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CSI Nihilent e-Governance National Award to GIS based Nutrition Surveillance System in Dhalai district
Abhishek Singh IAS
CSI Nihilent e-Governance National Award to GIS based Nutrition Surveillance System in Dhalai district
PHOTO : NIC Dhalai

Dhalai Nutrition Surveillance System, a GIS based e-Governance initiative to track malnutrition in the ICDS centers in Dhalai district has won CSI-Nihilent national award for e-Governance. The project was launched by the Chief Secretary, Government of Tripura in April, 2012. The district was chosen after the scrutiny of the project details, field visit by the representatives of CSI-Nihilent award team and final presentation at Hyderabad on 8th November'13 to the selection committee comprising Senior IAS officials, members of Knowledge Commission and National Advisory Council and eminent personalities from IT sector. The award would be presented on 14th December'13 at Vishashapatnam. The team of officials nominated for the awards were Abhishek Singh, DM & Collector, Dhalai, Shri Arun Debbarma, DISE, DLI and Shri Sushant Debnath, DIO, DLI.

 Invitation to the presentation of 

 

CSI Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2012-13

To
Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS,
District Magistrate and Collector,
District Administration, Ambassa,
Tripura.

 

Dear Shri Abhishek Singh, IAS

   
Congratulations.

We are delighted and privileged to inform you that your nomination as detailed hereunder has been selected for CSI Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2012-13.

       Title of Nomination   : Dhalai Nutrition Surveillance System

The awards will be presented at the ceremony scheduled on Saturday, 14th Dec 2013 from 1600 to 1800 hrs at Hotel Novotel, Vishakapatnam as part of 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India (CSI-2013).

As part of CSI Annual convention a parallel track on e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Summit [KSS-2013] is also planned from 0930-1530hrs on the same day, Saturday, 14th Dec 2013.

Convention Committee will provide ONE COMPLEMENTARY REGISTRATION to one of your team members for receiving the award. The details of the conference can be had from www.csi-2013.org 

For attending the awards ceremony and CSI Annual Convention, you are requested to make your own travel & stay arrangements at Vishakapatnam.

We thank you for your nomination and presentation to Selection Committee at Hyderabad. We also put on record, our appreciation to your field staff, who were very enthusiastic in showcasing their achievements. We are also happy to inform you that your nomination will be published in the special book being released during the awards ceremony.

Congratulations once again and wish you and your organization many such laurels in future.

Looking forward to seeing you at Vishakhapatnam and your continued support for this prestigious CSI endeavor, we remain

 

Sincerely

 

Harish P. Iyer& Mrs.Ayaluri Sridevi

Joint Conveners

CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards 2012-13

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A brief note on GIS based Nutrition Surveillance System in Dhalai district

Introduction

Persisting malnutrition among children is one of the major challenges in human development in the entire country.  40.4% of the children of the country in the age group 0 to 3 years were underweight as compared to 35.2% children of the same age group of Tripura as per NFHS III.  It is estimated that 50% of death of children in the country is related to malnutrition and economic and social loss due to malnutrition is huge yet less perceived.  The ICDS Programme, running for more than 35 years, has been able to address the issue only partly and there is need to take appropriate measures in fighting malnutrition in all the states.

The current system of information management under the ICDS is designed to suit generating macro level statistics for the project, district, state or the country as a whole.  But the data always move from ICDS centre to the central government via each level of hierarchy and there is no system of giving feedback downward up to the facility level so that the functionaries concerned know the failures in specific terms and in comparison to others about their progress and what could be a benchmark to judge their performance.  Moreover while compiling the data of AWC all child specific data is lost by clubbing child specific data in to one group data and subsequently even age and gender wise data are also lost by clubbing those to form group statistics of higher level aggregates.  That helps to appreciate overall macro situation at higher levels but does not guide any child specific or AWC specific interventions.  The growth of every child has to be compared across time which is theoretically possible since the raw data is available in the AWC but comparison of month wise data from hard copies over month(s) for many children and making timely interventions becomes almost impossible and is also not carried out for that reason.  Also, since there is no AWC-wise and local government-wise compilation and no feedback is given to the community or the local government on nutrition status of their children they remain unaware of the poor nutrition status.  

GIS Based Nutrition Monitoring System

government for getting an aggregated view of implementation of the programme related to its jurisdiction without losing any information during compilation, as is the case now.  Thus performance from AWC upwards may be easily compiled in respect of all the important indicators for which data is captured at the AWC.  Spatial analysis of performance which will be shown in a map of the district/ block will be possible for better appreciation of performance across different areas and to know which AWC or which area is performing better or failing in a particular respect.  The GIS is web-enabled which allows anyone having access to internet to visualize the performance for every ICDS centre in a map of the district/block showing locations of the ICDS centres. This makes comparison of performance of various AWCs, Sectors, and Projects quite easy and visible to all.  The system is especially convenient for the supervising officials for better monitoring of the programme and in providing them a scientific decision support system.  The functionaries below may be given feedback about certain failures for specific interventions and another important feature is that performance may be compiled for each sector to judge the performance of the Supervisor, which is not done now and to give her/him specific feedback for improvement.  Similarly performance may also be compiled local government (Gram Panchayat/Municipality) wise, which will make those bodies to appreciate malnutrition status in respect of their areas and will facilitate their interventions appropriately. 

 The System:

 

     

                                           Process of Data transmission

 

                                                           Analysis through GIS:

1.      Anganwadi Centres having Severe Malnutrition Children more than 1%:

 

2.     Time series analysis on Severe Malnutrition Children > 1%

 

 

Dashboard for identifying Non-reporting Anganwadi Centres:

 

Automatic generation of GoI Format-I & II:

 

 

Individual Website for all CDPOs and DPO:

 

Remedial steps in real time:

The analysis through GIS provides the issues to be addressed in real time and accordingly remedial action is taken immediately. It eliminates any delay that may result in to adverse circumstance or loss of life. It also helps in record keeping, storage & retrieval at a later stage.

 

The GIS based Nutrition Surveillance System was launched in Dhalai district in April’12 by the Chief Secretary, Government of Tripura. Initially the back-end activities were taken first before actual implementation of project. These activities as well as the 1st phase of training were completed by September’12. The real time data is being entered since September’12 for all 6 nos. of ICDS projects of Dhalai.

The project has been able to bridge the critical gap under ICDS with respect to real time reporting, introducing feedback mechanism, taking up corrective activities in time and time, location based analysis of the data compiled to give better picture.

 

 

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