Ministry of Women and Child Development

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 Focus Areas
Addressing the needs of over 70% of people
• To empower women to live with confidence, dignity and economic &
educational abilities

• To nurture children to develop to their full potential, make them safe

and healthy in protective environments

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 Our Commitment
Children
• Child survival, development,
protection & participation
• Nutrition
• Addressing trafficking, missing
children
• Combating Sexual abuse
• Tackling juvenile crime
• Strengthening child protection
systems
Women
• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao:
improving the Child Sex Ratio
• Safety & Security
• Health: Nutrition & Pregnancy
• Skill development
• Removing Gender disparity
• Restructuring RMK
• Empowerment
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Flagship Initiatives since June 2014

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

National Mission to address mal-
nutrition

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 Defining the Problem
Child Sex Ratio (CSR) is measured as number of girls in
age group of (0-6 years) per thousand boys
- A powerful indicator of Social Response & Attitude towards
Girl Child
- Constantly declining since 1961; From 927 in 2001 to 918 in
2011 (Census 2011)

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 Decline in Child Sex Ratio

2001

2011

Source: RGI 7
Focus on 100 Low CSR Districts

2001

2011

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 MULTI-SECTORAL INTERVENTIONS
•Training of stakeholders
•Community Mobilization
& Sensitization
•Gender Champions
•Reward & recognition of
institutions & frontline
workers
•Registration of pregnancies in
first trimester in AWCs
•Improved access to:
 ICDS: community centres &
toilets
 SABLA
M-WCD  Creche
 Working Women’s Hostels
 Effective implementation of
POCSO & other Acts

M-HFW M-HRD

•Monitor implementation of PC&PNDT

•Universal enrolment of girls
•Increased institutional deliveries
• Decreased drop-out rate
•Registration of births
•Girl friendly school
•Strengthening PNDT Cells
•Strict implementation of RTE
•Setting up Monitoring Committees
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• Logo designed through
crowd sourcing
• Over 3100 entries received
• Winner of the competition
is Shri. Raghvendra from
Hyderabad
• Cash award of Rs 50,000
and a scroll will be given
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URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/BetiBachaoBetiPadhao

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 National Nutrition Mission
• Build on initiatives of States, encourage local innovations
• Involve panchayats & communities, reward & recognise malnutrition
free panchayats
• Life Cycle approach; focus on pregnant & lactating mothers, children
under 3 years and adolescent girls
• Converge district implementation plans from 2015 – Health, ICDS,
Swach Bharat, Matritva Sahyog Yojana, Scheme for Adolescent Girls
• Begin implementation with joint village contact programme
• Address under-nutrition through multi-sectoral approach
• Integrate nutrition in health monitoring & tracking systems

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Integrated Child Development Services
• Community outreach in 13.42 lakh habitations
• 24.5 lakh workers (AW workers, helpers), local community women
• Health, nutrition & early learning for 8.5 crore children (0-6 years)
• Health & nutrition to 1.96 crore Pregnant & Lactating Mothers

• Decentralisation: State Implementation Plans & progressively District

Implementation Plans
• Invest in Anganwadi Workers: Infrastructure, Training, IT, incentives,
vacancies
• Monitoring system – IT based solutions
• Toll-free Helpline
• In the next 5 years, malnutrition to be brought down to 30% and 100%
Swach Bharat Anganwadi Centres to be achieved
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Child Protection
Integrated Child Protection Scheme
• Through public-private partnership and revised recently
with enhanced financial norms. Provides funds to States
for implementation of JJ Act, and for running of Child
Care Institutions
• Supports Childline services in 282 locations
• National Portal for missing and found children: Track
Child

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 CHILDLINE
 Emergency Outreach Service (1098) for children in distress

 Available in 282 locations through 543 partner organisations across India

 Calls received last year (2013-14) - 38,22,081

 Kind of calls received:

medical help (11%)
emotional support and guidance(13%)
protection from abuse (26%)
shelter (13%)
missing children (4%)
restoration (7%)
children in conflict with law (0.4%), etc.
 Operated through single centralized call centre at Mumbai catering to North
and West zone
 Three Centres for South & East zone with state of art technology being set 17up
CHILDLINE

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 TRACKCHILD
 National Portal to address issue of missing children with Two
Modules:
Module for Missing children-relevant for police
Module for Found Children-relevant for child care institutions

 27,092 children matched since 2008

 Data of:
 6,410 out of 17,046 police stations uploaded
 1,30,774 missing children uploaded by 6,410 police stations
 2,626 out of 4,707 child care institutions uploaded
 1,63,845 children uploaded by child care institutions

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TRACKCHILD

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 ADOPTION
• Simplification of Adoption Rules
• Redesigning the business process and
adoption related website
• Inspection of Children Homes
• Foster Care

June - August
1800
1600
1400 1650
1200
1000 Adoptio…
1100
800
600
400
200
0

2013 2014
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 FOSTER CARE
 Family based non-institutional care for children deprived of
parental care

 Children live with extended family, friend or member of

community for temporary or extended period

 Provision of Rs 10 lakh per district provided under ICPS as

District Sponsorship and Foster Care fund

 Financial support of Rs.2000 provided per child per month

 Guidelines on implementing foster care program being

finalized

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Women Safety
 Nirbhaya Cetres
 Women Helpline, 181, to have national coverage
 SWADHAR Scheme for establishing short stay homes
in all districts for destitute women
 UJJWALA Scheme for trafficked women: shelters with
medical, counselling, legal and rehab facilities.
 Working Women Hostels: 294 districts have hostels
accommodating 68,400 women, balance 353 districts
to be covered.

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One Stop Centre : Nirbhaya Centre
 To provide an immediate response & assistance to women
affected by violence
 To be established in each district headquarter in 660
locations across the country in a phased manner
 Centres will be integrated with the Women Helpline (181)
which is being universalized and will be linked with other
existing helplines
 Package of Services - medical aid, police assistance, legal
aid & counseling, psycho-social counseling, and temporary
shelter
 Will be overseen by the Local Management Committee
headed by the DC
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Women Empowerment
 National Women’s Policy, 2001 to be revised
 Review of family laws by High Level Committee, report
submitted, expert consultations have commenced
 Revamp Rashtriya Mahila Kosh, synergise with Bharatiya
Mahila Bank
 Linking skills with employment, through the STEP
programme, and in partnership with the private sector
 Awards for exceptional contributions by women, at district
and State levels, to be presented on International Women’s
Day
 Extending PM’s initiative of “Make in India”: Linking
women artisans to the market through exclusive “Women
of India” stores

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 MWCD & J&K Relief Operations
 Ministry has provided 214 metric
tones(mts) of ready to eat food for the
flood victims in J&K
 Spare capacity of ICDS take home ration
manufacturers tapped for this
 Food packets airlifted from Hyderabad by
IAF
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THANK YOU

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