PM Family Care Tracker launched in Gujarat to digitally monitor maternal and child health

Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah recently launched the PM Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT), a digital platform aimed at strengthening maternal and child health, nutrition, and family welfare through real-time monitoring of beneficiaries.

Introduced as a pilot project in Gujarat, beginning with Gandhinagar, the platform seeks to integrate health, nutrition, and welfare services by tracking pregnant women, newborns, infants, children, and adolescents up to 18 years of age.

The PM-FCT provides end-to-end monitoring of key health milestones, including antenatal and postnatal care, immunisation, nutrition, growth monitoring, school enrolment and attendance, and adolescent health services.

The platform also features digital Health Passports for individuals and families, dashboards to facilitate delivery of government welfare schemes, and automated alerts for missed vaccinations and other essential health services.

The initiative aims to improve convergence across multiple government departments by integrating data from birth and death registration systems, and health, nutrition and education databases. 

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Officials said the platform is expected to enable timely interventions, reduce maternal and infant mortality, address malnutrition, and minimise gaps in service delivery.

During the launch, Mr. Shah also administered polio drops to children, underscoring the government’s continued emphasis on immunisation and preventive healthcare.

The PM-FCT forms part of the Centre’s broader push towards technology-enabled governance and data-driven welfare delivery. Following its pilot implementation in Gujarat, the platform is expected to be expanded in phases to other parts of the country.

Giving details about the initiative, a senior Central government official said that the PM-FCT is designed as a family-centric digital platform, rather than maintaining separate records for different schemes, allowing authorities to track the health and welfare status of every family member through a single interface.

He added that the initiative reflects the Centre’s increasing reliance on integrated digital platforms to improve last-mile delivery of welfare schemes by enabling real-time tracking of beneficiaries and reducing fragmentation across departments.

“The platform is expected to facilitate convergence among multiple departments, including health, women and child development, education, local administration and civil registration, enabling frontline workers to identify beneficiaries who have missed services,” he said, adding that the real-time alerts allow officials to intervene promptly.

The system will also aid in minimising duplication of beneficiary records by integrating data from birth and death registration, health facilities, Anganwadi services and schools.

”The platform will ease evidence-based planning, allowing district and State administrations to identify high-risk pregnancies, malnourished children, and gaps in service delivery through digital dashboards. After it’s assessment in Gujarat decision on scaling it up will be taken up,” add the official.