{"id":20257,"date":"2024-02-08T01:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20257"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:07:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:37:54","slug":"kilkari-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kilkari-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkari programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kilkari programme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Kilkari\u2019 (meaning \u2018a baby\u2019s gurgle\u2019), is a\u00a0centralized interactive voice response (IVR) based\u00a0mobile health service.<\/li>\n<li>Features\n<ul>\n<li>It delivers free, weekly, time-appropriate 72 audio messages\u00a0about pregnancy,\u00a0childbirth, and\u00a0childcare directly to families\u2019 mobile phones from the\u00a0second trimester of pregnancy until the child is one year old.<\/li>\n<li>Women who are registered in Reproductive Child Health (RCH) portal based on the woman\u2019s LMP (last menstrual period) or the child\u2019s DoB (Date of Birth), receive a weekly call with pre-recorded audio content directly to the mobile phones of pregnant women and mothers with children under the age of one year.<\/li>\n<li>Kilkari audio messages are present in the form of the voice of a fictitious doctor character called Dr. Anita.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is centrally\u00a0hosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) for all the States\/UTs and no further investment in the technology, telephony infrastructure or operational costs is required to be borne by States\/UTs.<\/li>\n<li>This service is FREE of cost for States\/UTs and beneficiaries.<\/li>\n<li>The programme is\u00a0integrated with the centralized Reproductive Child Health (RCH) portal of MoHFW\u2019s and is the single source of information for this mHealth service.<\/li>\n<li>Currently Kilkari is under implementation in 18 States \/ UTs of India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is Mobile Academy?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a free audio training course designed to expand and\u00a0refresh the knowledge of Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs)\u00a0and improve their communication skills via their mobile phones, which is both cost-effective and efficient.<\/li>\n<li>It is an anytime, anywhere training course that can train thousands of ASHAs simultaneously via mobile phone.<\/li>\n<li>It is operational in 17 States\/UTs except Chandigarh with six languages viz. Hindi, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Assamese, Bengali &amp; Telugu versions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Reproductive and Child Health (RCH)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an extended maternal child health of family welfare or safe motherhood or child survival and safe motherhood programme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2003571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Union Ministers of State for Health and Family Welfare, Prof. S P Singh Baghel and Dr. Bharati Pravin Pawar Launch Mobile Health Service &#8216;Kilkari&#8217; and Mobile Academy in Maharashtra and Gujarat to Strengthen Public Health Infrastructure<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kilkari programme is a centralized interactive voice response (IVR) based mobile health service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}