Women and Child Welfare

Often due to a calamity, a woman has to become widow. The life of woman gets disturbed once her husband dies as she is usually dependent on her husband financially and emotionally. For development and encouragement of re-marriages of widow women Uttar Pradesh government has come up this scheme: Eligibility: ...

A pension may be a “defined benefit plan” where a fixed sum is paid regularly to a person, or a “defined contribution plan” under which a fixed sum is invested and then becomes available at retirement age. Uttar Pradesh Govt. has started “Rani Lakshmi Bai Pension Yojana” under which financial ...

Janani Sishu Karyakaram launched by the government of India on 1st June, 2011, with the motive to provide health facilities to the women. The main aim of this scheme is to motivate pregnant women who still prefer to deliver at their homes  to take the benefits of this scheme. Eligibility: ...

With the motive to provide all the facilities to the mother and new born baby, the government of Assam launched the Mamata Scheme. It launched in the year, 2010. Eligibility: The pregnant women shall have to be admitted in government hospital They should have to stay in the hospital at ...

In last one decade, Gujarat has undergone and witnessed tremendous growth and has undisputedly emerged as Nation’s Growth Engine and with so many new initiatives it has emerged as a guiding light for other states. In the field of health and nutrition also Gujarat has undertaken many new initiatives. Gujarat ...

    With the aim to provide special financial assistance to the girl child, the government of Assam launched the Majoni Scheme in 3rd December 2013.Majoni scheme is executed by the National Rural health Mission. Eligibility: One women get facility for two girl child The birth must be in governmental ...

The word Anganwadi means “courtyard shelter” in Indian languages. They were started by the Indian government in 1975 as part of the Integrated Child Development Services program to combat child hunger and malnutrition. A typical Anganwadi centre provides basic health care in Indian villages. Gujarat is the first state of India providing an ...

Anganwadi is a government sponsored child-care and mother-care center in India. It caters to children in the 0-6 age group. These centers provide supplementary nutrition, non-formal pre-school education, nutrition and health education, immunization, health check-up and referral services of which later three services are provided in convergence with public health systems. ...

Janani Sahoyogi Yojana To provide the financial assistance to the women belonging to the BPL category family, government of Madhya Pradesh has come up with the Janani  Sahoyogi Yojana.It is one of welfare scheme for pregnant  women of department of public health and family. Aims: To provide necessary accessibility to ...

For the proper functioning of body there must be presence of all essential nutrients in required quantity, for this, Under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Programme, Gujarat Government has come up with the objective of providing proper nutrition food free of cost. Eligibility: This scheme is for the children ...