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Women and Child Welfare Schemes in India
Women and Child Welfare Schemes in India
1. Swayamsidha:
Swayamsidha is an integrated scheme for the development and empowerment of women
through self-help groups. It covers services, access to micro-credit and promotes microenterprises.
2. Swashakti Project:
Swashakti Project aims at increasing womens access to resources for better quality of
life through the use of time reduction devices, by providing health and education
services and by imparting skills to women for income generating activities.
3. Child Development Services Scheme (CDS):
The scheme started in 1975 with the objective to give special coverage to slums in urban
areas. The scheme also envisages delivery of an integrated package of services
consisting of immunization, health check-ups, nutrition and health education and
refreshment services to child and pregnant women.
4. Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women:
It provides new skills and knowledge to poor assetless women in agriculture, animal
husbandry, dairying, fisheries, sericulture, handlooms, handicrafts and khadi and village
industry sectors of employment.
5. Swavlamban:
This scheme provides training and skills to women to enable them to obtain employment
or become self-employed. The trades in which training is imparted include computer
programming, medical transcription, electronic assembling, electronics, radio and TV
repairs,
garment
making,
handloom
weaving,
handicrafts,
secretarial
practice,
Supplementary nutrition,
Immunization,
Health check-up
Referral services,
immunization for children for DTP, Polio and Tetanus Toxoid for women
Vitamin A administration
This programme integrates all family welfare and women and child health services with
the explicit objective of providing beneficiaries with need based, client centered,
demand driven, and high quality integrated RCH services. The strategy for the RCH
programme shifts the policy emphasis from achieving demographic targets to meeting
the health needs of women and children.
Pulse Polio Immunization Programme being implemented by the Ministry of Health
and Family Welfare covers all children blow five years. It is a massive programme covers
166 million children in every round of National Immunization Day.
The other
to Vitamin A and iron, Anemia control programme, Border District Cluster Strategy and
Integrated Management of Neo-natal and childhood illness.
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan being implemented by the Department of Education provides
for school infrastructure and quality improvement in education of the children. The
specific objectives are,
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Bridging all gender and social gaps at primary stage by 2007 and at elementary
flagship programme, the Government aims to provide free and compulsory elementary
education to all children in the 6-14 age group by 2010.
Mid-day meal Scheme is also one of the important schemes of the Government to aim
universal enrollment and retention of children. Under the programmed nutrition snacks
are provided to children attending schools..
Integrated Programme for Juvenile Justice
The programme is being implemented by the Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment with a view to providing carte to children in difficult circumstances and
children in conflict with the law through Government institutions and through NGOs.
Some special features of the scheme areas:
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Institutional are shall be used but only as a last measure by enlarging the
infrastructure.
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promote policies that strengthen public health management and service delivery in the
country.
Elimination of Child Labour is being implemented by the Ministry of Labour which
sanctions projects for rehabilitation of working children and for elimination of child
labour.
Under the project based Action Plan of the Policy, National Child Labour
Projects (NCLPs) have been set up in different areas to rehabilitate child labour. A major
activity undertaken under the NCLP is the establishment of special schools to provide
non-formal education, vocational training, supplementary nutrition etc. to children
withdrawn from employment. 150 Child Labour Projects have so far been sanctioned for
rehabilitating children in the most endemic areas and 1.5 lakh children have already
been mainstreamed in the special schools.
Prevention of Offences against Children
After wide consultations a draft Bill for offences Against Children has been
prepared and circulated to the State Governments for their comments and views. After
obtaining the comments of the State governments and concerned Ministries and
Departments a draft has bee prepared and circulated to the concerned Ministries and
Departments for their comments and use.