Women and Child Development Schemes

Women and Child Development Schemes

SCHEMES COVERED

1. Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)
2. SABLA – Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls
3. SAKSHAM – Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Boys
4. Kishori Shakthi Yojana
5. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme (BBBPS)
6. Digital Gudda Guddi Board
7. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
8. Swadhar Greh
9. Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP)
10. National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) / Mission Poorna Shakti
11. Tejaswini
12. Stree Shakti Puraskar
13. Mahila E-Haat
14. Dhanalakshmi Scheme
15. Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
16. Shaadi Shagun

1. Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objective :

To provide nutritional support, healthcare and pre-school education for children under 6 (and for pregnant or lactating mothers) in order to reduce the incidence of mortality, malnutrition and school dropout.

Services Under the ICDS scheme, children under 6 and pregnant or lactating mothers can access four main services:

1. Supplementary nutrition – vitamin A tablets, food grains and rice, and fortified food packages are available for children and mothers who are showing signs of malnourished.
2. Immunisations – children should be given full vaccinations against six preventable diseases: poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis and measles. Pregnant women receive a
vaccination against tetanus that reduces maternal and neonatal mortality.
3. Health check-ups – various health services should be provided for children including treatment of diarrhoea, de-worming and distribution of simple medicines (along with weight and height
monitoring, and immunisations). Ante-natal and post-natal check-ups to be provided for pregnant women and new mothers.
4. Referral services – if, after a health check-up, children or mothers are in need of medical attention they are referred to the Primary Health Centre or sub-centre. Severely malnourished children should be referred to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) and young children with disabilities should be referred to specialists.

In addition, children aged 3-6 should be able to access pre-school non-formal education under ICDS. Women and adolescent girls (aged 15-45) should also be able to access nutrition and health education, providing them with advice and support to help them look after their own health, nutrition and development needs as well as that of their children and families.

2. SABLA – Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objectives :

Enable the Adolescent girls for self-development and empowerment.
Improve their nutrition and health status.
Promote awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, adolescent reproductive and sexual health (ARSH) and family and child care.
Upgrade home-based skills, life skills and integrate with the National Skill Development Program (NSDP) for vocational skills.
Mainstream out of school adolescent girls into formal/non formal education.
Provide information/guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, Post Office, Bank, Police Station, etc.

Services :

Nutrition provision
Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation
Health check-up and Referral services/Nutrition & Health Education (NHE)
Counselling/Guidance on family welfare, Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH)
Child care practices and home management.
Life Skill Education and accessing public services.
Vocational training for girls aged 16 and above under National Skill Development Program (NSDP)

3. SAKSHAM – Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Boys

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objectives :

The scheme was launched for the empowerment of adolescent boys.
The main objectives of this scheme are to facilitate, educate and empower adolescent boys so as to enable them to become self-reliant, gender-sensitive and aware citizens.
The scheme will cover all adolescent those who go to school or out of school in the age-group of 11-18, subdivided into the categories of 11-14 and 14-18.
The scheme also helps in health, education, skill development of adolescent boy.

4. Kishori Shakthi Yojana

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objectives :

It seeks to empower adolescent girls, so as to enable them to take charge of their lives. It is viewed as a holistic initiative for the development of adolescent girls.
It strengthens the training module particularly in vocational features to empower and enhance self–perception, convergence with other programmes of similar nature of education, rural
development, employment and health sectors.
These initiatives are meant to break the cycle of nutritional and gender disadvantage, to provide a supportive atmosphere for self–development.
The programme through its interventions aims at bringing about a difference in the lives of the adolescent girls. It seeks to provide them with an opportunity to realise their full potential.

5. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme (BBBPS)

What? :

It was introduced to address the issue of declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR).
It is a tri-ministerial effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and Human Resource Development.

Objective :

The focus is on awareness and advocacy campaign, multi-sectoral action enabling girls’ education and effective enforcement of Pre-Conception & Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC&PNDT) Act.
The specific objectives of the scheme are preventing gender biased sex selective elimination, ensuring survival and protection of the girl child and ensuring education and participation of the girl child.

6. Digital Gudda Guddi Board

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

What? :

Developed in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, the digital board has been popularised in the area and works as a platform for dissemination of information, education and communication material on BBBP as well as updating monthly birth statistics.
Guddi-Gudda Board’, used for displaying monthly birth statistics and disseminating information on ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ scheme is being currently displayed at important state offices, including that of the chief minister, district-level offices, zila panchayat offices, primary health centres and other public places frequently visited by the common man.
The digital board displays audio-video material as well as still frames for disseminating information.

7. Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objective & Key feature :

It is saving scheme targeted at the parents of girl children.
The scheme encourages parents to build a fund for the future education and marriage expenses for their female child.
The account can be opened anytime between the birth of a girl child and the time she attains 10 years of age by the guardian.
Only one account is allowed per child. Parents can open a maximum of two accounts for each of their children (exception allowed for twins and triplets). The account can be transferred to anywhere in India.
The girl can operate her account after she reaches the age of 10. The account allows 50% withdrawal at the age of 18 for higher education purposes. The account reaches maturity after time period of 21 years from date of opening it.

8. Swadhar Greh

Objectives :

The scheme envisions a supportive institutional framework for women victims of difficult circumstances so that they could lead their life with dignity and conviction.
It envisages that shelter, food, clothing, and health as well as economic and social security are assured for such women.
It also envisions that the special needs of these women are properly taken care of and under no circumstances they should be left unattended or abandoned which could lead to their exploitation and desolation.

9. Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP)

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objective & Key features :

The STEP Scheme aims to provide skills that give employability to women and to provide competencies and skill that enable women to become self – employed/entrepreneurs.
The Scheme is intended to benefit women who are in the age group of 16 years and above across the country.
The grant under the Scheme is given to an institution/ organisation including NGOs directly and not the States/ UTs.
The assistance under STEP Scheme will be available in any sector for imparting skills related to employability and entrepreneurship, including but not limited to the Agriculture, Horticulture, Food Processing, Handlooms etc.

10. National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) / Mission Poorna Shakti

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objectives :

Its aim is to strengthen overall processes that promote all-round development of women.
The mandate of the Mission is to strengthen inter-sectoral convergence and facilitate the process of coordinating all the women’s welfare and socio-economic development programmes across ministries and departments.
The Mission aims to provide a single window service for all programmes run by the Government for Women under the aegis of various Central Ministries.

11. Tejaswini

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

What? :

Tejaswini Project is the name of “Socioeconomic Empowerment of Adolescent Girls and Young Women Project”.

Objectives :

To improve the completion of market-driven skills training and secondary education for adolescent girls and young women.

12. Stree Shakti Puraskar

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

What? :

Stree Shakti Puraskar (Women Power Award) is a series of India’s national honours conferred on individual women for their exceptional achievement.
The award is given in six categories.
It recognises the spirit of courage of a woman in difficult circumstances, who has established this spirit of courage in her personal or professional life.
The award also recognises the pioneering contribution of an individual in empowering women and raising women’s issues.

13. Mahila E-Haat

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

What? :

It is an initiative for meeting aspirations and needs of women entrepreneurs. It is an online marketing platform for women, where participants can display their products.
It is an initiative for women across the country as a part of ‘Digital India’ and ‘Stand Up India’ initiatives.
The platform has been set up under Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK).

14. Dhanalakshmi Scheme

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

What? :

This is a conditional cash transfer scheme for the girl child with insurance cover which would go a long way towards ensuring the survival of the girl child and assuring a better life for her.

Objective :

The direct and tangible objective of the scheme is to provide a set of financial incentives for families to encourage them to retain a girl child, educate her and prevent child marriage.

15. Pradhan Mantri Matritva Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

What? :

PMMVY, previously Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), is a maternity benefit program.
It is a conditional cash transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating women of 19 years of age or above for first two live births.
In 2013, the scheme was brought under the National Food Security Act, 2013 to implement the provision of cash maternity benefit of ₹6,000 stated in the Act.

Key features :

It provides a partial wage compensation to women for wage-loss during childbirth and childcare and provides conditions for safe delivery and good nutrition and feeding practices.

16. Shaadi Shagun

Implemented by : Ministry of Women and Child Development

Objective & Key features :

Aimed at incentivising higher education among minority groups.
Meritorious Muslim girls who go on to complete graduation before marriage will get a special gift of Rs. 51,000 from the government.
All students availing Begum Hazrat Mahal scholarships funded by the Maulana Azad Foundation are eligible to apply for this top-up provision being introduced in the scheme.

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