Mokokchung, March 16 (MTNews): Under POSHAN Abhiyaan, Anganwadi workers (AWWs) have been technologically empowered with the provision of smartphones for efficient service delivery and monitoring. Accordingly, Nagaland state has procured 4409 smartphones for the purpose under the scheme.

 

The mobile application of POSHAN Abhiyaan digitizes physical registers used by Anganwadi workers. This improves the quality of their work while simultaneously allowing them real-time monitoring. A total of 11.03 lakh Smartphones have been procured by States/UTs. This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

 

She also said that the Anganwadi Workers periodically measure height and weight of children up to the age of 6 years and upload in POSHAN Tracker. She also said that, to promote regular growth monitoring of children up to 6 years, Anganwadi Workers are being incentivized.

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