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West Godavari selected for Centre’s pilot project
She was speaking at the special orientation programme on ICDS Systems: Strengthening and Nutrition, held on Saturday. Jayalakshmi said the Centre has selected 11,000 Anganwadi centres in five districts in the country for the pilot project.
Eluru: The Centre has selected West Godavari along with four other districts for implementing the ‘Mother and Child care’ project on a pilot basis, said Andhra Pradesh Women and Child Welfare secretary G Jayalakshmi. She asked the district administration to implement the project in an exemplary manner.
She was speaking at the special orientation programme on ICDS Systems: Strengthening and Nutrition, held on Saturday. Jayalakshmi said the Centre has selected 11,000 Anganwadi centres in five districts in the country for the pilot project.
She said that officials would have to codify related information from the ‘smart pulse survey’ which would be completed soon and added that 98 percent of Aadhar seeding has been completed in the district.
Orientation programmes will be taken up and 55,000 tabs have been kept ready for the pilot project, she said. In order to reduce the mortality rate of mothers and children, the government has decided to go in for a special App and transfer the activities and database of medical services; nutrition and food supply to postpartum and neonatal children, online, rather than maintain manual registers. The government has already prepared a report in this regard; she said and asked consultants to take the proposed changes into consideration.
District collector K Bhaskar said it was a welcome move to select West Godavari district for the project and expressed confidence that the project would be completed within 60 days. He said that the online services extended all over the district will prove to be useful for the pilot project’s success.
The Collector said a digital literacy programme for four lakh women would be implemented in the district. The ‘Women and Child Welfare’ Special commissioner Chakravarthy, Central Government officials Dharmapal, Musharaff Farooq, Kulvanth Singh, Yashpal, State Medical and Health Deputy Director Rajashekhar Reddy, Central Health ministry Deputy Director Sanjeev Kumar.
ICDS Project Director (New Delhi) Suresh Kumar, Information Technology Experts Ratnakar, Anush Gupta and Nutrition Consultants Srilakshmi, Srikanth and others explained the pilot project to the officials through a power point presentation.
Women and Child welfare Regional Joint Director R Suez, ICDS Project Director ChandrashekharRao, District Immunization officer Mohan Krishna and others participated in the orientation programme.
