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Mobiles to monitor govt food programme by Himanshi Dhawan


The government intends to give the oldest child welfare programme a fresh lease of life through new technology. It proposes to use mobile phones to monitor its food programme directed at children between the years of 0-6.

The ministry of women and child development (WCD) will use mobile phones to monitor the integrated child development scheme (ICDS) and spread awareness on nutrition and sanitation. The issue will be discussed in the state ministers' meeting on Friday.

ICDS provides children, pregnant women and lactating mothers with supplementary nutrition. Commenting on the scheme, WCD minister Krishna Tirath said, "We intend to use new technology like mobile phones as part of a larger strategy to focus on nutrition. Mobiles will be used to monitor ICDS services and spread awareness on the issue."

The move comes after the Nutrition Council, headed by the PM, in a meeting in November last year stressed on the need for restructuring and strengthening of the food programme with special attention to children under 2.

Mobile phones will be put to use in some anganwadis on a pilot basis for collecting and collating information on ICDS. It is aimed at establishing effective communication with anganwadi centres and monitoring the regularity of functioning, feeding and to get regular information on key indicators.

To support the information coming from various centres, the ministry will set up a nutrition resource platform which will serve as a digital resource on nutrition including information dissemination and as an interactive forum for idea exchange. The nodal centre will also have facilities for Interactive Voice Response system-based data. The model is already being used in UP by civil society with some degree of success.