MEMPA holds training on ‘Mana Dabbulu Mana Lekkalu’ app

Vijayawada: Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas (MEPMA) on Monday conducted a training program on the usage of the “Mana Dabbulu Mana Lekkalu” (MDML) app and mobile bookkeeping for field staff and training the trainees (TOTs), Self-Help Groups (SHG) members, bookkeepers, IT anchor persons, resource persons (RPs) and others.

The training was held at the SERP Head Office, Vijayawada, under the chairmanship of Additional Mission Director K. Naga Venkateswara Rao. The MDML app, developed by the Government of Andhra Pradesh under the MEPMA initiative, enables SHG members to transparently record and review their monthly financial and non-financial transactions directly on their mobile phones.

Any discrepancies can be reported and corrected through the voice message grievance feature. As per the Mission Director’s instructions, experienced SHG members, bookkeepers, and RPs from each district were selected as TOTs, along with IT Anchor Persons and TE-IBs, to attend this training.

To ensure smooth implementation of the MDML app, a special action plan was scheduled from February16 to 25. This included app field testing, issue resolution, demo sessions, finalization, TOT training, and preparation of district/ULB-wise action plans. Furthermore, SPMU officials from MEPMA headquarters were allotted districts to oversee and monitor the accurate uploading of SHG transaction data by April 15.

The training program was attended by the Additional Mission Director, SERP IB, TCS staff, State Mission Managers, Head Office staff, SHG members, bookkeepers, and RPs