Sonia Gandhi highlighted in Rajya Sabha that the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana is underfunded and benefits are not reaching entitled ...

Labour and employment secretary Sumita Dawra urges careful analysis of government insurance and pension schemes for gig and platform worker...

Uttarakhand is launching a 15-day special campaign from October 4 to register pregnant women in the unorganized sector, including construct...

Modi said that the struggles faced by BJP workers in Kerala and the eagerness shown by them were beyond compare and interacting with such "...

D P Vats (BJP) said the country "is in permanent election mode" with some or the other elections happening in parts of the country. This, h...

To achieve the next set of milestones, Garg says the focus will be on delivering services to people in areas that are hard to reach. But st...

ET gathers that the NHRC has called a meeting of its Core Group on Right to Food and Nutrition and has sought details from various ministri...

In states like Tamil Nadu and Odisha, maternity benefits are relatively superior, both in terms of what they offer, and the number of benef...

The Child Protection Services programme under the Integrated Child Development Services was increased to Rs 1,500 crore from Rs 925 crore.

The 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...

The non-profit organisation CDFI conceptualised, designed and implemented the PMMVY-CAS (Common Application Software) System through which ...

According to senior officials at the Women and Child Development ministry, after ‘initial’ hiccups’ all states have now come on-board.

The court also directed the government to widely publicise the benefits of such schemes and the requirements for registration as many women...

Under the scheme, eligible beneficiaries get Rs 5,000 and the remaining cash incentive of Rs 1,000 for maternity benefit is given under the...

An 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.

The finance ministry made a modest allocation of Rs 2,700 crore for maternity benefits in the 2017-18 Budget – a fraction of what is requir...

Total beneficiaries of the scheme are estimated to be 51.6 lakh but only 2.1 lakh have been registered with the government as per official ...