MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

•  48.1. INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
• • To prevent and reduce young child under-nutrition (% underweight children 0-3 years) by 10 percentage points,
• • to lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child
• • to reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout;
• • to achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development; and
• • to enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education.
• • It is a centrally sponsored scheme.
• • Engaging anganwadi worker and helper from the same village
• • It is a universal and self-selecting scheme i.e. anyone can visit to the Aanganwadi centre and enroll these services.
• • Package of six services i.e.
• o Supplementary nutrition programme
• o Pre-school education
• o Health and nutrition education,
• o Immunization,
• o Health check up and
• o Referral services to the beneficiaries
• Sub-Schemes under Umbrella ICDS
• • Anganwadi Services – It is for holistic development of children under the age of 6 year and pregnant and lactating women.
• • Child Protection Services – It aims to provide safe and secure environment for children in conflict with law and children in need of care and protection and reduce vulnerabilities.
• • National Crèche Services –It aims to provide a safe place for children of working mothers while they are at workthus, empowering them to take up employment.
• • Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana
• • Poshan Abhiyan
• • Scheme for Adolescent Girls
• 48.1.1. NATIONAL NUTRITION MISSION (POSHAN ABHIYAAN)
• • National Nutrition Strategy laid down the roadmap to launch National Nutrition Mission.
• • It is a flagship programme which would be executed with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) as the nodal ministry along with other ministries like Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare etc. which ensures convergence with various programmes.
• • The mission has a target to reduce stunting, undernutrition, and low birth weight by 2 per cent per annum, and anaemia among children (of 6-59 months) and women/adolescent girls (15-49 years) by 3 per cent annually.
• • It would also strive to achieve reduction in stunting from 38.4% (NFHS-4) to 25% by 2022 (Mission 25 by 2022).
• • It will be implemented in three phases: 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. 315 ‘high burden’ are to be covered in the first phase, 235 in next and the remaining in last.
• • NNM as an apex body will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition related interventions through the life cycle concept.
• • Mapping of various schemes contributing under malnutrition
• • ICT (Information and Communication Technology) based real time monitoring system.
• • Incentivizing states/UTs for meeting targets
• • Incentivizing Anganwadi Workers (AWW) for using IT based tools and eliminating the need for registers
• • Measurement of height of children at Anganwadi Centres
• • Social Audits to track the health progress of the children
• • Setting-up Nutrition Resource Centres
• 48.1.2. BHARTIYA POSHAN KRISHI KOSH
• Development of a an Agro Food Atlas and Documentation of promising practices for Jan-Andolan for POSHAN Abhiyaan.
• • It was launched by Ministry of Women and Child Development along with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
• • The Agro-Food Atlas also known as POSHAN Atlas is to act as a repository of diverse crops across 127 agro-climatic zones of the country having three parts- crops currently being grown, agro-ecological conditions (soil, organic carbon content, ground water availability etc) and guidance on how a greater diversity of crops could be encouraged in a particular district or block to promote dietary diversity and nutrition.
• • The project includes diverse data sources like National Sample Survey, Agri-Census, Soil Health Cards, ISRO’s Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWiFS) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-Radio meter
• • The project also documents social, behavioral and cultural practices that promote and reinforce healthy dietary behaviors.
• 48.1.3. SCHEME FOR ADOLESCENT GIRLS (SAG)
• • 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.
• • To educate, skill and make them ready for life’s challenges.
• Out of school girls in the age group of 11-14 years.
• • Nutrition provision
• • Iron and folic acid (IFA) supplementation
• • Health check-up and referral services
• • Nutrition & health education (NHE)
• • Counseling/guidance on family welfare, ARSH, child care practices and home management.
• • 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.
• • The scheme will be implemented through existing Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).
• Kishori Health Cards
• • States are maintaining Kishori Health Cards for Adolescent Girls in Angawadi Centres (AWCs) to record the information about the weight, height, Body Mass Index (BMI) along with other services provided under the scheme.
• • The details of achievements/outcomes made under SAG are marked on Kishori Health Card and the card also carries important milestones of Adolescent Girls’ life including mainstreaming them into the schools.
• 48.1.4. PRADHAN MANTRI MATRU VANDANA YOJANA
• • Providing partial compensation for the wage loss in terms of cash incentives so that the woman can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first living child.
• • The cash incentive provided would lead to improved health seeking behaviour amongst the Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW& LM).
• • All Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW&LM), excluding PW&LM who are in regular employment with the Central Government or the State Governments or PSUs or those who are in receipt of similar benefits under any law for the time being in force.
• • for first child in family.
• • Cash incentive of Rs 5000 in three instalments i.e. 1st instalment of Rs 1000/ - on early registration of pregnancy, 2nd instalment of Rs 2000/ - after six months of pregnancy and 3rd instalment of Rs 2000/ - after child birth is registered and the child has received the first cycle of BCG, OPV, DPT and Hepatitis - B, or its equivalent/ substitute.
• • The eligible beneficiaries would receive the incentive given under the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) for Institutional delivery and the incentive received under JSY would be accounted towards maternity benefits so that on an average a woman gets Rs 6000 / -
• • Universal screening of pregnant women for Anaemia and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation, Calcium supplementation in pregnancy, Deworming in pregnancy.
• 48.2. BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO (BBBP)
• Joint Initiative of Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Human Resource Development.
• • Prevent gender biased sex selective elimination
• • Ensure survival & protection of the girl child
• • Ensure education and participation of the girl child.
• • Two components under the scheme include-
• o Advocacy and Media Campaign on Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao
• o Multi-Sectoral intervention in selected Gender Critical Districts worse on CSR
• • A sustained social mobilization and communication campaign to create equal value for the girl child & promote her education.
• • Enable inter-sectoral and inter-institutional convergence at district/block/grassroot levels.
• • It’s a Pan India Scheme, with 100% assistance from Central Government
• • It has no provision for individual cash transfer. Grant in Aid is released by the MoW&CD, directly to the District Collector/District Magistrate of the selected district
• • The scheme will be implemented through ICDS platform/Mahila Shakti Kendras/ DLCW at district, block and village level in convergence with Health, Education and Panchayati Raj Ministry
• Monitorable targets include-
• • Improve the Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) in selected gender critical districts by 2 points in a year.
• • Reduce Gender differentials in Under Five Child Mortality Rate from 7 points in 2014(latest available SRS report) to 1.5 points per year
• • At least 1.5 % increase per year of Institutional Deliveries.
• • Increase enrolment of girls in secondary education to 82% by 2018-19.
• • Provide functional toilet for girls in every school in selected districts.
• • Improve the Nutrition status of girls - by reducing number of underweight and anemic girls under 5 years of age.
• • Ensure universalization of ICDS
• • Promote a protective environment for Girl Children through implementation of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012.
• • Train Elected Representatives/ Grassroot functionaries as Community Champions to mobilize communities to improve CSR and promote Girl’s education.
• • Monitoring of the BBBP Scheme would be at following levels at National level, State level, District level, Block Level, and Gram Panchayat/Ward Level.
• Digital Guddi-Gudda Board’ is a platform for dissemination of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) Material on BBBP and to update monthly birth statistics.
• It has been adopted as a Best Practice under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme by The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development.
• 48.2.1. SUKANYA SAMRUDDHI YOJANA
• Ministry of Women and Child Development and Ministry of Finance
• • To motivate parents to open an account in the name of a girl child and for her welfare to deposit maximum of their savings upto the prescribed limits.
• • To meet the requirement of higher education expense for girls.
• • It would prevent early marriages of girl and ensure equitable share to a girl child in resources and savings of a family in which she is generally discriminated as against a male child.
• • A small savings scheme, it is a part of BBBP. Rate of interest is higher than normal savings rate offered by banks (currently it is 8.4%).
• • The Sukanya Samriddhi Account (SSA) is opened to facilitate their education and marriage expenses with a minimum deposit of Rs 250 and a maximum of Rs 1.5 lakh.
• • A parent or legal guardian can open an account in the name of the girl child until she attains the age of ten years.
• • She can withdraw 50% of the money after reaching age of 18 e.g. for higher education and marriage. 18 years deadline will also help preventing child-marriages.
• • The annual deposit (contributions) qualifies for Section 80C benefit and the maturity benefits are non-taxable.
• • Tenure of the Deposit: 21 years from the date of opening of the account
• • Deposits in SSY account can be made till the completion of 15 years from the date of opening the account.
• • Transfer of account: The account may be transferred anywhere in India if the girl child in whose name the account stands shifts to a place other than the city or locality where the account stands
• • Recently some modifications were made in the rules of the scheme:
• o Higher interest rate for default accounts: earlier default accounts (did not maintain minimum payment of 250 annually) earned only post office bank interest rate. However, now, such accounts will continue to earn applicable higher rate.
• o Premature closure of account: along with earlier grounds of death of girl or change of residency, new rules add compassionate grounds as well including medical emergency or treatment of girl child.
• o Operation of account: earlier, the girl could operate the SSA after she turns 10. However, now it is increased to 18 and till then only guardian will operate it
• o Opening of accounts for more than two girl children: earlier, guardian had to submit medical certificate. Now, s/he has to submit birth certificates and affidavit
•  48.3. UJJAWALA SCHEME
• For prevention of trafficking and rescue, rehabilitation, re-integration and repatriation of cross-border victims to their country of origin
• Rehabilitative centres are given financial support for providing shelter and basic amenities such as:
• • Food, clothing, medical care, legal aid;
• • Education in the case the victims are children,
• • Vocational training and income generation activities to provide the victims with alternate livelihood option. 
• 48.4. RAJIV GANDHI SCHEME FOR EMPOWERMENT OF ADOLESCENT BOYS-SAKSHAM
• All-round development of Adolescent Boys (11-18 yrs) to make them self-reliant, gender-sensitive and aware citizens.
• • Address the health needs- physical, mental and emotional- of boys and promote awareness of hygiene, nutrition and sexual and reproductive health.
• • Provide vocational skills to those aged above 16 years through the National Skill Development Program (NSDP)
• • The structures under the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) will be utilised as a platform. This will be supported by a dedicated Saksham unit/cell created at the Centre and in the State, district and block levels. 
• 48.5. SWADHAR GREH SCHEME
• To setup Swadhar Greh in every district with capacity of 30 women:
• • To cater to the primary need of shelter, food, clothing, medical treatment and care of the women in distress and who are without any social and economic support.
• • To provide them with legal aid and guidance to enable them to take steps for their readjustment in family/society.
• • To rehabilitate them economically and emotionally
• • To enable them to start their life afresh with dignity and conviction.
• Women above 18 years of age in following category:
• • Women who are deserted, survivors of natural disasters, Women prisoners released from jail, victims of domestic violence, family tension or discord, Trafficked women/girls rescued or runaway from brothels or other places.
• • Children accompanying women in the above categories would also be allowed to stay in the Swadhar Greh with their mothers (Girls upto age of 18 and boys upto age of 8).
• • Any government or civil society organization could seek assistance under the Scheme.
• • The Objectives would be pursued adopting the following strategies-
• o Temporary residential accommodation with the provision of food, clothing, medical facilities etc.
• o Vocational and skill up gradation trainings for economic rehabilitation of such women
• o Counseling, awareness generation and behavioral trainings
• o Legal aid and Guidance
• o Counseling through telephone
• Swadhar Greh is a DBT compliant scheme.
• 48.6. GENDER CHAMPIONS SCHEME
• It’s a collaborative effort of Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) and Ministry of Human Resource Development.
• To make young boys and girls gender sensitive and create positive social norms which value the rights of women and girls.
• Gender Champions can be both boys and girls above 16 years of age enrolled in educational institutions.
• • Gender Champions are envisaged as responsible leaders who will facilitate an enabling environment within their schools/colleges/ academic institutions where girls are treated with dignity and respect.
• • Scheme will strengthen the potential of young girls and boys to advocate for gender equality and monitor progress towards gender justice. 
• 48.7. SAKHI ONE STOP CENTRES
• • To provide integrated support and assistance to women affected by violence, in private and public spaces, within the family, community and at the workplace under one roof.
• • To facilitate immediate, emergency and non - emergency access to a range of services including medical, legal, psychological and counselling support under one roof to fight against any forms of violence against women.
• • All women including girls below 18 years of age affected by violence, irrespective of caste, class, religion, region, sexual orientation or marital status.
• • It’s funded through Nirbhaya Fund.
• • The Central Government provide 100% financial assistance to the State Government /UT Administrations under the Scheme.
• • Implementing Agency: State Government/ UT Administration.
• • These are 24×7 centres and any woman in an adverse situation or someone on her behalf can seek help from the Sakhi Centre by dialling Women’s toll-free helpline 181. 
• 48.8. OTHER SCHEMES
• Mahila E-Haat
• • It’s an online marketing platform for women.
• • Beneficiary- All Indian women citizens more than 18 years of age and women SHGs.
• • It’s an initiative for meeting aspirations and need of women entrepreneurs which will leverage technology for showcasing products made/manufactured/sold by women entrepreneurs
• • It has been set up with an investment of under Rs.10 lakh from the Rashtriya Mahila Kosh—an autonomous body under the WCD ministry, registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 for the socio-economic empowerment of women
• Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra (PMMSK)
• • It is a new sub-scheme under the Umbrella Scheme Pradhan Mantri Mahila ShashaktikaranYojana (PMMSY) approved for implementation during 2017-18 upto 2019-20.
• • It aims to provides an interface for rural women to approach the government for availing their entitlements and for empowering them through training and capacity building.
• • The scheme has been approved for implementation in 23 States /UTs.
• • PMMSK Block level initiatives: Under it, community engagement is envisioned in 117 most backward districts through Student Volunteers.
• • It will provide an opportunity to Student Volunteers to participate in the nation development process and bring gender equality in backward district.
• NARI portal
• • Due to scattered information on various women centric schemes/legislations there is a lack of awareness among people regarding the same.
• • To address this problem government launched NARI portal as a single window access to information and services on various women centric schemes/legislations
• E-Samvaad Portal
• • It is a platform for NGOs and civil society to interact with the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) by providing their feedback, suggestions, put up grievances, share best practices etc.
• Khoya Paya portal
• • It’s a citizen-based website to exchange information on missing and found children.
• • It has been developed by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY).
• Jan Sampark program
• • Aim: To enable the public to have interaction with its officials and staff for seeking information related to Adoption as well as flagging their concerns.
• • Launched by Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) of the Ministry of Women & Child Development
• • It will serve as platform for counselling and motivating Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) to go for adopting older children.
• Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP)
• • 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.
• Mahila Police Volunteer scheme
• • A joint initiative of Ministry of Women & Child Development and Ministry of Home Affairs.
• • Act as a link between police and community to help women in distress.
• Suposhit Maa Abhiyan
• • Objective: Keeping newborn and pregnant women healthy.
• • Under this Abhiyan, 1,000 women would be given food items for one month. At the same time, the health of the child, including medical examination, blood tests, medicines, delivery, would be covered.
• • The identified women would be required to register on a website for adoption. Only one pregnant woman would be adopted from a family.