Vibrant Gujarat is not ahead in human development index. the state government has decided to start online monitoring of every rural family in order to find out existing lacunae obstructing in controlling high levels of infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate.
Official sources say, Gujarat’s infant mortality rate is 50 per 1,000 infants born, while the maternal mortality rate is 160 every 1 lakh pregnant mothers. Soon after the weekly Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, government spokesperson Jay Narayan Vyas said, “We believe, online monitoring will go a long way in improving the human development index, which is chief minister Narendra Modi’s main thrust in the social sector.”
The state’s online monitoring system, part of its e-Mamta project, has been jointly developed by Gujarat’s health and family welfare department and Centre’s National Rural Health Mission. The Centre’s National Informatics Centre (NIC) has developed the software. “The project has been nationally acclaimed. It is not just first in India, even in the Western countries such a project does not exist,” Mr Vyas said. “With the help of the software, data of 79.1 lakh rural families, involving 4.02 crores people will be monitored,” he said.