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Sonia Gandhi alleges government’s maternity benefits underfunded, not being disbursed efficientlySonia Gandhi highlighted in Rajya Sabha that the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana is underfunded and benefits are not reaching entitled ...26 Mar, 2025, 11.11 PM IST- Govt to consider social security option under existing schemes for gig, platform workersLabour and employment secretary Sumita Dawra urges careful analysis of government insurance and pension schemes for gig and platform worker...30 Dec, 2024, 10.56 PM IST
- Lok Sabha polls: PM Modi interacts with BJP workers in KeralaModi said that the struggles faced by BJP workers in Kerala and the eagerness shown by them were beyond compare and interacting with such "...30 Mar, 2024, 08.57 PM IST
- PM Modi to launch Rs 24,000 crore scheme for empowerment of tribals on Nov 15These tribes stay in scattered, remote and inaccessible habitations, often in forest areas and hence the mission has been planned to satura...13 Nov, 2023, 06.43 PM IST
- WCD ministry classifies major programmes under 3 umbrella schemes for better implementationAccording to the ministry, the government is merging the supplementary nutrition programme and Poshan Abhiyan to launch Mission POSHAN 2.0.08 Mar, 2021, 02.29 PM IST
- Committed to tackling challenges of undernourishment, child mortality: Rao Inderjit Singh"The government of India is committed towards tackling the challenges through some of the recent initiatives of various like Swasthaya Bhar...28 Nov, 2019, 04.29 PM IST
- Union Budget 2019: What women got from Sitharaman's budgetModi government had initiated various measures for women during its first five years, as had Jaitley in his budgets.05 Jul, 2019, 01.19 PM IST
- Survey to evaluate ‘Beti Bachao Beti Padhao’ progressET has learnt that the Women and Child Development (WCD) ministry, headed by Smriti Irani, is looking at ways to strengthen the implementat...12 Jun, 2019, 11.43 PM IST
- Number of women voters increases but still not 50%Number rises from 47% (2014) to about 48% (2019); women MPs in 16th Lok Sabha: 11.2%12 Mar, 2019, 06.57 AM IST
- Government to conduct survey on maternity benefit scheme to find its efficacyThe scheme, which aims to provide partial compensation for wage loss to women during pregnancy and a cash incentive of Rs 6,000, has so far...28 Jan, 2019, 08.21 AM IST
- Government transfers over Rs 1,600 crore to 48.5 lakh mothers under PMMVYThe non-profit organisation CDFI conceptualised, designed and implemented the PMMVY-CAS (Common Application Software) System through which ...23 Nov, 2018, 08.51 PM IST
- NCW to take stock of central govt schemes for womenAccording to chairperson Rekha Sharma, the commission has so far surveyed poll bound Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and the state of Bihar.08 Nov, 2018, 07.13 AM IST
- Aadhaar verdict: Ministries read the fine print to assess impactSeveral ministries were poring over the fine print of the SC judgment to assess its implications for schemes that had already been linked t...27 Sep, 2018, 08.40 AM IST
- After a slow start, all states & UTs get on board for PM’s maternity benefit schemeAccording to senior officials at the Women and Child Development ministry, after ‘initial’ hiccups’ all states have now come on-board.22 Sep, 2018, 09.26 AM IST
- Over 17 lakh beneficiaries linked with PMMVY: GovtUnder the scheme, eligible beneficiaries get Rs 5,000 and the remaining cash incentive of Rs 1,000 for maternity benefit is given under the...16 Mar, 2018, 05.04 PM IST
- Maternity benefit scheme unlikely to get boost in Budget 2018An initial amount of Rs 2,700 crore was announced for the scheme during Union Budget 2017 but it was later revised to Rs 2,500 crore.29 Jan, 2018, 06.11 PM IST
- Top economists write to FM on delay in roll-out of maternity benefit programmeThe letter also demands that the Centre's contribution to old-age pensions under the National Old Age Pension Scheme should be raised from ...22 Dec, 2017, 06.01 PM IST
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