All Anganwadi Centres registered on Poshan Tracker application
Over
10.12 Crore Beneficiaries Registered on Poshan Tracker App
Under the 15th Finance Commission, various
components like Anganwadi services, Poshan Abhiyaan and Scheme for Adolescent
girls (of 14-18 years in Aspirational Districts and North-Eastern region) have
been subsumed under the umbrella Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0
(Mission Poshan 2.0) to address the challenge of malnutrition. It is a
Centrally Sponsored mission, where the responsibility for implementation of
various activities lies with the States and UTs. This mission is a universal
self-selecting umbrella scheme that is being implemented across the country
including in the State of Karnataka.
The beneficiaries under this mission are children in the age group of
0-6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers and Adolescent Girls between
14-18 years (North Eastern States and Aspirational Districts). Total
10,12,46,106 beneficiaries are registered on Poshan Tracker as on 28 February
2025 of which 44,38,725 beneficiaries are registered in the State of Karnataka
with 99.61% beneficiaries verified by Aadhaar in the State.
IT systems have been leveraged to strengthen and
bring about transparency in nutrition delivery support systems at the Anganwadi
centres. The ‘Poshan Tracker’ application was rolled out on 1st March 2021 as an important governance tool.
All Anganwadi Workers are provided with
smartphones. Near real time data collection for Anganwadi Services such as,
daily attendance, ECCE, Provision of Hot Cooked Meal (HCM)/Take Home Ration
(THR-not raw ration), Growth Measurement etc. has been made possible. Poshan
Tracker is available in 24 languages including Hindi and English. The Physical
Records of Growth Monitoring have been replaced by auto generated monthly
report in Poshan Tracker. These reports can be downloaded as required.
The Poshan Tracker facilitates monitoring and
tracking of al Anganwadi Centers, Anganwadi Workers and beneficiaries on
defined indicators.
All Anganwadi Centres are registered on the Poshan
Tracker application as on 28 February 2025.
UNICEF has appreciated the simplicity of Poshan
Tracker application and how it has made the work of Anganwadi Workers easier;
and ensured tracking of children and mothers on key health and nutrition
related information.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has applauded
the efforts made by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) on
Poshan Tracker mentioning the ‘Poshan Tracker’ as one of the exemplary
platforms for flawlessly collecting routine administrative data on nutrition.
During the G-20 Ministerial Conference on Women
Empowerment 2023, Poshan Tracker was also showcased and discussed. It was part
of the chair’s statement. The members recognized the importance of deployment
of technology for monitoring nutrition and health services and early childhood
care service delivery for pregnant women, lactating mothers, adolescent girls
and children and took note of the Poshan Tracker application, a unique digital
platform which seeks to digitize data near-real time monitoring and enabling
policies for targeted intervention.
This information was given by the Minister of State
for Women and Child Development Savitri Thakur in Rajya Sabha in reply to a
question today.