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Ministry of Women and Child Development

Year End Review-2022: Ministry of Women and

Child Development

Organisation of various Schemes of the Ministry into three

verticals- Saksham Anganwadi & Poshan 2.0, Mission Shakti
and Mission Vatsalya

Anganwadi workers provided with 11.22 lakh smart phones;

12.65 lakh Growth Monitoring Devices procured by
States/UTs.

9.84 crore beneficiaries onboarded on POSHAN Tracker;

close to 85.63% beneficiaries registered on the “Poshan
Tracker” successfully Aadhar seeded

Migration facility for pregnant women and lactating mothers

from one AWC to another within and outside a State
facilitated for the first time

5th Rashtriya Poshan Maah celebrated with Gram

Panchayats as the focal point of all the activities; More than
15 crore activities conducted under the various themes,
across the country

Under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana 2.79 Crore

beneficiaries benefited with a total payment to a tune of Rs.
12,241 Crores

Assistance provided to over 88 lakh women through 730 One

Stop Centers or Sakhi Centers across 36 States/UTs.

Juvenile Justice Model Amendment Rules, 2022 notified on

1st September 2022 and Adoption Regulations, 2022 notified
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with effect from 23rd September 2022

Ministry of WCD launched “Stree Manoraksha Project” in

collaboration with NIMHANS Bengaluru for psycho social
training for staff and counselors of One Stop Centres

Nari Shakti Puraskar-2020 and 2021 conferred to 29

outstanding Women achievers
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Empowerment and protection of women and children, and ensuring their wholesome development is
crucial for sustainable and equitable development of the country. Various measures have been taken
by Ministry of Women and Child Development to promote social and economic empowerment of
women through cross-cutting policies and programmes, mainstreaming gender concerns, creating
awareness about their rights and facilitating institutional and legislative support for enabling them to
realize their human rights and develop to their full potential. Similarly, safe and secure childhood has
also been ensured to our children through cross-cutting policies and programmes, spreading
awareness about their rights and facilitating access to learning, nutrition, institutional and legislative
support.

The key initiatives/achievements of the Ministry of Women and Child Development during the Year
2022 are as under:

Organisation of various Schemes of the Ministry into three verticals: To ensure better monitoring
and efficient implementation, all the schemes being implemented by the Ministry for women and
children in the country have been organised into three verticals, viz. (1) Saksham Anganwadi &
Poshan 2.0 for Nutrition Support for Children, Adolescent Girls and Pregnant Women & Lactating
Mothers; and for Early Childhood Care & Education (2) Mission Shakti for safety, security and
empowerment of women (3) Mission Vatsalya for protection and welfare of children with enhanced
outlay of Rs. 20,989 crores, Rs. 10,916 crores and Rs.1,02,031 crores respectively over the 15th
Finance Commission Cycle.

Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0

MoWCD issued the Scheme Guidelines for Mission Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 on
01.08.2022. Also, the Integrated Nutrition Support Programme – Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan
(2.0), Rules, 2022 dated 12.09.2022 was notified and rules were published on 06.10.2022. Under
Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0, 2 lakh AWCs @40,000 AWCs per year in aspirational districts
would be strengthened, upgraded and rejuvenated for improved nutrition and educational delivery. In
FY 2022-23, all 40,000 Saksham Anganwadis have been identified in aspirational districts.

So far, Anganwadi workers have been provided with 11.22 lakh smart phones.
Besides, to promote regular growth monitoring of children, 12.65 lakh Growth
Monitoring Devices, such as Infantometer, Stadiometer, Weighing Scale for Mother and Infant,
Weighing Scale for Child, have been procured by States/UTs.

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POSHAN Tracker: To promote the nutritional status of women and children, a transparent and
enabling environment is being created that nurtures health, wellness and immunity. Poshan Tracker
application has been built on latest technology for ensuring real-time monitoring of supplementary
nutrition and providing information for prompt supervision and management of services. As on
31.10.2022, approximately 9.84 crore beneficiaries have been onboarded. Beneficiaries are being
Aadhar seeded to ensure last mile tracking and delivery of services. As on date, close to 85.63%
beneficiaries registered on the Poshan Tracker have been successfully ‘Aadhar’ seeded. For the first
time, Migration facility for pregnant women and lactating mothers from one AWC to another within
and outside a State has been facilitated under the Poshan Tracker. Migration facility from one
category to another category of beneficiary is also available.
POSHAN Pakhwada (21st March- 4th April 2022) :

In order to ensure wide-spread engagement to ensure nutrition centric mass movement for Poshan
Abhiyaan, Poshan Pakhwada was held from 21st March- 4th April 2022. This focussed around
themes including height and weight measurement of beneficiary children up to 6 years of age at
Anganwadi Centres, activities concentrated around Gender Sensitive Water Management, Anaemia
and Traditional Food for healthy mother and child especially in Tribal Areas. This was brought in
convergence with Ministry of Jal Shakti (MoJS) and Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA).

As a result of keen participation of all concerned stakeholders, around 3 crore activities under various
themes were reported during Poshan Pakhwada 2022. Growth Monitoring activity remained the
highest at 10% of activities. This was followed by activities around Breastfeeding, Hygiene, Water &
Sanitation, Complementary Feeding, first 1000 days, ECCE, Hand Wash & Sanitation, Antenatal
Check-up, demonstration on cooking with millet under regional nutrition kit distribution with
participation of close to 40 lakh participants.

Rashtriya Poshan Maah (September 2022)

During the entire month of September, 2022, the 5th Rashtriya Poshan Maah was celebrated with
Gram Panchayats as the focal point of all the activities. The broader themes for Poshan Maah 2022
were Mahila aur Swasthya, Bachcha aur Shiksha, Gender Sensitive Water Management and
Traditional Food for Women & Children. Approximately 43 lakh activities on the theme of Gender
Sensitive Water Management and Conservation through workshops, seminars and drives for
identifying Anganwadi Centres for installing rainwater harvesting structures were carried out. Over
all, more than 15 crore activities were conducted under the various themes, across the country during
the Poshan Maah.

The highlights being-

• Strategy for Behaviour Change Communication under ‘Jan Andolan' to promote a transformative
change to address critical issues such as inadequate and inappropriate infant and young child feeding
practices, importance of nutrition and care during pregnancy and adolescence and awareness of good
health practices to break the inter-generational cycle of malnutrition.

• A National Seminar on Indigenous Toys for Nurturing Early Childhood Development organized in
Delhi under the chairperson-ship of Hon’ble Minister of WCD on 30th September 2022 at Dr.
Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi. The workshop / seminar was live streamed on YouTube
for the benefit of all ICDS functionaries up to the Anganwadi Workers / Helpers.

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• The Poshan Maah culminated with a Poshan Utsav at Kartavyapath, New Delhi from 30th
September to 2nd October 2022. The event was conducted in the nature of a celebratory fair on the
theme of Poshan -centered on Poshan Parades, healthy-food stalls, health check-up stalls etc.with
cultural programmes and AR photo op with Hon’ble PM to attract children and people at large.

Mission Shakti-

Mission Shakti comprises of two sub-schemes ‘Sambal’ and ‘Samarthya’ for safety and security of
women and empowerment of women respectively. The existing schemes of One Stop Centres (OSC),
Women Helplines (181-WHL) and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) have been made part of Sambal
sub- scheme and a new component Nari Adalat has been introduced; while the existing schemes of
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), Ujjwala & Swadhar Greh (Shakti Sadan),
Working Women Hostel (Sakhi Niwas), Gender Budgeting and National Crèche Scheme along with a
new component of Hubs for empowerment of women at National, State, District levels have been
subsumed in ‘Samarthya’. The scheme guidelines for Mission Shakti were issued on 14th July 2022.

p. Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY): The Scheme envisages providing cash incentive
amounting to Rs. 5,000/- in two instalments directly to the Bank/Post Office Account of
Pregnant Women and Lactating Mother (PW& LM) in DBT Mode during pregnancy and
lactation. Additionally, the scheme has been expanded to provided maternity benefit amounting
to Rs.6000/-cover second child, but only if the second child is a girl child. This is to discourage
pre- birth sex selection. It is a measure for women empowerment through wage compensation
and promotion of health seeking behaviour. As on 30.11.2022, 2.79 Crore beneficiaries have
benefited with a total payment to a tune of Rs. 12,241 Crores under the scheme.

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao: The scheme is being implemented in all districts of the country through
multi- sectoral intervention. The Scheme has stirred up collective consciousness towards changing
the mind-set of the Nation towards valuing the girl child. This is reflected in the improvement of Sex
Ratio at Birth (SRB) by 16 points at National level, from 918 in 2014-15 to 934 in 2021-22(HMIS,
of MH&FW).

National Conference on Skilling in Non- Traditional Livelihood for Girls “Betiyan Bane
Kushal”

The Ministry in partnership with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE)
and Ministry of Minority Affairs organized an inter-ministerial conference on non-traditional
livelihoods (NTLs) for adolescent girls on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child on
11th October 2022.The conference emphasized convergence between ministries and departments to
ensure that girls build their skills and enter the workforce in a diverse set of professions, including
science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), where girls have historically been under-
represented. The event also witnessed signing of MoUs with the Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and Ministry of Minority Affairs for Skilling of young Girls for their
increased, equal and empowered participation in the workforce. Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Operational
Manual for guidance of State/Districts for the implementation of the scheme consequent to the
changes made as per Mission Shakti guidelines was also launched on the occasion.

One Stop Centres: For women affected by violence and in need of assistance, a range of integrated
services are being provided under one roof, including facilitation with police, medical and legal aid
and counselling and psycho-social counselling through 730 One Stop Centers or Sakhi Centers across

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36 States/UTs. Also, emergency/non-emergency help is provided through toll-free women helpline

(181). As on 30.09.2022, assistance has been provided to over 88 lakh women.

Nirbhaya Fund: A meeting of Empowered Committee (EC) of Officers was held on 17.10.2022 in
which besides reviewing the status of implementation of 35 earlier approved projects/ schemes, the
EC had appraised 3 more projects for funding under Nirbhaya Fund which include (i) Installation of
Storage boxes and (ii) Installation of CCTV cameras in 16 women markets (Government of
Manipur); (iii) Installation of Vehicle Tracing Devices with SOS Buttons in Buses of TSRTC with
monitoring from Central Command Control Centre (State Government of Telangana).

Mission Vatsalya

The scheme guidelines for ‘Mission Vatsalya’ were issued on 05th July 2022.

Juvenile Justice Amendment Act: The Juvenile Justice Model Amendment Rules, 2022 have
been notified on 1st September 2022 and Adoption Regulations, 2022 have been notified with effect
from 23rd September 2022. The DMs have now been made the nodal authority at District levels for
all matters relating to child safety, empowerment and safety including issuance of adoption orders.
Regional consultations were held virtually for all DMs/ADMs, CWCs and DCPUs of States /UTs
from 20-30 September, 2022 on amendments in JJ Act and Rules and Adoption Regulations.

PM CARES Fund for children in distress due to COVID-19- PM CARES for Children
Scheme: To support children who have lost both parents, single surviving parent, legal guardian or
adoptive parents to Covid-19 pandemic, the scheme for PM Cares for Children was launched on
29th May, 2021 by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. A total of 4345 children were found eligible
under the scheme.

On 30th May, 2022, the Prime Minister provided benefits and services for children covered under
the scheme. He addressed the children and all stakeholders covered under scheme via video
conferencing. The event was organized in all 31 State Capitals and 557 Districts, where the children
covered under the schemes are residing.

The children along with their guardians/ Care givers and concerned District Magistrate of their
respective district joined the event from their District Head Quarters. The Prime Minister initiated
real time transfer of scholarship of Rs. 20,000/- to all children studying in class 1 to 12th digitally.
During the function, the children were handed over personalized letters from Hon’ble PM;
SnehPatra (PM CARES certificate); PM CARES for children scheme passbook; and Ayushman
Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) card.

Launch of GHAR - GO Home and Re-Unite (Portal for Restoration and Repatriation of Child)

On the occasion of World Children's Day 20th November 2022 a conference was held in Vigyan
Bhavan with all State Govt officials, State Commissions, all the Chairperson and Members of Child
Protection Committees from the districts all over the country; District Child Protection Units;
Chairperson and Members of Juvenile Justice Board etc. to launch the SoP for reuniting children,
who were traced and staying in Child Care Institutions in other District, State or from other countries.
The aforesaid SoP called ‘Protocols for Restoration and Repatriation of Children’ was launched by
the Union WCD Minister. A web portal to operationalise the protocol that ensures digital tracking and

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monitoring of children called GHAR (Go Home and Reunite) was also launched on the same day.
The programme also included Training Modules for Chairpersons and Members of Child Welfare
Committee.

Other Activities

‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’: Children Ideas, Rights & Nutrition:

The Ministry of Women and Child Development celebrated the International Women’s Day-Week
from 1st to 8th March 2022 as an ‘Iconic Week’ as a part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’. As part of
the week-long celebrations, the Ministry organized various events and social media campaigns
covering a variety of themes related to women’s safety and empowerment. The events were organised
in partnership with national and international organisations and experts, with active participation of
women and children, as well as personnel who work directly for their protection and empowerment.

During the week, WCD Minister Smt. Smriti Irani launched the new motto of NCPCR “भविष्यो रक्षति
रक्षति:”. Ministry also launched “Stree Manoraksha Project” in collaboration with NIMHANS
Bengaluru for psycho social training for staff and counsellors of One Stop Centres. A two-day
National Workshop was organized with State Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs)
on contemporary issues pertaining to Child Rights. During the week, on the occasion of International
Women’s day (08th March 2022), a campaign named ‘Kanya Shiksha Pravesh Utsav’ was launched in
collaboration with M/o Education and UNICEF India to bring back out of school adolescent girls of
erstwhile SAG scheme (11-14 years) to formal education and/or skilling system. The Hon’ble
President of India conferred Nari Shakti Puraskar-2020 and 2021 to 29 outstanding women achievers
in recognition of their exceptional work towards empowerment of women, at a special ceremony held
at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. The Prime Minister also interacted with the Nari Shakti Puraskar
Awardees.

Implementation of CPGRAMS version 7.0- CPGRAMS version 7.0 was implemented and
operationalized successfully in MWCD from the month of July, 2022.

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