Shillong, June 3: Use of technology in flagship programmes has enhanced their implementation, one of them being the Mother App which was instrumental in reducing maternal mortality rate in Meghalaya.
Informing this, chief minister Conrad K Sangma on Tuesday said “Using this technology and through the other programmes of the state government for safe motherhood we have been able to reduce the maternal mortality rate by 45%.”
“The mobile device that are being given to you today can save and change hundreds of lives,” he said while addressing a programme of Social Welfare department for a number of interventions, including distribution of mobile phones to anganwadi workers.
He urged the anganwadi workers to make the best use of the mobile devices in uploading data for effective implementation, planning and execution of policies and programmes.
“The information that you will send to us will help us to intervene, make decisions and take actions that will save and change a children’s lives,” he added.
The other activities that took place during the programme include Certificates to Women in Need of Care & Protection-Trades-trained for self-employment, Shillong and Jowai; IIT Innovative EcoH20 Filters to Anganwadi Centres for safe drinking water for children; Cheques to new CM Care beneficiaries; Felicitation of Achievers from Children’s Homes; Unveiling of Foundation Stone for construction of Children’s Home (Boys) Nongstoin; and Unveiling of Foundation Stone and handing over of cheque for One Stop Centre at Ganesh Das Hospital premises, Shillong for abused and battered women.
The chief minister further said technology is not only changing governance but creating a more impactful governance helping to achieve goals and targets more efficiently.
The social welfare department is trying to touch different lives in society and announced a program in the pipeline, CM Care +, that would help different patients from economically weak families to meet their treatment needs for critical illnesses, he said.
Also present on the occasion were social welfare minister Paul Lyngdoh and commissioner & secretary (Social Welfare) Pravin Bakshi among others.
