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ITDA staff use WhatsApp to report, monitor works
Proving that, if used wisely, social media can be a powerful tool in the administration, the authorities of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) have come up with separate WhatsApp groups to monitor education, health and engineering wings in their domain.
Warangal/Adilabad/Khammam: Proving that, if used wisely, social media can be a powerful tool in the administration, the authorities of the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) have come up with separate WhatsApp groups to monitor education, health and engineering wings in their domain.
The ITDA authorities, who understood the fact that monitoring the affairs of schools and primary health centres physically on day-to-day basis is next to impossible, have created WhatsApp groups adding the contact numbers of all the headmasters and medical officials working under the Tribal Sub-Planmandals.
The headmasters have to take photographs of regular classes, slip tests, menu of the diet given to the students, night study hours and the special classes conducted to those studying SSC, and upload them to the WhatsApp group. As information about education and health is reaching the ITDA officials within seconds, the headmasters and health officials appear to be on toes.
The group is monitored by ITDA Project Officer, Tribal Welfare Deputy Director, Agency DEO, ADMO, and other senior officials.
In Utnoor (Adilabad) ITDA, there are 123 tribal welfare ashram schools (85 boys and 38 girls) and 13 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) connected with WhatsApp group. This apart the authorities also linked the Project ‘Avval’, aimed at reducing the infant mortality rate (IMR) and maternal mortality rate (MMR) through institutional deliveries, implemented in 11mandals with WhatsApp health group.
“Authorities concerned who track the pregnant women based on their expected date of delivery (EDD) get them admitted to the hospitals by free ambulance service. The medical officers will be alerted through the WhatsApp health group messages. After the delivery, the medical officers have to take a photograph of the mother and infant and upload it to the group,” Utnoor ITDA Project Officer (PO) RVKarnan said.
In Eturnagaram ITDA in Warangal district, PO D Amay Kumar told The Hans India: “In a few days, we have plans to introduce a toll-free number so that the people living in Agency area can call us to register their grievances about education and health.” As of now, all the 75 tribal ashram and hostels are connected to the WhatsApp group. The Assistant Tribal Welfare officers who spend a night every alternate day in a hostel will have to upload the photographs of students, he added.
M Jayadev Abraham, the Deputy Director of ITDA Bhadrachalam under which there are 64 ashram schools and 28 hostels, said that the district Collector DS Lokesh Kumar is convening a meeting on Thursday for the effective implementation of welfare programmes associated with the development of education and health services. It may be mentioned here that ITDA authorities have long ago distributedsmart phones to all head masters working under its schools.
The other group of the WhatsApp-engineering wing–is taking care of repairs and other facilities in the schools and hostels.
