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Government Of India Scheme Notes – On Ministries of Women and Child Development – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
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1. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP)
• Ministry of Women & Child Development (MWCD) had issued a clarification.Continue Reading Government Of India Scheme Notes – On Ministries of Women and Child Development – For W.B.C.S. Examination.
note stating that the BBBP scheme has no provision for individual CASH
TRANSFER COMPONENT by Government of India.
• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme focuses on:
o Challenging mindsets and deep-rooted patriarchy in the societal
system,
o Strict enforcement of PC&PNDT Act,
o Advancing education of the girl child
o Focus on issues of women empowerment on a life cycle continuum.
• It is not a DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) scheme.
• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) Scheme was launched in January, 2015 at
Panipat in Haryana.
• The scheme is aimed at promoting gender equality and the significance of
educating girls.
• The Scheme is targeted at improving the Child Sex Ratio through multi sectoral
interventions including prevention of gender biased sex selection and
promoting girls’ education and her holistic empowerment.
• It is a tri-ministerial effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development,
Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development.
• In the first phase, 100 districts with low Child Sex Ratio were selected.
2. Mahila Police Volunteers (MPVs)
• The Ministry of Women and Child Development in collaboration with the
Ministry of Home Affairs has envisaged engagement of Mahila Police
Volunteers (MPVs) in the States and Union Territories who will act as a link
between police and community and help women in distress.
• All Chief Secretaries of States/UTs have been requested to adopt this initiative
in their respective States.
• Background:
o Haryana is the first state to adopt the initiative at Karnal and
Mahindergarh District on a pilot basis under Nirbhaya Fund during the
financial year 2016-2017.
• About the scheme:
o Originally conceived by the Union Ministry of Women & Child
Development, Mahila Police Volunteer is a joint initiative with the
Union Ministry of Home Affairs.
o The Mahila Police Volunteers scheme envisages creation of a link
between the police authorities and the local communities in villages
through police volunteers who will be women specially trained for this
purpose.
o Their primary job will be to keep an eye on situations where women in
the village are harassed or their rights and entitlements are denied or
their development is prevented.
O NOTES ne Mahila Police Volunteer (MPV) is envisaged per Gram Panchayat
across the country.
o MPV must be at least 21 years old and possess at least class 12th
certificate.
o These will be selected through a laid-out procedure from among the
empowered, responsible, socially aware women who will facilitate
police outreach on gender concerns.
3. Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
• As per the latest data released by the Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion
(CDFI) that uses technology for financial inclusion, the government has
transferred over Rs 1,600 crore to eligible mothers under Pradhan Mantri
Matru Vandana Yojana through direct benefit transfer so far.
• CAS (Common Application Software) System:
o CDFI is a non-profit organisation. It had conceptualised, designed and
implemented the PMMVY-CAS (Common Application Software) System
through which disbursements were made.
• About PMMVY:
o Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) is a maternity benefit
rechristened from erstwhile Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana
(IGMSY). The IGMSY was launched in 2010.
o PMMVY provides partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of
cash incentives so that the woman can take adequate rest before and
after delivery of the first living child.
o It is implemented in all the districts of the country in accordance with
the provision of the National Food Security Act, 2013.
• Exceptions:
o The maternity benefits under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
(PMMVY) are available to all Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers
(PW&LM) except those in regular employment with the Central
Government or State Government or Public Sector Undertaking or those
who are in receipt of similar benefits under any law for the time being in
force.
• Funding:
o The scheme is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme under which cost sharing
ratio between the Centre and the States & UTs with Legislature is 60:40
while for North-Eastern States & three Himalayan States; it is 90:10.
o It is 100% Central assistance for Union Territories without Legislature.
4. SHe- Box
• The Ministry of Women and Child Development has linked SHe- Box, the online
portal to report complaints of Sexual Harassment at Workplace, to all the
Central Ministries, Departments and 653 districts across 33 States/Union
Territories.
• For prompt disposal of complaints on SHe-Box, each case goes directly to the
central/ state authority concerned having jurisdiction to take action in the
matter.
• About SHe-box:
o What is it? NOTES It is an online complaint management system for registering
complaints related to sexual harassment at workplace.
o It was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
o The complaint management system has been developed to ensure the
effective implementation of Sexual Harassment of Women at
Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act (the SH Act),
2013.
o How it works? Once a complaint is submitted to the portal, it will be
directly sent to the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the
concerned Ministry/Department/PSU/Autonomous Body etc. having
jurisdiction to inquire into the complaint.
o Through this portal, WCD as well as complainant can monitor the
progress of inquiry conducted by the ICC.
• Significance of the portal:
o Any woman working in any office of Central Government / State
Government / Private
organisation can file complaint related to sexual harassment at
workplace through this SHe-Box.
o Those who had already filed a written complaint with the concerned
Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) constituted under the SH Act are
also eligible to file their complaint through this portal.
• Background:
o The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention,
Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 seeks to protect women from
sexual harassment at their place of work.
o This statute superseded the Vishakha Guidelines for prevention of
sexual harassment introduced by the Supreme Court of India.
o Under the Act, which also covers students in schools and colleges as
well as patients in hospitals, employers and local authorities will have
to set up grievance committees to investigate all complaints.
5. Krishna Kutir
• Union Ministry of Women and Child Development recently inaugurated
widows’ home ‘Krishna Kutir’ at Vrindavan in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
• The construction of the home was funded by Central Government and it will be
managed by the Uttar Pradesh Government.
• Krishna Kutir:
o Krishna Kutir is a special home for 1000 widows set under Swadhar
Greh scheme and is the largest ever facility of its kind created by
government organization.
o It was constructed to mitigate the plight of widows living in pathetic
condition in Vrindavan.
• About Swadhar Greh Scheme:
o The Swadhar scheme was launched by the Union Ministry of Women
and Child Development in 2002 for rehabilitation of women in difficult
circumstances.
o Swadhar Greh will be set up in every district with capacity of 30 women
with the following objectives:
▪ To provide shelter, food, clothing and care to the marginalized
women/girls who are in need.
▪ To provide them with legal aid and guidance to enable them to
take steps for their readjustment in family/society.
▪ To rehabilitate them economically and emotionally.
o The benefit of the scheme could be availed by women above 18 years
of age. Girls up to the age of 18 years and boys up to the age of 8 years
would be allowed to stay in the Swadhar Greh with their mothers.
o The beneficiaries include widows deserted by their families and
relatives, women prisoners released from jail and without family
support, women survivors of natural disasters, women victims of
terrorist/extremist violence etc.
• Implementation of the scheme:
o The implementing agencies are mainly NGOs. Other implementing
agencies are State Government agencies, Central or State autonomous
bodies, Municipal Bodies, Cantonment Boards, Panchayati Raj
Institutions and Cooperative institutions.
6. Poshan Maah
• The Government is celebrating the month of September, 2018 as the National
Nutrition Month under the Poshan Abhiyan.
• About Poshan Maah (National Nutrition Month):
o The primary objective of the celebration of Poshan Maah is to take the
messages of POSHAN to the grass root level.
o The programme- an initiative of WCD Ministry and NITI Aayog is
supported by 18 line Ministries/Departments/Government
Organizations.
o It seeks to synergise all efforts by leveraging technology and intends to
take nutrition awareness to the level of Jan Andolan or People’s
Movement.
o The programme focuses on several themes – Antenatal Care, Optimal
Breastfeeding (Early & Exclusive), Complementary Feeding, Anemia,
Growth Monitoring, Girls-education, diet, right age of Marriage, Hygiene
& Sanitation, Food Fortification.
• About POSHAN Abhiyan:
o POSHAN stands for Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic
Nutrition.
o POSHAN Abhiyaan is a multi-ministerial convergence mission with the
vision to ensure attainment of malnutrition free India by 2022.
o The objective of POSHAN Abhiyaan to reduce stunting in identified
Districts of India with the highest malnutrition burden by improving
utilization of key Anganwadi Services and improving the quality of
Anganwadi Services delivery.
o Its aim to ensure holistic development and adequate nutrition for
pregnant women, mothers and children.
o It targets to reduce level of under-nutrition and other related problems
by ensuring convergence of various nutrition related schemes.
o It also targets stunting, anaemia (among young children, women and
adolescent girls) and low birth rate.
o NOTES Its large component involves gradual scaling-up of interventions
supported by on-going World Bank assisted Integrated Child
Development Services (ICDS) Systems Strengthening and Nutrition
Improvement Project (ISSNIP) to all districts in the country by 2022.
• KEY NUTRITION STRATEGIES AND INTERVENTIONS
o These are key Nutrition strategies and interventions: IYCF (Infant and
Young child feeding), Food and Nutrition, Immunization, Institutional
Delivery, WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene), De-worming, ORS-Zinc,
Food Fortification, Dietary Diversification, Adolescent Nutrition,
Maternal Health and Nutrition, ECD (Early childhood
development)/ECCE (Early Childhood care and Education), Convergence,
ICT-RTM (Information and Communication. Technology enabled Real
Time Monitoring) and Capacity Building etc.
• Implementation strategy
o POSHAN Abhiyaan targets to reduce stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia
(among young children, women and adolescent girls) and reduce low
birth weight by 2%, 2%, 3% and 2% per annum respectively.
o Although the target to reduce Stunting is at least 2% p.a., Mission would
strive to achieve reduction in Stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by
2022 (Mission 25 by 2022).
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