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The Union Home and Cooperation Minister recently launched the PM Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT) as a pilot project in Gujarat. The digital platform aims to strengthen maternal and child health, nutrition, and family welfare through integrated monitoring and timely delivery of government welfare services.

About PM Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT)

The PM Family Care Tracker (PM-FCT) is a family-centric digital platform designed to ensure that pregnant women, mothers, children, and adolescents receive all eligible government benefits through continuous monitoring, real-time tracking, and timely intervention.

Unlike existing systems that maintain separate records for different welfare schemes, PM-FCT adopts a single integrated family-based approach, enabling authorities to monitor the health, nutrition, education, and welfare status of every family member through one digital interface.

The platform digitally tracks the complete life cycle of a child—from pregnancy to 18 years of age—while facilitating seamless delivery of health and social welfare services.

Key Features

The platform provides end-to-end digital monitoring of major health and development milestones, including:

• Antenatal and postnatal care.
• Immunisation schedules.
• Nutrition and growth monitoring.
• School enrolment and attendance.
• Adolescent health services.

It also offers Digital Health Passports for individuals and families, integrated dashboards for government departments, and automated alerts to improve service delivery.

For instance, if a child misses a scheduled vaccination or drops out of school, the system automatically generates alerts that are sent to local officials, public representatives, and community volunteers, enabling timely intervention.

Integrated Digital Governance

PM-FCT seeks to improve convergence among multiple government departments by integrating information from:

• Birth and death registration systems.
• Health databases.
• Nutrition programmes.
• Education records.
• Family welfare databases.

This integrated approach is expected to minimise duplication, improve coordination, and ensure that eligible beneficiaries receive services without delay.

Objectives

The initiative aims to:

• Improve maternal and child health outcomes.
• Ensure timely delivery of welfare benefits.
• Reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) and Infant Mortality Rate (IMR).
• Address child malnutrition through continuous monitoring.
• Reduce service delivery gaps through real-time digital tracking.
• Promote evidence-based decision-making and targeted interventions.

Pilot Implementation

The pilot phase will initially be implemented in Gandhinagar district, Gujarat. Based on its performance and outcomes, the platform is proposed to be expanded across Gujarat and subsequently replicated in other States.