Tag: Women And Child Development

New Delhi: Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi today launched a web portal, NARI, which will provide information on all government schemes for women. Users can log on to www.nari.nic.in to access information on different programmes offered by various state governments as well as the Centre, the minister told reporters. The NARI […]

New Delhi: Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Wednesday announced that she would be working with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports to empower women. “Sports can play a vital role in transforming and empowering lives of women and girls. Today, we recognise it as a platform for girls to demonstrate their […]

New Delhi: The central government announced a Nirbhaya Fund with a corpus of Rs 3,000 crore in 2013 to support initiatives towards ensuring safety of women, following nationwide outrage after the December 2012 gang rape. But since then, there hasn’t been any information from the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry about utilisation of the […]

Dehradun: Uttarakhand has been adjudged as one of the country’s five best performing states in ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’, a central scheme aimed at addressing declining child sex ratio and issues of women empowerment. The state will be felicitated, along with the other selected states, in recognition of its consistent performance in respect of sex […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 82 children from Odisha, including 21 girls, have been rescued from other states under the ‘Operation Paree-III’ initiative, an official said here on Wednesday. Under ‘Operation Paree-III’, a total of eight teams comprising officers of Odisha Police and officials of the Women and Child Development (WCD) Department had gone to various […]