Andhra Foods is a Government of Andhra Pradesh Enterprise and functioning under the auspices of Andhra Pradesh Nutrition Council, a Society with the assistance of CARE & UNICEF and Government of India for producing and supply of Nutritious Foods to Malnourished School going, pre-school children, Pregnant women and Lactating mothers. Food looses nutritional value if not supplied and consumed in time. Unless there is timely feedback from Anganwadis in time it is difficult to monitor and management. In the field, digital infrastructure, e-literacy etc., are issues. The number of players are several. Coordination is a big challenge. So all these problems were taken as a challenge to device mFoods.

The main objective of mFoods project is to ensure timely supply of fortified nutritious food to 223 Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) projects benefiting 30.62 lakhs of children and women beneficiaries throughout  the state of Andhra Pradesh efficiently and effectively. The target group includes Child Development Project Officers (CDPO), Project Directors at the District level, AP Foods Officials, Women, Child, Disabled and Senior Citizen, Welfare Dept officials at State level, the Transporters etc.

Anganwadi workers/ CDPOs indent food items through mobile phones. Centrallised System keeps track of indents along with date and time, in renspose the supply schedules are updated by AP Foods online. Corresponding alerts goes to the field and transporters. The CDPOs/ Anganwadi workers can acknowledge the food items received through mobiles. Delays, wrong indents, non-indents, non-supplies, wrong supplies, delayed supplies can be tracked by the stakeholders. Thus entire supply chain is getting efficient and streamlined, which is resulting in availability of foods to serve the malnourished children, pregnant women lactating mothers so as to achieve Millennium Development Goals.

This system is operational 24x7x365 basis since its installation as hospitals run 24 hours without any holidays throughout the year. It is implemented with Open source technologies and least cost Internet , Mobile , GIS, GPRS and GPS technologies have been harnessed to reach the un-reached and ensure transparency. This initiative has received many awards like Bhartiya Vikas Rattan Award, Mother Teresa Award, Indira Priyadarshini Award, eWorld 2011 Award etc.

For more information on mFoods, please visit http://apfoods.ap.nic.in/