Gandhinagar, Jun 28 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched the pilot project of the PM-Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT) here and said the integrated digital platform would ensure no beneficiary of the Centre’s welfare schemes related to women and children is left out.
The digital platform would ensure that pregnant women, mothers and children receive all eligible government benefits through continuous monitoring and timely intervention, he said.
Addressing a gathering on the occasion, the Lok Sabha MP from Gandhinagar noted the initiative was the next step in Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s welfare model, which, he claimed, had transformed service delivery after 2014 by ensuring benefits reached intended beneficiaries directly.
Shah said the Modi government had, over the past 12 years, sought to improve the lives of 70 crore poor people by providing houses, electricity, toilets, piped drinking water, LPG connections, free foodgrains, health insurance of up to Rs 5 lakh and affordable medicines.
The PM-Family Care Tracker would build on these welfare measures by ensuring that no eligible child or mother was left out of government schemes because of administrative gaps, the Union minister stated.
The PM-FCT has been developed as an integrated digital platform for the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency by converging data from existing systems such as ICDS, Reproductive and Child Health (RCH), Poshan Abhiyaan and school health programmes.
According to an official release, the platform will use the Birth Registration Number (BRN) as the common unique identifier to integrate databases maintained by the Health Department’s TeCHO+ system, the Women and Child Development Department’s Poshan Tracker and the Education Department’s Child Tracking System (CTS).
The digital platform will track the health, nutrition and education of beneficiaries from pregnancy until the age of 18 by integrating nearly 16 welfare schemes across health, nutrition, education and social welfare departments, Shah highlighted.
“If a child misses polio vaccination, the system will immediately generate an alert for health officials. If a girl studies till Class 3, but fails to enrol in Class 4, her case will be flagged and the school authorities, local officials and public representatives will be alerted for a follow-up action,” he explained.
Children found to be underweight, stunted or requiring special care would be identified early so that targeted interventions could be made, while the system would comprehensively track maternal health from pregnancy through the breastfeeding period, Shah said.
The integrated platform covers a host of schemes, including Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, Janani Suraksha Yojana, Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, PM Poshan, Mission Vatsalya, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, PM CARES for Children and the National Child Labour Project.
The project includes key performance indicators to monitor maternal health, child vaccination, malnutrition, school enrolment and dropout rates, adolescent girls’ health, educational performance and integration of beneficiary records across departments, said the release.
The platform incorporates an automated alert mechanism that escalates cases requiring intervention to officials at the taluka, district or state level and tracks compliance until action is completed.
The pilot project will initially be implemented in Shah’s Lok Sabha constituency of Gandhinagar and, if successful, is proposed to be expanded across Gujarat and later replicated in other states, officials said. PTI PJT RSY
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