About the Client
The Digital India Corporation (DIC), operating under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), drives the management and implementation of e-Governance initiatives across central and state levels. It develops digital solutions addressing both urban and rural needs.
Business Situation and Requirements
The legacy Poshan Tracker system, while effective at scale, needed upgrades to support operations nationwide. However, users often faced performance slowdowns, connectivity issues in remote areas, and limited offline capabilities. Additionally, data entry flexibility, regional language support, and Aadhaar-based e-KYC workflows required improvement.
To address these challenges, DIC partnered with Unthinkable to migrate and modernize the Poshan Tracker. The goal was to build a scalable, stable, and reliable platform that could streamline data collection, monitoring, and reporting across thousands of Anganwadi Centres. As a result, the upgraded solution provides real-time insights, improves accessibility, and enables better decision-making, ultimately enhancing maternal and child health outcomes.
Their key requirements include:
Enhanced System Stability & Performance: Optimize the app to support lakhs of AWWs. This ensures smooth use without slowdowns or crashes.
Scalable Beneficiary Management: Track and manage crores of beneficiaries across all Anganwadi Centres efficiently.
Offline & Low-Connectivity Support: Capture data smoothly in remote areas. Then, sync automatically when the internet is restored.
Mobile-First, User-Centric Interface: Provide an intuitive interface with regional language support. This improves usability for frontline workers.
Secure & Seamless Authentication: Streamline login and Aadhaar e-KYC to protect sensitive data. As a result, access is secure and error-free.
Advanced Monitoring & Reporting: Deliver real-time dashboards, heatmaps, and trend analysis. This helps authorities make informed program decisions.
Solution
To improve maternal and child health across the country, the Digital India Corporation (DIC) worked with Unthinkable to update and modernize the Poshan Tracker. This upgrade fixed performance, accessibility, and scalability issues.
In addition, the new features make life easier for Anganwadi Workers (AWWs), administrators, and beneficiaries. As a result, the Poshan Tracker now runs smoothly, is easy to use, and helps track health data more effectively.
Some of the key aspects of the application that we transformed included:
Cloud Infrastructure for Enhanced Accessibility
- AWS Cloud Migration: Replaced the old on-premise setup, enhancing system reliability.
- Moreover, Reduced Downtime & Costs: Lowered downtime and high expenses, while resolving scalability limits.
- Secure Nationwide Access: Enables thousands of Anganwadi Centres and millions of beneficiaries to connect reliably.
- Fast Data Transfers: Large-volume data moves quickly and without errors, ensuring a smooth nationwide rollout.
Comprehensive Health & Nutrition Monitoring
- Comprehensive Health Tracking: Enables AWWs to monitor height, weight, stunting, malnutrition, and disease indicators.
- Targeted Nutrition Programs: Support allocation of THR and HCM according to each beneficiary’s needs.
- Growth Monitoring & Evaluation: Charts progress over time, allowing authorities to assess program effectiveness and overall health outcomes.
Pregnancy & Child Growth Tracking
- Pregnancy Monitoring: Tracks gestational weight gain, prenatal visits, and developmental milestones visually.
- Child Growth Tracking: Displays children’s growth using intuitive, color-coded charts for easy understanding.
- Automated Alerts: Notify AWWs of deviations, ensuring timely interventions and support for beneficiaries.
Interactive Dashboards, Reporting & Analytics
- Nationwide & State Dashboards: Offer bar charts, comparative visuals, drill-down analytics, and trend tracking, helping authorities quickly understand performance across regions.
- Actionable Insights: Clearly highlight service gaps, program impact, and opportunities for improvement, allowing teams to make informed decisions.
- Customizable Reporting: Generates daily, monthly, and quarterly reports, enabling optimized resource allocation and continuous monitoring of efficiency and outcomes.
Mobile-First, User-Centric Design
- Field Data Entry: Allows AWWs to input data directly from the field, improving accuracy and timeliness.
- Intuitive & Fast Interface: Delivers smooth performance with minimal latency for both workers and administrators.
- Offline & Local Language Support: Ensures the platform works across rural and remote areas, even without internet connectivity.
Digital Inventory & Resource Management
- Digitized Inventory Management: Provides real-time visibility of stock levels, usage patterns, and expiry dates, enhancing overall control.
- Automated Reorder Alerts: Prevent stockouts and efficiently minimize waste.
- Supply Chain Integration: Ensures end-to-end transparency and supports smooth operational efficiency.
Community & Social Data Collection
- Family Survey Module: Allows AWWs to collect demographic and socioeconomic data during home visits, ensuring accurate and complete records.
- Actionable Analytics: Generates insights to effectively design targeted health and nutrition interventions for the community.
Heatmap & Trend Analysis
- Regional Performance Heatmap: Visualizes attendance, service delivery, and resource distribution, giving administrators a clear overview.
- Trend Analysis & Insights: Highlight seasonal variations and pinpoint areas needing extra support for better planning.
Referral & Care Coordination
- Referral Management: Tracks referrals between Anganwadi Centres and healthcare facilities, ensuring smooth coordination.
- Real-Time Notifications & History: Enable timely follow-ups while keeping a central record, ensuring consistent beneficiary care.
Optimised Grievance Redressal
- Grievance Submission: Lets users submit tickets via mobile or web, ensuring quick and easy reporting.
- Moreover, Trackable Escalations: Monitor every stage, improving accountability, responsiveness, and user satisfaction.
Impact
The Poshan Tracker application made it easier to monitor nutrition services across 13.9 lakh Anganwadi centers. By digitizing records, Anganwadi workers could capture and update data for over 10.12 crore beneficiaries directly through a mobile app.
As a result, paperwork was reduced, and data collection became faster and more accurate.
Moreover, real-time dashboards gave supervisors and officials a clear view of nutrition delivery, child growth data, and beneficiary coverage. This improved transparency and helped teams quickly identify gaps in services.
As a result, decision-makers could use reliable data to strengthen nutrition programs and improve support for pregnant women, mothers, and young children.
1.34
million workers onboarded
100M+
beneficiaries served
1.39
million Anganwadi Centres
