The Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is an Indian government initiative to track maternal and child health beneficiaries and improve service delivery. It registers pregnant women and children under 5 for antenatal care, delivery care, postnatal care, and immunizations. Frontline health workers use MCTS to generate work plans, ensure all beneficiaries receive scheduled services, and update the system in real time. Over 2.8 crore mothers and 2.06 crore children have been registered in MCTS so far. The government aims for 100% registration and updating of services provided through the system.

1. MOTHER AND CHILD TRACKING
SYSTEM

2. INTRODUCTION
Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is
an initiative of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
to leverage information technology for ensuring
delivery of full spectrum of healthcare and
immunization services to pregnant women and
children up to 5 years of age.

3. • India’s Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is
an information system for tracking maternal and child
health beneficiaries in India’s public health system,
and improving service delivery planning and
outcomes.
• Among the most vulnerable populations, pregnant
women and children in resource-poor settings need
health systems that are capable of delivering timely
and quality care.

4. Cont.,
• At the forefront of service delivery in many Low
and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) are
Frontline Health Workers (FHWs), who are
responsible for identifying all eligible
beneficiaries within their catchment areas and
ensuring that each beneficiary receives the full
schedule of services.

5. Cont.,
• Generation of work plans of ANMs, sending regular
alerts to the service providers as well as beneficiaries
about the services due and a user-friendly dash board
for health managers at various levels to monitor
delivery of services will go a long way in ensuring
quality service delivery, micro birth planning, ensuring
universal immunization

6. Cont.,
• It will have positive impact on important health
indicators like Infant Mortality Rate and Maternal
Mortality Ratio.
• It will also help in evidence based planning and
continuous assessment of service delivery to pregnant
women and children.

7. OBJECTIVES:
• Registration of Pregnant Women
• Ante-Natal Care (ANC), Delivery & Post-Natal Care
(PNC) Services During the pregnancy period, MCTS
records 4 ANC services given to pregnant women and
then captures delivery details like date of delivery,
place of delivery and its outcome and then PNC
Service

8. • Work plan for the ANM/ASHA is generated so that
no women are left without services. • Registration of
Children for Immunization In order to give 30
immunizations to every child, she/he is registered in
MCTS application.
• Immunization Services to Children Immunization is
given to every child as per the schedule and Work
plan is generated to be consumed by ANM/ASHA
from the MCTS application so that no child is left.

9. Integration with other applications like PFMS, MDR,
MCTFC, Mobile Academy, Kilkari etc. Integrated with:
1.PFMS to make the DBT based JSY payments to the
beneficiary.
2.MCTs Facilitation Centre (MCTFC) to access the
quality of service being delivered in the field.

10. 3. Kilkari Services, a dedicated IVRS platform to
educate beneficiary about the pregnancy & child care
• USSD technology to update the service live on the
MCTS portal.
• 41 Data is updated through USSD by the ANMs on
real time basis on the MCTS portal from the remotest
part of the country

11. National Conference Proceedings(NCP) 2019
MCTS benefit – States:
• At a Glance real time State progress report of the
entire state
• Facilitate in identification of poor performing
Districts, health facilities, SubCenters
• Graphical dashboard for pictorial representation
of the reports
• Special reports of high risk cases
• Dedicated helpdesk for feedback and suggestion

12. • Focused deployment of health workers & any
supplementary immunization activity planning
• Better data analysis for preparation of District
/Block health action plans
• Improved supply chain management of vaccines
and Drugs
• Effective IEC and communication with field
workers and beneficiaries

13. MCTS - Current Status (India):
• An Online Software for MCTS has been
developed which is available at the URL
http://nrhm-mcts.nic.in/
• Total records entered in the MCT System:
• 2.80 Crore mother records already entered since inception.
In 2012-13 total 65.2 lakh mother has already been registered in
MCT System.

14. Cont.,
• 2.06 Crore Child records already entered since
inception. In 2012-13 total 42.3 lakh children have
already been registered in MCT System.
Facilities reporting data related to Mother & Child:
• Correctness of Data
• Calls made to the Beneficiaries

16. Expectations of MOHFW
➢ 100% Registration of Pregnant Women & Children
➢ 100% timely Update of Services Delivered to Pregnant
Women & Children on MCTS Portal
➢ Use of MCTS application by all levels Health workers
➢ Service Delivery to Pregnant Women and Children ensured
➢ Work-plan generation and utilization

17. ➢ Near Real time update of Data on MCTS
➢ Use of MCTS data for review and action-for follow up on
various schemes and programs related to RCH services.
➢ Use of MCTS data for policy formulation, micro planning at
different levels .
➢ Advice DMHO and BMHO for continuous monitoring, field
visit and taking of corrective action based on MCTS information
➢ Improve civil registration

18. Cont.,
• For validating the data entered in MCTS, SMS based approach has been
evolved in addition to establishing call centers at the national and State
levels.
• Messages are sent to both beneficiaries and service providers to verify
their identity as entered in MCTS.
• Registration of pregnant women Registration of children
• Since July 2016 to broaden the scope of MCH services the name of the
system has been changed to “Reproductive and Child health Portal.”

19. Live RCH Roll out Plan - example
➢ Beneficiaries, Health provider etc. data shifted MCTS to RCH
Portal for Pune District including PMC & PCMC Corporation
➢ Currently Block wise training held at Pune.
➢ Block data operator with One PHC ANM called with filled
information of village profile, eligible couple, pregnant women &
children information in RCH Register.

20. Conclusion
• Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) is an initiative of
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to leverage information
technology for ensuring delivery of full spectrum of healthcare and
immunization services to pregnant women and children up to 5
years of age.
• It facilitates and monitors service delivery and also establishes a
two way communication between the service providers and
beneficiaries.