A recent analysis reveals alarming stunting levels among children in anganwadis across India. Sixty-three districts in thirteen states and ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address civil servants on National Civil Services Day, April 21, 2025, and present awards for excellence ...

The Union Budget 2025-26 allocates Rs 26,889.69 crore to the Ministry of Women and Child Development, highlighting major funding for Saksha...

In the Union Budget 2025-26, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced an increase in the cost norms for nutritional support programs l...

To promote women-led development, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the Budget carries an allocation of more than R...

Interim Budget 2024 key announcements for common man: The government plans to boost infrastructure spending by 11% in the upcoming fiscal y...

In the 2024-25 budget, the Women and Child Development Ministry received an allocation of Rs 26,000 crore, marking a 2.52% increase from th...

"The Ministry is also doing collaboration with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications & Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) for geo-mapping ...

The deposit can be made in the name of a woman or a girl child. The maximum deposit amount has been kept at Rs 2 lakh and the scheme will h...

Not only are important nutrition programmes underfunded, but little funding is also not being used efficiently.

The Finance Minister, in her budget speech, also announced that two lakh anganwadis will be upgraded under the Saksham Anganwadis scheme.

Presenting the Budget, Sitharaman said recognising the importance of 'Nari Shakti' as the harbinger of India's bright future and for women-...

India is using technology and data to solve its acute malnutrition and hunger problems

According to the ministry, the government is merging the supplementary nutrition programme and Poshan Abhiyan to launch Mission POSHAN 2.0.

The exercise has resulted in a jump of 12.3% in cumulative budgetary allocation for centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) to 3.81 lakh crore in...

Out of Rs 24,435 crore, the highest amount has been allocated to the newly announced Saksham Anganwadi and Mission Poshan 2.0 scheme with R...

Out of Rs 24,435 crore allocated to the Women Child Development (WCD) Ministry, an amount of Rs 20,105 crore has been assigned to Saksham A...