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Internship with Ministry of Women and Child Development: Eligibility, role & how to apply
August 11, 2025 9:59 am
The Ministry stated that after completion of the internship, participants are expected to provide inputs for policy formulation. These inputs could take the form of empirical analysis, reports, or policy papers.
Govt invites proposals from states for setting up Nari Adalats
February 12, 2025 1:29 am
The Nari Adalat scheme under the WCD Ministry entails groups of women at the gram panchayat level resolving grievances of women who have been denied their rights.
Ministry to set up shelters for trafficked minors, young women in border states
July 05, 2023 3:13 am
The homes will provide the victims -- particularly for minors and young women -- with shelter, food, clothing, counselling, primary health facilities and other daily needs.
Failing them again: Beds remain empty as one-stop centres for rape survivors under Nirbhaya Fund remain crippled with low referral, official apathy
June 18, 2023 3:53 pm
Set up in phases across Maharashtra spending crores of rupees, most of the OSCs are now deserted with empty beds. Some have been turned into couple counselling centres.
Govt: education in anganwadis from this year
March 24, 2023 2:38 am
The anganwadi centres focus on battling maternal and child mortality and malnutrition.
‘Balsnehi’ buses, an initiative to rehabilitate street-children
December 28, 2022 2:25 pm
The project will have a tenure of six months and will be implemented in six districts -- Mumbai city, Mumbai suburbs, Thane, Nashik, Pune and Nagpur by district women and child development officers in collaboration with NGOs working in this sector.
In a first, Maharashtra app maps workers’ migration for portability of ICDS scheme
April 16, 2022 7:52 am
The state government's women and child development (WCD) department launched it as a pilot project in November last year in six districts with high tribal population including Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Amravati, Jalna, Palghar and Nandurbar.
WCD: Over 55% applications under scheme for Covid orphans duplicated
April 13, 2022 8:18 am
Civil society representatives have also protested for closing the entries in February without providing adequate publicity to the scheme.
Budget for WCD hiked, but no increase in funds for its flagship scheme
February 02, 2022 6:26 am
However, an expert pointed out that not only had the ministry’s flagship Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 programme not seen an increase in its budgetary allocation but the funds earmarked also failed to meet the pre-pandemic levels.
Over 33 lakh children in India malnourished, 17.7 lakh of them severely malnourished: Govt data
November 07, 2021 7:08 pm
Also, India has slipped to the 101st position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2021 of 116 countries, from its 2020 position of 94th and is behind its neighbours Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.
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