Daily information on services provided by Anganwadi workers at Anganwadi centres is entered using the nutrition tracker application from the smartphone. Monitoring of information is done daily at block, district and state level. With the use of the nutrition tracker on the smartphone by the Anganwadi workers, where the work of maintaining the registers will be less, through the same application, the Anganwadi workers will get ready information regarding the daily tasks about which beneficiaries have to be chosen for making home visits for vaccination and other services and which beneficiaries they have to counsel by visiting their homes.
Through the nutrition tracker, Anganwadi workers can see the list of all the beneficiaries registered in the Anganwadi centre on their mobile anywhere at any time, which will make it easy to monitor the beneficiaries.
Along with this, the growth monitoring of children in the age group of 0 to 5 years registered in the Anganwadi centre will also be easy. The level of malnutrition of the child will be reflected immediately after the Anganwadi worker records the weight and height of the children.
Now Anganwadi worker will not have to fill the growth register. On registering a pregnant woman with a nutrition tracker, this information will also be available to the Anganwadi worker about which pregnant woman has to be checked daily or which pregnant woman has to be counselled through home visit.
Rs. 200 per month is being paid to all the Anganwadi workers of the entire state for the net connectivity for the operation of the nutrition tracker application. An amount of Rs.500 will be given to Anganwadi workers and Rs.250 to Anganwadi assistants as incentive on filling the information according to the prescribed parameters in the nutrition tracker application.