Recent schemes of Women and Child Development Ministry If you want a Good Mother, Sister and Wife, then start educating and nourishing a woman. To develop our country we need our children to be healthy, well-educated and future proof. For the much needed impetus to the holistic development of woman and children the Department of Woman and Child Development has been upgraded to a full-fledged ministry from 30.01.2006. Its main motive is to promote safety, social and economic empowerment of woman and protection, care and development of children through cross cutting policies, programmes and schemes.
All the schemes and programmes under this ministry have been classified under three umbrella schemes i.e. Mission Poshan 2.0, Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti. In the table all the schemes under the umbrella schemes and the fund allocated to it by the last budget 2020-21 has been mentioned.
Below i have discussed all the umbrella and scheme and included scheme in details:
1. Mission Poshan 2.0: To provide enough nutritional content and to strengthen its delivery, outreach and outcomes, government has merged two programmes which are Supplementary Nutrition Programme and Poshan Abhiyan to launch Mission POSHAN 2.0.
ICDS is known as Integrated Child Development Scheme which aimed at development of children below 6 years of age and pregnant women and lactating mothers and women 16-44 years of age by providing a package of six services. They are (i) Supplementary nutrition (ii) Pre-school non-formal education; (iii) Nutrition and health education; (iv) Immunization (v) Health checkup and (vi) Referal services through Anganwadi Centres at base level.
POSHAN Abhiyaan: It was launched in 2018 to tackle with the problem of malnutrition. It will target the children from 0-6 years, Adoloscent Girls, Pregnant women and Lactating Mothers in a time bound manner and reduction in stunting, wasting and anaemia in women and children.
Under the “Scheme for Adolescent Girls”, girls in the age group of 11-14 years are provided supplementary nutrition containing 600 calories, 18-20 grams of protein and micronutrients for 300 days in a year. Pre-school non-formal education Immunizatio n Referal services through Anganwadi Centres Health checkup Nutrition and health education Supplement ary nutrition ICDS
In National Crèche Scheme there will be an integrated package for the children of (6 months to 6 years) of working mothers. This package includes (i) Day care facilities including sleeping facilities (ii) Early stimulation for children below 3 years and preschool education for 3 to 6 years old children (iii) Supplementary nutrition (iv) Growth monitoring (v) Health Check-up and immunization.
2. Mission VATSALYA: Under this scheme many initiatives to ensure safety and well-being of children has been taken.
3. Mission Shakti: The Constitution of the India has granted and protected equal rights to women and men in terms of freedom, equality andopportunity. It has enabled the woman to be the author of her own destiny, a life-cycle continuing approach is being adopted that creates an ecosystem that addresses inherent biases and role plays and equips them with skill sets and etches confidence in them to forge their way ahead. Therefore to protect safety, dignity and security of women are paramount importance for Government.
Under SAMBAL yojona there are schemes like One Stop Centre, Mahila Police Volunteer, Women’s Helpline, Swadhar, Ujjawala, and Widow Homes etc.
i. One Stop Centre (OSC) scheme: OSCs aim to facilitate women affected by violence with a range of integrated services under one roof such as police facilitation, medical aid, providing legal and proper aid and counselling, psycho social counselling, interim shelter etc. Till now 733 OSCs have been approved to be set up in all over India. Among these 684 OSCs have been already established.
ii. Scheme of Universalization of Women Helpline: The Scheme of Women Helpline through the short code 181 provides 24 hours emergency and non- emergency response to women affected by violence, both in public and private spaces by connecting them with appropriate authority such as Police, One Stop Centre, Hospital, Legal Services etc. Woman Help Line also supports women in problem with rescue van and counselling services in addition to providing information about women welfare schemes and programs across the country.
iii. Mahila Police Volunteer: The Mahila Police Volunteers take care of linkage for women who need cordial assistance with law enforcement agencies and various government programmes and initiatives.
Under SAMARTHYA scheme there are lot of scheme like Beti Bachao Beti Padhao(BBBP), pradhan Mantri Matri Vandhana yojona, Gender Budgeting, Research, Ujjawala etc.
i. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao: BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (BBBP) scheme has been launched to address the declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR) and related women empowerment. It is a effort of three ministries including Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development. The important elements of the scheme include , advocacy campaign, nation-wide awareness and multi-sectorial intervention.
ii. Ujjawala : Ujjawala Scheme is for Prevention of trafficking and for Rescue, Rehabilitation, Re-integration and Repatriation of victims of trafficking. Under this scheme, funds are provided to implementing agencies for Rescue and Rehabilitation of victims of trafficking.
iii. Pradhan Mantri Matri Vandhana yojona: This scheme targets all pregnant women and lactating mothers. This scheme pledged that such women will be given partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentives so that these women can get adequate rest after and before delivery of the first living child
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