Senior Congress MP Digvijay Singh announced that the Parliamentary Standing Committee has approved recommendations for doubling Anganwadi w...

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

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

There will be six awards under the innovations category -- two awards each for the central-, state- and district-level initiatives. The awa...

The Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Administration has undergone restructuring to acknowledge the performance of civil ser...

Keeping in view the health of the women in terms of hygiene, Mandaviya said under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP...

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

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 government of India is committed towards tackling the challenges through some of the recent initiatives of various like Swasthaya Bhar...

Modi government had initiated various measures for women during its first five years, as had Jaitley in his budgets.

Sources in the ministry said the budget allocation for the ministry is likely to be Rs 29,000 crore the highest till now.

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.

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 letter also demands that the Centre's contribution to old-age pensions under the National Old Age Pension Scheme should be raised from ...