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16/04/22 18:32 PM IST

Migration tracking system (MTS)

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  • In a first of its kind project in the country, the Maharashtra government has developed a website-based migration tracking system (MTS) application to map the movement of vulnerable seasonal migrant workers through individual unique identity numbers.
Features of MTS 
  • The MTS project is envisaged to maintain the continuity of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) like nutrition supply, immunisation and health check-up etc. to migrant beneficiaries including children aged up to 18 years, lactating mothers and pregnant women registered with the anganwadi centres.
  • Their migration will be tracked for ensuring the portability of the ICDS for their families in their destination districts within or outside the state until their return to their native places.
  • The state has sought to capture the data of intra-district, inter-districts and interstate migration of such workers.
  • Maharashtra is the first state in India to develop such an app for the tracing and porting of ICDS facilities to anganwadi beneficiaries during their seasonal migration.
Why this project? 
  • As seen during the Covid lockdowns, a large number of women and children had got displaced and missed on their nutrition, vaccination and other services under the ICDS scheme.
  • So, we decided to make a real-time map of the influx and efflux of the seasonal migration so that we can port the facilities to the place of migration with the help of the District Project Officers of that area.
About App
  • The app is the brainchild of Chandrapur district CEO Mittali Sethi, with the WCD department later adding more features to customise it as per the needs of anganwadi workers.
  • On the MTS app, the anganwadi workers would also collect details about various informal sectors — such as brick kilns, agriculture labour, stone crushing, construction work, sugarcane cutting or sugar factory — where the migrant workers are headed along with their children. 

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