Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) App ; Area Officer Monitoring App 

Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) App ; Area Officer Monitoring App 

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Policies and interventions 

In news

• National Mobile Monitoring Software (NMMS) app and Area officer monitoring App was recently launched
• Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Key takeaways 

• The NMMS App permits taking real time attendance of workers at Mahatma Gandhi NREGS worksites along with geotagged photograph. 
• This will increase citizen oversight of the programme besides potentially enabling processing payments faster
• Area Officer Monitoring App facilitates them to record their findings online along with time stamped and go-coordinate tagged photograph for all the schemes of Deptt of Rural Development. 
• This would also enable better record keeping of inspections by field and supervisory officials and also facilitate analysis of the findings for better programme implementation.