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Gender budgeting revamp on the cards to better log spends on women schemesIndia is considering a revamp of its annual budget to improve tracking of spending on gender equality and women's empowerment. The focus wi...20 Sep, 2023, 06.58 AM IST- Govt in process of geo-tagging all anganwadis"The Ministry is also doing collaboration with Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications & Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) for geo-mapping ...28 Mar, 2023, 07.59 PM IST
- Women and Child Development Ministry's budget hiked by 16 per centOut 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...01 Feb, 2021, 04.53 PM IST
- Mission Poshan 2.0 launched in Budget to improve nutritional outcomesOut 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...01 Feb, 2021, 03.34 PM IST
- Budget 2019: WCD Ministry's budget hiked by 17%, social services sector gets major boostThe total amount allocated for the social services sector, which includes nutrition and social security and welfare, was enhanced from Rs 2...05 Jul, 2019, 04.15 PM IST
- WCD Ministry's budget hiked by 20%, allocation for maternity programme increased two foldThe Child Protection Services programme under the Integrated Child Development Services was increased to Rs 1,500 crore from Rs 925 crore.01 Feb, 2019, 05.17 PM IST
- Budget 2018: Over three-fold increase in National Nutrition Mission fundsThis was on expected lines as the Union Cabinet had, in December last year, approved Rs 9,046 crore for the NNM for a period of three years...01 Feb, 2018, 06.07 PM IST
- NITI Aayog moots Aadhaar-linked tracking of malnutritionThe meeting was on challenges of malnutrition and the deliberation focused on breaking the cycle of under-nutrition, disease, infections an...27 Jun, 2016, 09.37 PM IST
- Got everything we asked for: WCD Ministry on Budget 2016Setting up of One-Stop Centres for providing safety to women affected by violence is being significantly expanded in 2016-17, Maneka Gandhi...03 Mar, 2016, 11.00 PM IST
- Government forms panel to approve schemes under Nirbhaya FundThe government in April this year has made the WCD Ministry the nodal agency for the Nirbhaya Fund in place of Home Ministry.04 Nov, 2015, 11.10 PM IST
- Nirbhaya Fund of Rs 1,273 crore lying unusedTwo proposals have been approved so far under the fund by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.24 Apr, 2015, 11.23 PM IST
- Women and Child Development Ministry replaces MHA as nodal agency for Nirbhaya FundThe Nirbhaya fund has a total of Rs 3,000 cr as Rs 1,000 cr each was allocated to it in 2014-15 and 2015-16 on top of Rs 1,000 cr initial c...05 Apr, 2015, 10.44 AM IST
- Government issues guidelines on utilisation of Nirbhaya FundThe Nirbhaya Fund has a corpus of Rs 3,000 crore, including an additional Rs 1,000 crore allocation made in Budget for 2015-16.01 Apr, 2015, 09.37 PM IST
- 27,000 new anganwadi centres a major achievement: UPAThe UPA-II highlighted the opening of 27,000 new Anganwadi centres under the Integrated Child Development Scheme in its report card to the ...22 May, 2013, 10.03 PM IST
- Budget 2013: Chidambaram announces measures for women, child & tribal welfareFM in his budget 2013 speech voiced his intention of allocating Rs 17700 crore for child and women welfare.28 Feb, 2013, 11.52 AM IST
- Demands for safety of women grew louder in 2012Tirath created a flutter by saying that men should allocate a portion of their salaries as a honorarium in return of the work done by women...02 Jan, 2013, 03.35 PM IST
- Homemakers may get salary from husbandsThe govt is mulling a proposal, which would make it mandatory for men to share a certain percentage of their income with their wives who st...10 Sep, 2012, 04.56 AM IST
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