National Award for e-Governance 2024 to Ministry of Women and Child Development

Why in the news

• Recently the Ministry of Women and Child Development received the National Award for e-Governance 2024 (Gold) for the Poshan Tracker initiative
• This award has been given to the Poshan Tracker initiative for redesigning and digital transformation of government processes.

Poshan Tracker

• Poshan Tracker App was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD).
• Poshan Tracker App provides complete beneficiary management of Anganwadi Centre (Child Care Centre) activities, service delivery of Anganwadi workers and pregnant women, lactating mothers and children below six years of age.
• Technology is used to dynamically identify stunting, wasting, underweight children and delivery of nutrition service.
• It ensures a healthy future for children with real-time monitoring and assessment of children’s nutritional development.
• It is a key and beneficiary centric service delivery application under Poshan Abhiyaan which encourages analysis with real-time visibility.
• It enables tracking and monitoring of all Anganwadi workers as well as beneficiaries.