Amit Shah inaugurates ‘PM Family Care Tracker’ pilot project

• Union Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the ‘PM Family Care Tracker’ pilot project in Gandhinagar on June 28.

• 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.

What is the purpose of PM Family Care Tracker?

• The digital platform would ensure that pregnant women, mothers and children receive all eligible government benefits through continuous monitoring and timely intervention.

• Integrated with birth and death registration data, the PM Family Care Tracker will provide every child with a unique ID, ensuring that the benefits of government schemes reach them automatically and in a timely manner.

• It will address the key challenges of beneficiary identification, government outreach, and the effective delivery of welfare schemes.

• The PM Family Tracker will create an integrated monitoring system, under which needy individuals will be identified and special attention will be given to them. 

• Through an integrated monitoring system, it will ensure the effective delivery of the benefits of government welfare schemes to those in need.

• By integrating the entire database and linking it with birth and death data, the task of providing every child with an ID and a unique number will be carried out through the PM Family Care Tracker. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.