{"id":268071,"date":"2023-11-06T18:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=268071"},"modified":"2023-11-08T20:47:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T15:17:14","slug":"on-the-poshan-tracker-mother-child-and-the-poshan-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-the-poshan-tracker-mother-child-and-the-poshan-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Poshan Tracker \u2013 Mother, child and the Poshan Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/strong>This post on the Poshan Tracker has been created based on the article \u201cMother, child and the Poshan Tracker\u201d <\/strong>published in The Indian Express<\/strong> on 6th<\/sup> November 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2013 Issues relating to poverty and hunger.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News<\/strong>:\u00a0This article discusses the important features and significance of the Poshan Tracker. It also highlights challenges that will need to be tackled in order to ensure its success and suggests steps for the same.<\/p>\n

A detailed article on India\u2019s hunger situation<\/strong> can be read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is the Poshan Tracker?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The rollout of the\u00a0Poshan Tracker<\/strong> represents the largest mobile-phone nutrition monitoring system in the history of global health.<\/p>\n

The Poshan Tracker is a centralised ICT-enabled platform<\/strong>, developed to promote transparency and accountability<\/strong> of nutrition service delivery, as part of the new Poshan 2.0 guidelines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Its features include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Last-mile delivery of nutritional services<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Real-time feedback loop<\/strong> for frontline functionaries to prevent malnutrition by better identifying, targeting and monitoring of ICDS services.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    iii. Precursor for targeted investments<\/strong> in healthcare for women and children.<\/p>\n

    More on the Poshan 2.0 Scheme <\/strong>here.<\/a><\/p>\n

    What is the significance of the Poshan Tracker?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    1) Universal uptake<\/strong> \u2014 Anganwadi workers are using the app across all states and Union territories<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    2) Massive scale<\/strong> \u2014 Real-time monitoring of more than 50% children<\/strong> in the country is being undertaken. Moreover, 94% of beneficiaries have been Aadhar verified.<\/p>\n

    3) Holistic coverage<\/strong> \u2014 It captures 3 more indicators.
    \na. Anganwadi infrastructure.
    \nb. Beneficiaries of take-home rations and hot cooked meals.
    \nc. Monitoring of nutritional outcomes.<\/p>\n

    4) Highly detailed data (or Granularity): <\/strong>The granularity of Poshan Tracker data is key in addressing the huge variability in malnutrition rates estimated through household-level surveys.<\/p>\n

    5) Better utilisation: <\/strong>It makes beneficiary-wise data that is observed on the ground, available for decision-makers for local and timely action.<\/p>\n

    6) Accuracy: <\/strong>The app automatically calculates nutritional levels based on the WHO growth charts. It can reduce errors in their manual calculations.<\/p>\n

    7) Timeliness: <\/strong>It avoids paper-based reporting, enabling real-time transmission of data. For instance, it is easier to retrieve information from it as compared to bulky paper-based registers.<\/p>\n

    What are the challenges associated with the Poshan Tracker?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    1) Quality of data: <\/strong>Doubts about data quality have been identified as a major hindrance to using nutrition monitoring data for informed nutritional policies.<\/p>\n

    2) Limited Window of<\/strong> data utilisation: <\/strong>Global experience shows that decision-makers do not place a high value on data that are 3-5 years old.<\/p>\n

    What needs to be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Feedback mechanisms: <\/strong>It must be ensured that the Poshan Tracker is routinely updated<\/strong> based on the feedback of Anganwadi workers to improve user-friendliness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Skill-building and technical assistance: <\/strong>It will be needed to ensure the sustainability of this new monitoring system.<\/p>\n

    Investments in service delivery: <\/strong>Adequate investments in delivering essential services when malnutrition is detected.<\/p>\n

    Question for practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In the 2023 Global Hunger Index (GHI), India ranks a lowly\u00a0111 out of 125 countries. How can Poshan Tracker help in improving India\u2019s ranking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Source: This post on the Poshan Tracker has been created based on the article \u201cMother, child and the Poshan Tracker\u201d published in The Indian Express on 6th November 2023. UPSC Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 Social Justice \u2013 Issues relating to poverty and hunger. News:\u00a0This article discusses the important features and significance of the Poshan… Continue reading On the Poshan Tracker \u2013 Mother, child and the Poshan Tracker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500,8131],"class_list":["post-268071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","tag-social-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":72,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1699315188},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}