Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday highlighted a column by Women and Child Development Minister Annapurna Devi detailing how the government is using digital tools to improve services for women and children. The article, published this week, underscores the administration’s push to embed technology across welfare programmes as part of its Viksit Bharat@2047 agenda. Central to the effort is the Poshan Tracker, which logs real-time nutrition and health data from 1.4 million Anganwadi centres and now covers more than 101 million beneficiaries, including pregnant women, lactating mothers and children under six. The Tracker, recognised with the 2025 Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration, supports the Saksham Anganwadi scheme that is modernising about 200,000 community centres with smart devices and upgraded infrastructure. Direct benefit transfers are also being scaled up. Under the fully digital Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana, roughly ₹19,000 crore has been paid to four crore women, providing ₹5,000 for a first child and ₹6,000 when the second child is a girl. According to Health Ministry data, the sex ratio at birth has improved from 918 in 2014-15 to 930 in 2023-24, while the maternal mortality rate fell to 97 per 100,000 births in 2018-20 from 130 in 2014-16. Other technology-led platforms include the SHe-Box portal for workplace harassment complaints, the Mission Shakti dashboard that links women in distress to local support centres, and the CARINGS system that streamlines adoption procedures. Annapurna Devi said these integrated systems are designed to deliver faster, more transparent services and ensure resources reach the “last mile.”