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National mission for empowerment of women to be launched soon: Tirath | Union Minister of State for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath on Monday said that the government is proposing to set up a national mission for
the empowerment of women. The mission aims to ensure empowerment of women in all
spheres - economic, social, political and legal. Addressing Social Editors' Conference
in the national capital, Tirath highlighted the measures being taken to strengthen
legal provisions for the welfare of women. "The Ministry has set up an Inter Ministerial
Group to finalize the proposed Bill for Prevention of Sexual Harassment at Workplace
and a proposal for restructuring and expansion of Rashtriya Mahila Kosh and the
premier micro credit agency for women to raise its corpus to Rs. 500 crore from
the present Rs. 100 crore is under active consideration," Tirath said. She further
said that the Ministry has formulated a new scheme, namely, "Indira Gandhi Matritva
Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY)", which will be piloted in 95 districts where conditional
cash transfer would be given to pregnant woman and lactating mothers so that she
enhances maternal care and nutrition. In order to address the issue of under nutrition
and nutrition deficiency in children, Tirath said that a new scheme the integrated
child development scheme (ICDS), aimed at improving the well being of children
in difficult circumstances including children in conflict with law and children
in need of care and protection, has been launched. She said that 7073 ICDS projects
have been sanctioned under which 14 lakhs anganwadi centres would be functioning
in the long run. "The new scheme will be primarily implemented through the State
Governments and States will play important role in effective implementation of
the scheme," Tirath said. Six State Governments, including Andhra Pradesh, Orissa,
Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur have already signed the MOU
with the Ministry for implementation of this scheme. The Minister added that State
Governments of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Goa have also communicated their
willingness to sign the MOU with the Ministry, while the proposal from the remaining
State Governments are awaited. |
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