The government has launched a national protocol to provide for training of anganwadi workers to track and help children with disabilities. ...

“Given the massive learning loss across the grades due to Covid, expanding the scope of foundational learning and numeracy (FLN) to include...

ET has learned that after many rounds of discussions, the empowered groups drew up guidelines for the manpower scale-up that can be adopted...

ASHA workers, anganwadi workers, teachers at local schools, postal workers and other civil servants present in rural areas must be trained ...

ET learns that the Cabinet Secretary had convened a meeting with secretaries of over 20 stakeholder ministries, Niti Aayog and ICMR officia...

Covid-19 time seems the worst moment ever to launch a sweeping programme to transform education for an under-25 population of 66 crore. Yet...

According to the transcript of the meeting of the National Council of Nutritional Challenges, NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said fiv...

Officials at the Women and Child Ministry said that the government is specifically looking at collaborations with corporates and NGOs in th...

For children between 0-6 years of age, it has called for increasing budgetary allocation for Integrated Child Development Services scheme.

The move is aimed to front line health workers in improving maternal, neonatal and child health.

Maneka Gandhi urged members of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on Women and Child Development to persuade their state governments ...

Melinda, the co-chair of the foundation, met Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi today in this regard.

The government today said it would utilise Rs 3,000 crore accumulated under the Nirbhaya Fund for setting up one-stop crisis centres for wo...

Bihar, Chattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand are among the ten states having large number of cases of malnutrition.

Around seven lakh people from the district work in textile mills and diamond-cutting factories in Surat and Ahmedabad, said a survey.

With high incidence of malnutrition being reported from the Vidisha district in Madhya Pradesh, the Indira Gandhi Open University has launc...

As the nation celebrates Teachers’ Day, it would be appropriate to spare a thought for our most precious teachers: the anganwadi workers wh...