Govt launches software to monitor nutrition services at AWCs

The government today launched a software for real time monitoring of nutrition services at its Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) and a Rapid Reporting System to provide public access to overall data of the Centres in a bid to combat malnutrition through technology.
The Common Application Software, developed by Bill Gates Foundation, will provide real-time information on service delivery at all Anganwadi Centres and on growth and nutrition status of children.
The software will be deployed in two applications, Anganwadi Worker Application which will run on their smart phones and Supervisor Application that will run on tablets of the Anganwadi Supervisors, to be provided to them by the government.

The software will enable AWWs to feed all nutrition- related data of children and their subsequent progress on a daily basis through smart phones which will help track their health in a more consistent and reliable manner.
This will also save their time in data entry into multiple registers that are currently complied manually.
To begin with, the system has been piloted in Loni block of Ghaziabad district in Uttar Pradesh. The new system is expected to cover 3.68 lakh AWCs in 162 high burden districts across Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharshtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and subsequently across the country.

The minister also launched Rapid Reporting System that

will provide access to state as well as Central government to data from all Anganwadis, including number of workers, children, their nutrition and health status and toilet facilities, among others.
"It is the first time since the Anganwadi has started that we are giving all access to data. Once we have a profile of each village and we find out where the malnutrition figures are, we will be able to tackle this like we tackled Beti Bachao. It was also based on data," Gandhi said.
The system will provide gender-wise and category-wise number of beneficiaries of supplementary nutrition and pre-school education, availability of infrastructure at AWCs, nutrition status of children of 0-3 years and 3-6 years separately and number of pre-school children enrolled in AWCs.

Gandhi also launched e-archive and e-learning websites, developed by the ministry in collaboration with National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), to help compile and integrate publications and resource materials from all departments of the ministry.
The e-learning website is a self-study platform where a series of e-courses developed by NIPCCD will be undertaken.