Mobile-Enabled Nutrition Surveillance System Launched In Meghalaya

A nutrition surveillance system to ensure that the beneficiaries in Mawphlang get the Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) was launched on Friday at Mawngap by local MLA SK Sunn.The project is the digitisation of ICDS Reporting System under the National Nutrition Mission.Meghalaya was chosen among other two states in the country to implement the initiative.
Launching the system, Sunn said the system comprises a mobile application and analytic system to monitor the growth of every eligible child, pregnant women and adolescent girls.“This is a user friendly tool for the field team and in addition, it also ensures data quality and accuracy through a GPS enabled system,” he said.
Sunn hoped that the digitisation of ICDS Reporting System under the National Nutrition Mission will address stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia and low birth weight.
It was as part of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) that a solution to combat malnutrition was initiated by the Centre with the mobile-based system that helps real time growth monitoring of every child.

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