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Add to Preferred SourcesCrediting technology with building accountability and enhancing transparency, the government said its use has helped identify around 12,000 children in the age group of 0-6 who were found to be in the range of malnourished to undernourished and in need of special dietary care across anganwadis in 77 districts of the country.
“The system of feeding the children under the anganwadi system was an area ridden with leakages and siphoning. The ministry has inducted massive use of technology for real time monitoring so that these leakages can be removed,” a statement issued by the minister for women and child development, Maneka Gandhi, said.
“As a first step, staff at 50,000 anganwadis across 77 districts in eight states have been enabled to use smart phones for Aadhar based registration, daily attendance, record of feeding, record of health etc. The system generates alerts for non-attendance and malnutrition. This has not only eliminated ghost beneficiaries but also removed the corrupt practices. This is a revolutionary step,” the WCD minister said.
The minister pointed out that the recording and reporting of infromation on children found to be of low weight and height has helped identify around 12,000 children in these districts who need special care. Marking the “Anti Black Money Day”, Maneka shared details of how her ministry has been working to crackdown on corruption and bring in transparency.
“All the schemes have been put under the DBT System which is Aadhar seeded. This is one of the largest DBT systems of the Government of India today.”
The ministry is currently operating 14 different schemes where funds/ services are given to individuals as well as institutional beneficiaries.
“The ministry was also the first to get on board the Public Finances Management System completely. This not only enables all funds to be transferred directly to the target bank accounts but also monitor the utilisation of these funds centrally”, Maneka said.
She also shard that in order to streamline the process of receipt of proposals as well as disbursal of funds, the ministry has created an NGO portal and each and every NGO has to apply only through this portal. This portal is also linked to the Darpan portal of Niti Aayog.
Original source: Times of India.
Published on 9 November 2017