1. Key Focus Areas:

• Empowerment through access: Emphasis on rights, services, and opportunities through digital access.
  
  
• Shift from traditional welfare models to tech-enabled governance.
  
  
• Real-time tracking, data-driven interventions, and tech-based grievance redressal systems.
  
  

2. Major Tech-Enabled Initiatives:

🔹 Saksham Anganwadi Initiative:

• Upgrades over 14 lakh Anganwadis using smartphones, IT devices.
  
  
• Enhanced real-time data entry, service delivery via Poshan Tracker.
  
  

🔹 Poshan Tracker:

• Provides real-time data on nutrition services.
  
  
• Linked to Poshan Abhiyan, bridges service delivery gap.
  
  
• Recognized under PM’s Award for Excellence.
  
  

🔹 PMPMVY (Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana):

• Digitally enabled maternity benefit scheme.
  
  
• Aadhaar-based authentication.
  
  
• Over 4 crore women beneficiaries served.
  
  

🔹 Mission Shakti & Shakti Sadan:

• Tech platforms to track complaints.
  
  
• Online redressal for harassment cases under POCSO Act, Dowry Prohibition Act, etc.
  
  
• Grievance modules improve transparency and support.
  
  

🔹 Digital Public Goods:

• CIDR, CARINGS, and TrackChild portals support adoption, foster care, and missing children tracing.
  
  

3. Outcomes and Impact:

• Reduced malnutrition and improved early childhood development outcomes.
  
  
• Faster grievance redressal and case tracking in gender-based violence cases.
  
  
• Lower maternal and infant mortality rates (IMR dropped to 130 per 1,000 live births; MMR improved).
  
  
• Improved governance, trust, and accountability.
  
  

 UPSC MAINS-STYLE QUESTIONS

🔷 10-Mark Questions (150 words):

Q1. Discuss the role of technology in improving delivery mechanisms in women and child welfare schemes in India.