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ANNUAL REPORT

2015-16

Towards a New Dawn

MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT Government of India

CONTENTS

Page No.

Chapter 1. Introduction 1-4

Chapter 2. Women Empowerment and Protection 5-18

Chapter 3. Child Development 19-40

Chapter 4. Child Protection and Welfare 41-56

Chapter 5. Gender Budgeting 57-64

Chapter 6 Plan Statistics Research and Other Activities 65-76

Chapter 7. Food and Nutrition Board 77-86

Chapter 8. National Institute of Public Cooperation 87-96 and Child Development

Chapter 9. Central Social Welfare Board 97-102

Chapter 10. National Commission for Women 103-114

Chapter 11. Rashtriya Mahila Kosh 115-122

Chapter 12. National Commission for Protection of 123-134 Child Rights

Chapter 13. Central Adoption Resource Authority 135-142

Annexures 143

1

Introduction

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 1

Introduction

1.1 The Ministry of Women and Child Mission - Children Development, Government of India, came into existence as a separate Ministry with effect 1.4 Ensuring development, care and protection of from 30th January, 2006. It has the nodal children through cross-cutting policies and responsibility to advance the rights and programmes, spreading awareness about their rights concerns of women and children who together and facilitating access to learning, nutrition, constitute 67.7% of the country's population, as institutional and legislative support for enabling them to grow and develop to their full potential. per 2011 Census. The Ministry was constituted with the prime intention of addressing gaps in Constitutional and Legal Provisions State action for women and children and for promoting inter-Ministerial and inter-sectoral 1.5 The concern of the makers of our Constitution convergence to create gender equitable and for equality to women on the one side and for child-centred legislation, policies and assuring the rights of children, promoting their programmes. The functions of the Ministry well-being and ensuring a better future for them on include promoting the survival, protection, the other, are enshrined in constitutional provisions development and participation of women and which are listed at Annexure - I. For furthering the children in a holistic manner. interests of the women and the children of the country, the Government has also enacted a number The Ministry has the following Vision of laws which are listed at and Mission: Annexure - II.

Vision Subjects allocated to the Ministry of Women

and Child Development 1.2 Empowered women living with dignity and contributing as equal partners in 1.6 The subjects allocated to the Ministry of development in an environment free from Women and Child Development are listed at violence and discrimination. And, well- Annexure - III. nurtured children with full opportunities for growth and development in a safe and 1.7 The Ministry of Women and Child protective environment. Development has been preparing its policies and programmes in accordance with the priorities Mission - Women outlined in the Five Year and Annual Plans for 1.3 Promoting social and economic inclusive growth and development of women and children. empowerment of women through cross- cutting policies and programmes, 1.8 The Ministry has evolved policies, plans mainstreaming gender concerns, creating of action, legislations, programmes and schemes awareness about their rights and facilitating for advancement of women and children and has institutional and legislative support for been implementing them with the support of enabling them to realise their human rights State Governments/UTs, Government and Non- and develop to their full potential. Government Organisations for achieving its mandate.

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Organisational Structure of the Ministry Commission for Women (NCW) and National

th Commission for Protection of Child Rights 1.9 After the formation of 16 Lok Sabha, (NCPCR). NIPCCD, RMK and CARA are societies Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, has taken over registered under the Societies Registration Act, the charge as Cabinet Minister of the Ministry 1860. CSWB is a charitable company registered of Women and Child Development. Shri V. under section 25 of the Indian Companies Act, Somasundaran, took charge of the Secretary of 1956. These organizations are funded by the th the Ministry with effect from 5 June, 2015, on Government of India and they assist the Ministry in the transfer of Shri Vinay Sheel Oberoi from the its functions including implementation of Ministry to the Ministry of Human Resource programmes/schemes. The Food and Nutrition Development. Shri V. Somasundaran is assisted Board (FNB) is an attached office of the Ministry. by two Additional Secretaries, a Financial Adviser, four Joint Secretaries, an Economic A d v i s e r a n d a S t a t i s t i c a l A d v i s e r. 1.11 The National Commission for Women Organizational chart of the Ministry is at (NCW) is a national apex statutory body set up in Annexure-IV. 1992 for protecting and safeguarding the rights of women. National Commission for Protection of Organisations under the aegis of the Child Rights (NCPCR) was set up on 5th March, Ministry 2007 as envisaged in the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005. 1.10 The Ministry has four (4) Autonomous Organizations viz. National Institute of Public Achievements of the Ministry during 2015-16 Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Central Social Welfare Board 1.12 T h e P o l i c y i n i t i a t i v e s a n d P l a n (CSWB), Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK), and interventions for the development, welfare and Central Adoption Resource Authority protection of women and children and other (CARA) working under its aegis, besides two major achievements of the Ministry during 2015- (2) Statutory Commissions namely, National 16 are discussed in the succeeding chapters.

Introduction 4

2

Women Empowerment & Protection

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 2

Women Empowerment & Protection

Women Empowerment & Protection Component Plan whereby identified ministries were required to indicate the flow of funds to the 2.1 Gender equality is guaranteed under the women's programmes and schemes. The Ninth Constitution of India which not only prohibits Plan approach was to access women living in discrimination on grounds of sex but goes poverty and to guide them to help themselves b e y o n d t h a t a n d p e r m i t s p o s i t i v through initiative like Self-Help Groups (SHG). e discrimination in favour of women. Further, In the Tenth Plan, for the first time, monitorable our country is a signatory to the Convention targets were set for a few key indicators of on the Elimination of all Forms of human development, which include reduction in Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) gender gaps in literacy, wage rates and reduction under which we have an obligation to work in the maternal mortality rate. towards ensuring gender equality. Several constitutional provisions reiterate India's 2.3 The Twelfth Plan has identified the key commitment towards the socio-economic elements for gender equity to be addressed in the development of women and uphold their right next five years as economic empowerment, social of participation in political and decision and physical infrastructure, enabling legislations, making processes. As per Census 2011, the w o m e n ' s p a r t i c i p a t i o n i n g o v e r n a population of India is 1210.19 million n c e , inclusiveness of all categories of comprising 586.47 million (i.e. about 48.5%) vulnerable women, engendering national policies/ females. India has taken several measures to programmes and mainstreaming gender through secure gender parity in all walks of social, gender budgeting. economic and political life. II. NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE

I. P L A N N I N G P R O C E S S A N EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN D WOMEN EMPOWERMENT 2.4 The National Policy for Empowerment of Women, 2001 (NPEW) was formulated as the 2.2 To realize the above constitutional goal, the blueprint for the future, with the express goal of focus of our planning process has evolved from addressing women's felt needs and bringing about a purely welfare oriented approach to t h e i r a d v a n c e m e n t , d e v e l o p m e n t a recognizing women's centrality in the n d empowerment. developmental framework, to an empowerment module and now to recognizing women as Highlights of National Policy for the agents of change. While in the Sixth and in the Empowerment of Women, 2001: Seventh Five year Plans, the emphasis was The advancement, development primarily on health, education and employment andempowerment of women in all of women, a marked shift could be seen in the spheres of life. approach of Eighth Plan where 'empowerment' Introduction of more responsive judiciallegal of women was recognized and accepted as a systems that is sensitive to women's needs distinct strategy. This was further taken forward ensuring women's equality in power in the Ninth plan with the introduction of the sharing and active participation in concept of Women's decision making.

7 Annual Report 2015-16 Mainstreaming a gender perspective 2.7 Following the recommendations of the indevelopment process. Committee, a Task Force was set up by MWCD under the Chairpersonship of Smt. Neela Strengthening and formation ofrelevant Gangadharan to take the recommendations of the institutional mechanisms. HLC forward. The Task Force was entrusted with Partnership with community two tasks: preparation of action points for empowerment of women and redrafting of the basedorganizations; and National Policy for Empowerment of Women. Implementation of An inter-ministerial matrix of action points for internationalobligations, empowerment of women has since been commitments and cooperation at the prepared. A Draft Policy document will be shared international, regional and sub- with line Ministries and will be put in the public domain for comments and suggestions. regional level. III. LEGISLATIVE INTERVENTIONS 2.5 The NPEW was envisaged as a comprehensive framework which is Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace progressive and forward looking in nature. (Prevention, Prohibition & Redressal) Act, 2013 The policies/programmes of the Government are already directed towards achieving 2.8 The constitutional guarantee of gender inclusive growth with special focus on equality includes protection from sexual harassment and the right to work with dignity. With more and women in line with the objective of the more women joining the workforce, both in National Policy for Empowerment of Women. organised and un-organised sectors, ensuring an High Level Committee on the Status of enabling working environment through legislation is imperative. Besides, women in educational and Women 2.6 A High Level Committee (HLC) on the medical institutions and women who may enter a Status of Women was re-constituted by workplace in various capacities such as clients and customers are also vulnerable and need protection Government of India in 2013 to undertake from sexual harassment at the workplace. comprehensive study to understand the status of women since 1989 as well as to evolve 2.9 The Sexual Harassment of Women at appropriate policy interventions based on a Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) contemporary assessment of women's need. Act, 2013 seeks to provide a safe and secure The Committee has submitted its report in environment to women at the workplace. The Act June 2015.

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi addressing at the Workshop to discuss recommendations of High Level Committee on Status of Women, in New Delhi on July 20, 2015.

Women Empowerment & Protection 8 came into force on 9th December 2013. The giving and taking of dowry with imprisonment rules under this act have been notified as well. for a term which shall not be less than five years, The Act seeks to cover all women, and with the fine which shall not be less than irrespective of their age or employment status fifteen thousand rupees. It also lays down a built- and protect them against sexual harassment at in implementation mechanism in the form of all workplaces both in public and private Dowry Prohibition Officers to ensure effective sector, whether organized or unorganized. and efficacious enforcement of the law.

2.10 Section 4 and Section 6 of the Act The Protection of Women from Domestic provide for a redressal mechanism in the form Violence Act (PWDVA), 2005 of Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) and Local Complaints Committee (LCC). All 2.15 Violence against women takes various forms, workplaces employing 10 or more than 10 including physical, economic, social, and workers are mandated under the Act to psychological. The PWDVA came into force on th constitute an ICC. Complaints from 26 October, 2006 and provides immediate support workplaces employing less than 10 workers to women victims of domestic violence in the form or when the complaint is against the employer of shelter, medical facility and relief in the nature will be looked into by the LCC. A District of protection, residence, compensation, Officer notified under the Act will constitute maintenance orders as well as orders for temporary the LCC at the district level. custody of children. It entitles victim to support services like shelter, medical relief, legal assistance 2.11 The Act mandates that the Committee and counselling. The law also widens the meaning shall complete the inquiry within a time of the word 'aggrieved woman' by including women period of ninety days. On completion of the who face domestic violence in relationships other inquiry, the report will be sent to the than matrimonial relationships like daughters, employer or the District Officer, as the case mothers, sisters and those involved in marriage like may be and they are mandated to take action relationships and provide a woman's right to reside on the report within 60 days. in the shared household.

2.12 Section 19 of the Act casts a The Indecent Representation of Women Act, responsibility on every employer to create an 1986 environment which is free from sexual harassment. Under this Act, employers are 2.16 The Act was enacted with the specific required to organize workshops and awareness objective of prohibiting indecent representation programmes at regular intervals for sensitizing of women in advertisement, publication, writing the employees about the provision of this and painting or in any other manner and legislation and display notices regarding the references that are derogatory to the dignity of constitution of Internal Committees, penal women. Contravention of relevant provisions of consequences of sexual harassment etc. the Act is punishable with imprisonment, of either description, for a term which may extend 2.13 All Internal Complaints Committees upto two years and with fine which may extend are required to submit annual reports to the to two thousand rupees on first conviction and in employer who in turn will submit it to the the event of a second or subsequent conviction District Officer. All Local Complaints imprisonment for a term not less than six months, Committees shall submit their annual report which may extend upto five years and with fine to the District Officer. The District Officers not less than ten thousand rupees, which may will submit the report annually to the State extend upto one lakh rupees. Governments. National Commission for Women The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 2.17 The National Commission for Women 2.14 Recognizing the need to address the social (NCW) was constituted on 31st January, 1992 as evil of dowry, the Dowry Prohibition Act was a statutory body at the National level under the enacted in 1961. The Act defines ―dowry‖ and National Commission for Women Act, 1990, to penalizes the giving, taking or abetting the safeguard and promote the rights and interests of

9 Annual Report 2015-16 women. It has a wide mandate covering almost 60:40 between centre and general category states, all aspects of women's development. The 90:10 between centre and special category states Commission investigates and examines the (8 northern states and 3 hilly states of Himalayan legal safeguards provided for women under the region) and 100% support for UTs. Constitution and other laws and recommends to the Government to take measures for their of 2.19 In 2013, IGMSY was selected for inclusion effective implementation. The Commission also under DBT scheme. The purpose of Direct Benefits reviews the existing provisions of the Transfer is to ensure that benefits go to individuals' Constitution and other laws affecting women bank accounts electronically, minimising tiers and recommends amendments to meet any involved in fund flow thereby reducing delay in lacunae, inadequacies or shortcomings in such payment, ensuring accurate targeting of the laws. It looks into complaints and takes suo – beneficiary and curbing pilferage and duplication. moto cognizance on matters relating to DBT in IGMSY was implemented in phased deprivation of women's rights, etc. and take up manner. The Ministry of Finance (Dept. of issues with appropriate authorities. The Expenditure) made use of Public Management commission is also empowered to participates System (PFMS) mandatory for schemes/programs and advises in the planning process for socio- economic development of women, inspects of all Ministries/Departments, which involve jails, remand / shelter homes etc. where women component of cash transfers to individual are kept under custody and seeks remedial beneficiaries. For making payment to the action wherever necessary. beneficiaries' accounts under IGMSY with PFMS, the portal has been customised as per the scheme (More details and activities undertaken during contours. In collaboration with the PFMS Cell, two the year are given in a separate chapter 10 on rounds of trainings on usage of PFMS portal for 'National Commission for Women') States/UTs have been conducted.

IV. SCHEMES FOR WOMEN 2.20 The proposal for continuation and Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana expansion of IGMSY from 53 pilot districts to all (IGMSY) – Conditional Maternity Benefit the districts of the country as per the provisions (CMB) Scheme. of the National Food Security Act, 2013 is under consideration in the Ministry. The scheme will be 2.18 Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana expanded to cover all the districts of the country (IGMSY) is a Centrally Sponsored Conditional after obtaining approval of Competent Authority. Cash Transfer Scheme for pregnant and lactating women introduced in October 2010 in 2.21 The Budget Estimate for 2015-16 is 53 selected districts on pilot basis using the Rs. 438.00 crore and Revised Estimate is platform of ICDS. In the Scheme, the pregnant Rs. 233.50 crore. Funds amounting to Rs. 232.99 and lactating women who are 19 years and crore have been released to the States/UTs upto above, for first two live births, are paid Rs. March, 2016. The Budget estimate for 2016-17 is 6000/- in two instalments upon fulfilling Rs. 400.00 crore as Central Government share for specific health and nutrition conditions. As per implementing the scheme in accordance with the the schematic norms, cash benefit is provided in provisions of the National Food Security Act, the bank/post office accounts of the 2013. The financial and physical progress under the scheme is at Annexure-V & VI. beneficiaries by the State Governments/UT Administrations wherein distributing maternity National Mission for Empowerment of Women benefit in cash/cheque is not permissible. The 2.22 National Mission for Empowerment of scheme has an annual budget of Rs.438 crores. Women (NMEW) aims to bring about inter- IGMSY has promoted financial inclusion, sectoral convergence towards achieving holistic among 6 lakh women annually, thereby empowerment of women. NMEW Scheme was promoting economic empowerment process. appraised and approved for continuation during From 2015-16, the scheme has cost sharing of the 12th Plan period as a sub-component of the

Women Empowerment & Protection 10 Umbrella Scheme for Protection and 2.25 With the learnings from the pilot PSK Development of Women. NMEW is currently project, a new component namely Village involved in the implementation and Convergence and Facilitation Service (VCFS) monitoring of new initiatives of MWCD like has been envisaged for implementation in Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP Scheme), convergence with Gram Panchayats (GPs) at the One Stop Centres, Women Helpline etc. and village level. VCFS aims to create awareness also facilitates convergence of schemes/ through Village Coordinators on issues related to programmes of different Ministries/ women and facilitate convergence & Departments with focus on women. coordination on ground in close coordination 2.23 At the State level the institutional with the Gram Panchayats. VCFS is currently mechanism to take forward the objective of being implemented in 100 Beti Bachao and Beti NMEW rests with the State Mission Authority Padhao (BBBP) districts to address issues (SMA) and State Resource Centre for Women pertaining to education, health, nutritional needs, (SRCW) established under the respective State legal rights and safety and security of women. Government/UT Administration. SRCW has been notified in 32 States/UTs namely Swadhar- A Scheme for Women in Difficult Circumstances Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, 2.26 Swadhar Scheme was launched by the Chandigarh, Daman & Diu, Gujarat, Goa, Ministry during the year 2001-02 for the benefit Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Jammu & of women in difficult circumstances with the Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, following objectives: Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, To provide primary need of shelter, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, food,clothing and care to the Tripura, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Uttar marginalized w o m e n / g i r l s l i v i n g Pradesh. 24 SRCWs are currently functional i n d i f f i c u l t circumstances who are with designated staff. without any social and economic support;

2.24 In order to facilitate convergence of To provide emotional support andcounselling schemes/programs at the ground level, Poorna to rehabilitate them socially and Shakti Kendra (PSK) project was conceived in a pilot mode in selected districts. The first pilot economically through education, awareness etc.; project to demonstrate convergence of programmes and schemes was launched in To arrange for specific clinical, legal andother District Pali, Rajasthan on Sep 16, 2011. The support for women/girls in need; and project entails setting up of convergence centres at the district, block and Gram Panchayat (GP) To provide for help line or other facilities level. The convergence centres are meant to tosuch women in distress. facilitate greater access for women to Target Group/Beneficiaries government schemes/ programs, create awareness on gender issues and facilitate/ hand Widows deserted by their families and holding of women in need/affected by violence. relatives; Each kendra at GP level has two Mahila Gram Samanvyaks (Village Coordinators) who act as Women prisoners released from jail andwithout family support; motivators for the women in the area and are also responsible for providing support/ Women survivors of natural disaster whohave facilitation on various issues that affect been rendered homeless; women's empowerment. 16 PSK projects are currently operational. Trafficked women/girls rescued or runaway from brothels

11 Annual Report 2015-16 Women victims of Women Empowerment & Protection terrorist/extremistviolence who are Short Stay Homes have been merged and revised as without any family support and ―Swadhar Greh‖ Scheme. The revised financial without any economic means for norms will be effective from 1-1-2016 and funds survival; are to be channelized to implementing agencies through State Governments. Details of the Grants Mentally challenged women(except forthe released to the NGOs in the States are at psychotic categories who require care Annexure-VII. in specialized environment in mental hospitals) who are without any Assistance to Vrindavan Home for Widows: support of family or relatives. Presently, at Vrindavan, 4 Swadhar Homes and 1

Women with HIV/AIDS deserted bytheir Short Stay Home are functioning with support of family and without social/ economic the Ministry. Under these shelter homes free shelter, food, medical care, clothing, counseling etc. support. are provided to the beneficiaries. Hon'ble Supreme Implementing Agencies Court in the Order dated 20.2.2015 in Writ Petition 2.27 The Scheme is being implemented (Civil) No.659 of 2007 (Environment & Consumer through Social Welfare/Women and Child Protection Foundation Vs. Union of India and Welfare Department of State Government, Others) appointed the Principal Secretary, Women's Development Corporations, Urban Department of Women and Child Development, Local Bodies, reputed Public/Private Trust or Government of Uttar Pradesh as the Nodal Officer Voluntary Organizations. At present 311 to look into various reports and take necessary Swadhar Homes are functioning across the measures to formulate a plan of action to ameliorate country. Under Swadhar Scheme, financial the problems and difficulties of the widows in allocations and actual expenditure for the last Vrindavan. The decision is being reviewed by the five years and current year are as under: State Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. Funds for repair of existing Homes by HUDCO under their CSR has S. Year Budget Expenditure already been earmarked. One installment for the No. Estimates (Rs. in crore) purpose has also been released by them. 1. 2010-11 34.21 34.21 Simultaneously structural Audit through IIT is also being undertaken by HUDCO. Further funds will 2. 2011-12 30.00 24.59 be released by HUDCO after identification of the building by the State Government. Considering the 3. 2012-13 100.00 52.23 dilapidated condition of the earmarked building. 4. 2013-14 75.00 53.74 The Govt. of Uttar Pradesh has provided a land to build shelter home at Vrindavan and construction of 5 2014-15 115.00 28.60 a new home for the widows through NBCC with an

6. 2015-16 54.00 38.6 estimated cost of Rs. 57 crores (including Rs. 1.99 (as on 25- crores as the cost of land) has begun. The cost of land has already been released by the Ministry. 1-2016) Including grant release to CSWB for running Short Stay Homes, as there is no separate budget provisions for SSH. Support To Training And Employment

Programme (STEP) 2.28 The Short Stay Home (SSH) scheme which is similar in nature as Swadhar scheme 2.29 The Ministry has been administering 'Support is being implemented through Central Social to Training and Employment Programme (STEP) Welfare Board. Funds for the scheme are for Women' since 1986-87 as a 'Central Sector being made available by the Ministry from the Scheme'. The STEP Scheme aims to provide skills funds allocated for the Swadhar scheme since that give employability to women and to provide 2012-2013. Now, the Scheme Swadhar and competencies and skill that enable women

12 to become self-employed/ entrepreneurs. The Implementing Agencies will be provided Scheme is intended to benefit women who are financial assistance for installing Solar Water in the age group of 16 years and above across Heating System/ Geyser and providing Washing Machines for the use of inmates of the Hostel. the country. The assistance under STEP Scheme will be available in any sector for imparting 2.32 Since its inception in 1972-73, 921 hostels skills related to employability and have been sanctioned under the scheme all over the entrepreneurship, including but not limited to country benefitting about 69,051 working women. the Agriculture, Horticulture, Food Processing, State wise details are given at Annexure-IX. Handlooms, Tailoring, Stitching, Embroidery, 2.33 In the financial year 2015-16, a budgetary Zari etc, Handicrafts, Computer & IT enable allocation of Rs. 28.00 Crore was made for the services along with soft skills and skills for the construction of working women's hostel across the work place such as spoken English, Gems & country, out of which, Rs. 5.56 crore have been Jewellery, Travel & Tourism, Hospitality. The released upto 31st December, 2015. Details are at details of the Revised STEP Scheme guidelines- Annexure-X. 2014 is available at Ministry's website www.wcd.nic.in. Prevention of Trafficking of Women and Children for Commercial Sexual Exploitation 2.30 During 2014-15 against a target of 30,000 beneficiaries 30,953 beneficiaries were 2.34 Trafficking of human beings, especially of covered. During 2015-16, total number of women and children, is an organized crime 11608 beneficiaries have been covered upto violating all basic human rights. Poverty, 15.01.2016. An amount of Rs. 740.22 lakhs and illiteracy, lack of livelihood options, natural / Rs.1032.95 lakhs has been released during man-made disasters are some of the factors that 2014-15 and 2015-16 (up to 15.01.2016) make a person vulnerable to trafficking. The respectively. The details of funds released Ministry of Women and Child Development is (State-wise) during last 3 years and current year primarily concerned with trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. 2015-16 (15.01.2016) is at Annexure-VIII. Working Women Hostel (WWH) India's Commitment towards Prevention of Trafficking 2.31 Under the Scheme of Working Women Hostel financial assistance is provided for Article 23 of the Constitution of India construction/ running of Hostel in rented prohibitstrafficking in human beings and beggar. premises for those working women who may be single, widowed, divorced, separated, married ―Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956‖ but whose husband or immediate family does laysdown provisions for stringent punishment not reside in the same area and for those women to the perpetrators of the crime. who are under training for job. Provision of day Indian Penal Code also has provisions care centre for children of the inmates of the forpreventing crimes related to trafficking. Hostel is an important aspect of the scheme. India has ratified the: The Scheme has been revised in June, 2015. As per revised guidelines, Working Women are (a) UN Convention against Transnational entitled to hostel facilities provided their gross Organized Crime with its Protocol to Prevent, income does not exceed Rs. 50,000/- Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons especially Women and Children consolidated (gross) per month in metropolitan cities, or Rs. 35,000/- consolidated (gross) per (b) SAARC Convention on Preventing and month, in any other place. When the income of Combating Trafficking of Women and Children any working women already residing in a hostel in Prostitution; exceeds the prescribed limits, she will be (c) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of required to vacate the hostel within a period of Discrimination against Women; and six months of crossing the income limit. (d) Convention on the Rights of the Child.

13 Annual Report 2015-16 2.35 The magnitude of trafficking is difficult Some of the activities envisaged under the to estimate due to the clandestine nature of the Scheme are: crime. The stigma attached to prostitution Formation of community vigilance makes it even more difficult to collect the groups,adolescents groups, awareness authentic numbers. However, based on studies creation and preparation of IEC material, conducted by the Ministry from time to time, holding workshops, etc. number of women and children in sex work in India is estimated to be 3 million. Most often, Safe withdrawal of victims from the placeof the victims are trafficked through means like exploitation. duping, luring, fake marriages, abduction, Rehabilitation of victims by providingthem kidnapping and through manipulation of social safe shelter, basic amenities, medical care, and economic vulnerabilities. legal aid, vocational training and income

generation activities. 2.36 The Ministry has adopted a multi- pronged approach to prevent and combat Re-integration of victims into society. trafficking which includes legislative Provide support to cross-border victims measures; programmes and schemes for fortheir safe repatriation to their country prevention of trafficking and for rescue, of origin. rehabilitation, reintegration and repatriation of victims of trafficking; training, capacity 2.39 Under the Ujjawala scheme, assistance is building; awareness generation; and provided to eligible organisations for undertaking empowerment of vulnerable groups. the above activities. During 2015-16, 286 Projects including 162 Protective & The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 Rehabilitative Homes have been sanctioned under the scheme. An outlay of Rs.20.00 crores 2.37 The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, has been provided for the scheme and out of this, 1956 [ITPA] is the premier legislation for Rs.13.99 crores was released till 31.12.2015 in prevention of trafficking for commercial sexual the current financial year 2015-16. Standing exploitation. It lays down stringent punishment Finance Committee (SFC) on Ujjawala scheme for the perpetrators of the crime, such as, for under the Chairmanship of Secretary, WCD has keeping a brothel, living on the earnings of approved continuation of the scheme with revised th prostitution, procuring, inducing or taking norms in the 12 Plan period w.e.f. 01.04.2016. persons for the sake of prostitution, detaining a 2.40 The statement showing details of funds person where prostitution is carried on etc. The released under Ujjawala Scheme during 2015-16 Act also provides for setting up of Protective (01.04.15 to 31.12.2015) is at Annexure-XI. Homes by the State Governments. Scheme for Setting up One Stop Centre Scheme for Combating Trafficking 2.41 The Ministry of Women and Child 2.38 “Ujjawala”, a comprehensive scheme Development has approved the scheme for setting up One Stop Centre to support women-affected by to combat trafficking was launched by the th Ministry on 4th December, 2007 and is being violence on 4 March, 2015. The scheme aims to implemented mainly through NGOs. The facilitate access to an integrated range of services including medical aid, police assistance, legal Scheme has five components — Prevention, aid/case management, psychosocial counseling and Rescue, Rehabilitation, Re-Integration and temporary support services to women affected by Repatriation of trafficked victims for violence. The scheme is being implemented since commercial sexual exploitation. 1st April 2015. The project cost for the

Women Empowerment & Protection 14 remaining period of the 12th Five Year Plan Manipur. Till date 6 One Stop Centre have been i.e. 2015-16 and 2016-17 is Rs. 18.58 crore made operational in Raipur (Chhattisgarh), including construction cost. Vijayawada City (Andhra Pradesh), Karnal (Haryana), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Jaipur (Rajasthan) and Chandigarh.

[Sakhi (One Stop Centre), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha]

Universalisation of Women Helpline Scheme

2.43 The Ministry has approved the Scheme

[ One Stop Centre , Raipur, Chhattisgarh ] for Universalisation of Women Helpline on 19th February, 2015 and is being implemented from 2.42 An amount of Rs. 10.71 crore has been 1st April, 2015. The project cost for remaining sanctioned to 31 States/UTs for establishment period of the 12th Five Year Plan i.e.2015-16 and of One Stop Centre namely Andaman & 2016-17 is Rs.69.49 crore. The Scheme will be Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal implemented by States/UTs. Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh, 2.44 An amount of Rs.14.89 crore has been Daman & Diu, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Goa, sanctioned to 31 States/UTs for setting up Women Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Helpline namely Odisha, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Delhi, Telangana, Andaman & Nicobar, Te l a n g a n a , Tr i p u r a , U t t a r P r a d e s Gujarat, Chandigarh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Jammu h , Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir, Bihar and & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Karnataka, Haryana, Maharashtra, Meghalaya,

Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Daman & Diu.

New Initiatives

Gender sensitization of police force including 33% reservation to women in police force:

2.45 In continuation of its commitment towards creating a violence free society, the Government of India is building gender responsive police

force through training programs, performance [The premier One Stop Centre inaugurated appraisal and by providing 33% reservation to by Smt Maneka Gandhi, Minister, MWCD at women in police force. Raipur, Chhattisgarh on 16th July, 2015]

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Gender Champions: engagements of Mahila Police Volunteers (MPVs) in States/UTs who will act as a link 2.46 In order to move between police and community and facilitate towards a gender just women in distress. The Ministry has developed a society that treats women Guideline for operationalization of Mahila Police equally, the Ministry of Volunteer which has been sent to Ministry of W o m e n a n d C h i l d Home Affairs for adoption. Development (MWCD) in collaboration with the Training and Capacity Building [Badge to be worn by

H u m a n 2.50 The Ministry of Women and Child M i n i s t r y o f Gender Champions ]

Resource Development Development in collaboration with National (MHRD), have Gender Champions as Institute of Public Co-operation and Child responsible leaders who will facilitate an e n a Development (NIPCCD) organizes trainings and b l i n g e n v i r o n m e n t w i t h i n t h e i r workshops on issues related to trafficking for NGOs and other stakeholders. schools/colleges/academic institutions where girls are treated with dignity and respect. V. RECOGNITION OF WOMEN They will strengthen the potential of young Stree Shakti Puruskar/Nari Shakti Puruskar girls and boys to advocate for gender equality and monitor progress towards gender justice. 2.51 Every year, on the occasion of International th 2.47 As a first step towards the roll out of the Women's Day on 8 March, six National Awards Gender Champion initiative, University Grants (Stree Shakti Puruskar) are conferred by the Commission (UGC) has issued the Guidelines Government of India to individuals who have made of Gender Champions developed by MWCD exceptional contribution towards empowerment of through a circular dated 3rd August, 2015 women. The Stree Shakti Puruskar are named after requesting all Universities and their affiliated eminent personalities in Indian History, who are colleges to implement the said guidelines. famous for their courage and integrity. They are Further, Universities are requested to treat the namely; Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, Kannagi, Mata matter as urgent and report to UGC regarding Jija Bai, Rani Gaidinliu Zeliang, Rani Lakshmi Bai action taken by 31st August, 2015. and Rani Rudramma Devi. During the year 2015- Village Convergence and Facilitation 16, the Government further recognize the singular Service Centres: contribution of women in specific areas by way of Nari Shakti Puruskar and eight women were 2.48 Village Convergence and Facilitation conferred with this award. Service Centres (VCFCs) in all districts covered under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao program which 2.52 On 8th March, 2015, Six Stree Shakti will serve as a single window for information Puruskar, which carries a cash prize of Rs. 3 lakh on Government programmes, schemes, laws each and a certificate and 8 Nari Shakti Puruskar, and services impacting women and be the which carries a cash prize of Rs. one lakh each, forum for addressing women's issues in the was awarded. In addition to this, Ministry also village. These forums will give women an initiated the following awards: opportunity to discuss the gender dimension of their issues focusing on their education, health, Zila Mahila One woman in A cash prize of nutritional needs, occupational status, skill Samman each Rs. 20,000/- levels and legal rights and facilitate women's District of the and a scroll/ access to government programmes. Country citation Mahila Police Volunteers (MPVs): Rajya Mahila One woman in A cash prize of Samman each State/ Rs. 40,000/- 2.49 The Ministry of Women and Child Union and a scroll/ Development in collaboration with the Territory citation Ministry of Home Affairs has envisaged

Women Empowerment & Protection 16 2.53 The award ceremonies for district level organizations and institutions. These awards are award were held at each district headquarter on called “Nari Shakti Puruskars”. The award International women's day (8th March, 2015). shall be applicable to institutions and The State Level awards were presented at a individuals from any part of the country who function held in State Head quarter. have rendered distinguished services to the cause of women.The institutional Award carries 2.54 In the year 2015-16, to recognize the a cash prize of Rs. Two lakhs each and a efforts made by women & institutions in certificate whereas Individual awards carries a rendering distinguished services for the cause cash prize of Rs. One lakh each and a certificate. of women, especially vulnerable and Nari Shakti Puruskar, 2015 have been conferred marginalized women, Ministry announced 20 on 8th March, 2016 on the occasion of national level awards (11 institutional + 9 International Women's Day (IWD) in a function Individual) for conferring on eminent women, held at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.

Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble President of India and Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Union Minister of Women and Child Development with the recipients of Nari Shakti Puraskar, 2015 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi at a function on the occasion of International Women's Day on 8-3-2016

th VI. I N T E R N A T I O N A L 5 Meeting of Task Force of India and COOPERATION Bangladesh on Bilateral Cooperation on Human Trafficking 1st Meeting of SAARC Gender Policy th 2.56 The Ministry participated in the 5th Meeting Advocacy Group (SAARC-GPAG) and 7 Meeting of SAARC Technical Committee on of Task Force of India and Bangladesh on Women, Youth and Children (TC-WYC) Bilateral Cooperation on Human Trafficking held on 17-18 August 2015 in Dhaka (Bangladesh). 2.55 Ministry of Women and Child Development participated in the 1st Meeting 'Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)' of SAARC Gender Policy Advocacy Group Women Economic Empowerment event (SAARC-GPAG) and 7th Meeting of SAARC 2.57 An Indian delegation led by Additional Technical Committee on Women, Youth and Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Children (TC-WYC) held on 26-27 July 2015 Development participated in the 'Indian Ocean and 28-29 July 2015 respectively in Rim Association (IORA)' Women Economic Empowerment event co-hosted by Australia and Islamabad (Pakistan). Seychelles held on 24-25 August 2015.

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th Women-20 Summit 60 Session of Commission on the Status of 2.58 The Ministry participated in the Women (CSW60) 'Women-20 Summit' held in Istanbul (Turkey) 2.60 M i n i s t r y o f Wo m e n a n d C h i l d on 16-17 October 2015. Development participated in the Ministerial th 1st Gender Focal Point Conference segment of 60 session of Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held in New York 2.59 Ministry of Women and Child (USA) on 14-16 March 2016. Development participated in the 1st Gender 6th SAIEVAC Governing Board Meeting Focal Point Conference held on 26-27 November 2015. 2.61 The Ministry participated in the 6th South Asia Initiative to End Violence Against Children (SAIEVAC) Governing Board Meeting held in Colombo (Sri Lanka) on 16-17 March 2016.

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3

Child Development

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 3

Child Development

3.1 Children in the age group 0–6 years capacity and mortality on the other. The constitute around 158 million of the population beneficiaries under the Scheme are children in of India (2011 census). These children are the the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant women and future human resource of the country. Ministry lactating mothers. of Women and Child Development is Objectives of the Scheme are: implementing various schemes for welfare, development and protection of children. The i. to improve the nutritional and health status details of the schemes and programmes of children in the age-group 0-6 years; undertaken for children are discussed in the ii. to lay the foundation for proper succeeding paragraphs. psychological, physical and social Integrated Child Development Services development of the child;

(ICDS) Scheme iii. to reduce the incidence of mortality, 3.2 The Integrated Child Development Services morbidity, malnutrition and school (ICDS) Scheme is one of the flagship dropout; programmes of the Government of India and iv. to achieve effective co-ordination of policy represents one of the world's largest and unique and implementation amongst the various programmes for early childhood care and development. It is the foremost symbol of d e p a r t m e n t s t o p r o m o t e c h i l d development; and country's commitment to its children and nursing mothers, as a response to the challenge v. to enhance the capability of the mother to of providing pre-school non-formal education look after the normal health and on one hand and breaking the vicious cycle of nutritional needs of the child through malnutrition, morbidity, reduced learning proper nutrition and health education.

Box: 3.1 – Package of services under ICDS The ICDS Scheme offers a package of six services, viz. i) supplementary nutrition ii) pre-school non-formal education iii) nutrition & health education iv) immunization v) health check-up and vi) referral services The last three services are related to health and are provided by Ministry/Department of Health and Family Welfare through NRHM & Health system. The perception of providing a package of services is based primarily on the consideration that the overall impact will be much larger if the different services develop in an integrated manner as the efficacy of a particular service depends upon the support it receives from the related services. For better governance in the delivery of the Scheme, convergence is, therefore, one of the key features of the ICDS Scheme. This convergence is in-built in the Scheme which provides a platform in the form of Anganwadi Centres for providing all services under the Scheme.

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Funding Pattern 50% of expenditure incurred by them on

supplementary nutrition, whichever is less. 3.3 Prior to 2005-06, providing of supplementary nutrition was the responsibility Government of India modified the sharing of the States and administrative cost was pattern of the ICDS Scheme between the provided by the Government of India as 100% Centre and States in 2009-10. The funding central assistance. Since many States were not pattern has been further revised from the year providing adequate funds for supplementary 2015-16. The cost sharing ratio between nutrition in view of resource constraints, it was Centre and States for ICDS Scheme in 2009- decided in 2005-06 to support the States/UTs 10 and 2015-16 has been illustrated as below: up to 50% of the financial norms or to support

Population Norms for Setting up of cover all habitations, particularly keeping in

AWCs/Mini-AWCs view those inhabited by SC/ST/Minorities. The

revised population norms of the ICDS Scheme 3.4 Population norms for setting up of

are as under: AWCs and Mini-AWCs have been revised to

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi visiting the Model Anganwadi, at Nawagaon, Raipur District in Chhattisgarh on July 16, 2015.

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Revised Nutrition and Feeding Norms under items in the form of micro nutrient fortified Supplementary Nutrition Component of food and/or energy dense food as THR have ICDS (revised w.e.f 24 February 2009) been recommended. These norms have also

3.5 Provision of supplementary nutrition under been endorsed by the Supreme Court in order the ICDS Scheme is primarily made to bridge dated 22.04.2009. The extent of nutritional the gap between the Recommended Dietary supplements to different types of beneficiaries is indicated below: Allowance (RDA) and the Average Daily Intake (ADI) of children and pregnant and Table 3.1: Revised Nutritional Norms in lactating women. Under the revised Nutritional ICDS and Feeding norms which have been made effective from February 2009, State Beneficiaries Calories Protein (g) Governments/UTs have been directed to (cal) provide 300 days of supplementary food to the Children 500 12-15 beneficiaries in a year which would entail (6 months to 72 giving more than one meal to the children from months) 3-6 years who come to AWCs. This includes Severely 800 20-25 morning snacks in the form of milk/banana/ Malnourished egg/seasonal fruits/micro-nutrient fortified food Children followed by a Hot Cooked Meal (HCM). For (6 months-72 children below 3 years of age and pregnant and lactating mothers, age appropriate Take Home months) Rations (THRs) in the form of pre-mix/ready- Pregnant 600 18-20 to-eat food are provided. Besides, for severely Women and underweight children in the age group of 6 Lactating months to 6 years, additional food Mothers

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Registration of Beneficiaries with nearly 6 lakh AWCs by the end

of 9th Plan. 3.6 All children below 6 years of age, pregnant women and lactating mothers are Currently 7,076 Projects and 14 eligible to avail the services under the ICDS lakhAWCs have been approved. Scheme at the AWC. Below Poverty Line This also includes a provision of (BPL) is not a criterion for registration of 20,000 AWCs 'on demand'. beneficiaries under ICDS. The Scheme is All 14 lakh AWCs have beensanctioned universal but self-selecting for all categories to the States/UTs. of beneficiaries. Revised Financial Norms Expansion of ICDS 3.7 Financial Norms of Supplementary Launched in 1975 in 33 Blocks Nutrition have been revised w.e.f. 22.10.2012 (Projects) with 4891 AWCs. to be rolled out in phased manner under the Gradually expanded to 5,652 Projects Restructured ICDS.

Table 3.2: Revised Financial Norms for Supplementary Nutrition under ICDS

The revised rates followed the phasing of the Coverage under ICDS - Trends since programme in selected 200 high burden March 2002 districts in 2012-13 and subsequently in 200 3.8 There has been significant progress in the districts in 2013-14 and remaining districts in implementation of ICDS Scheme both during 2014-15 on the existing cost sharing ratio of X and XI Plans in terms of increase in 50:50 between the Centre and the State other number of operational projects and than NE States where it will continue to be on Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) and coverage of 90:10 basis. beneficiaries as indicated below:

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th rd 3.9 As on 30 September 2015, 7072 crores for the Twelfth Plan. For the 3 year of projects and 13,47,890 AWCs are operational the Twelfth Plan i.e. for 2014-15, an amount of across 36 States/UTs, covering 1015.45 lakh Rs.16,581.82 crore was released to States/UTs beneficiaries under supplementary nutrition against Original Budget allocation (BE) of and 358.80 lakh children (3-6 years) under Rs.18,195.00 crore. However, the allocation for pre-school component. State-wise details of ICDS for 2014-15 at Revised Estimate (RE) number of sanctioned/operational projects stage has been pegged at Rs.16,561.60 crores. and AWCs and number of beneficiaries under Thus, the utilization as on 31.03.2015 under both supplementary nutrition and pre-school ICDS against RE is 100.12 %. This includes an education components as on 30th September, amount of Rs.9,869.91 crore for ICDS General 2015 are placed at Annexure-XII. & Training and Rs. 6,711.91 crore for

Financial progress during the XI and XII Supplementary Nutrition component under ICDS Scheme. An amount of Rs.10142.66 crore Plan Period has been released to various States/UTs during 3.10 . With wider spread of the Scheme, Plan 2015-16 as on 31.12.2015 as detailed at Allocation, which stood at Rs.44,400 crore for Annexure-XIII. the Eleventh Plan has increased to Rs.1,23,580

25 Annual Report 2015-16 Table: 3.4 Budget Allocation and Expenditure under ICDS Scheme during the Eleventh Plan and that for the first 4 years of the XII Plan

A p p r o v a l o f S t r e n g t h e n i n g a n A. Programmatic Reforms th d Restructuring of ICDS in the 12 Five i) Re-positioning the AWC as a “Vibrant Year Plan ECD Centre” to become the first 3.11 I n o r d e r t o a d d r e s s v a r i o u s village outpost for health, nutrition and programmatic, management and institutional early learning – minimum of six hours gaps and to meet administrative and operational of working, etc.

challenges, Government has approved the ii) Construction of AWC Building and Strengthening and Restructuring of ICDS revision of rent including up-gradation, Scheme with an allocation of Rs. 1,23,580 crore maintenance, improvement and repair. during 12th Five Year Plan. Administrative approval in this regard has been issued to the iii) Strengthening Package of Services – States/UTs on 22 October 2012. strengthening ECCE, focus on under-3s, Care and Nutrition Counselling service 3.12 Restructured and Strengthened ICDS f o r m o t h e r s o f u n d e r - 3 s a n d has been rolled out in 200 high burden management of severe and moderate districts in the first year (2012-13); in underweight. additional 200 districts in second year (2013- 14) (i.e. w.e.f. 1.4.2013) including districts iv) Improving Supplementary Nutrition Programme with revision of cost norms from special category States and NER; and in remaining districts in third year (2014-15) v) Management of severe and moderate u n (i.e. w.e.f. 1.4.2014). d e r w e i g h t – i d e n t i f i c a t i o n a 3.13 Key features of Strengthened and n d management of severe and moderate Restructured ICDS, inter-alia, include underweight through community based interventions, Sneha Shivirs, etc. addressing the gaps and challenges with: vi) Strengthening training and capacity as well as technical human resource, etc.

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B. Management Reforms including early learning, etc. State

i) Decentralized planning, management Child Development Society will be set up at the State level with powers to set and flexible architecture introduction up its District Units and fund transfer o f A n n u a l P r o g r a m m e o f of the ICDS Mission will be channeled Implementation Plan (APIP) and through the Consolidated Fund of the flexibility to States for innovations. State. However, in the event the State ii) Ensuring convergence at all the levels fails to transfer the funds within 15 including the grassroots level. days, it will be liable to pay interest on iii) Strengthening Governance – including the amount on the pattern of releases for the Finance Commission funds; PRIs, civil society & institutional partnerships with norm of up to 10% vi) Nutrition Counsellor cum Additional projects to be implemented in Worker in 200 high burden districts collaboration with such agencies. and link workers in others district will iv) Strengthening of ICDS Management be on demand by State Government Information System (MIS). approved through APIPs by EPC. Incentives proposed for link workers v) Using Information, Communication including ASHA workers under Technology (ICT) – web enabled MIS NRHM will be linked to outcomes; and use of mobile telephoney and others. vii) District Mission Unit would be set up as per the phasing plan of the ICDS vi) Deploying adequate human and Mission. Besides, District ICDS Cells Financial Resources with revision of to continue to operate as per existing some of the existing norms in norms and District Cells to be set up components, training, etc. introducing in those districts where the Cell is not new items,– pool of untied/flexi fund there; (for promoting voluntary action, local innovations, Anganwadi-cum-creche, viii) Constitution of a Mission Steering addl worker and link worker, provision Group (NMSG) and Empowered for children in special needs etc). Programme Committee (EPC) at national and state levels for effective C. Institutional Reforms planning, implementation, monitoring i) ICDS in Mission Mode with missions and supervision of ICDS Mission;

at National, State and District levels ix) Creation of a separate ICDS Mission ii) Introducing APIPs and MoUs with Budget head to allow flexibility and States/UTs i n t e g r a t i o n w i t h i n t h e c h i l d development and nutrition sectors iii) Technical and management support and for convergent action with wider for ICDS at various levels hitherto not determinants of maternal and child available under-nutrition. iv) Delivery of quality services with x) The ICDS Mission targets would be to measured inputs, processes, outputs attain three main outcomes namely; i) and outcomes Prevent and reduce young child under- v) Mission to report to the PM's Council nutrition (% underweight children 0-3 at national and to the CMs at the State years) by 10 percentage point; (ii) level on Nutrition, Child Development Enhance early development and

27 Annual Report 2015-16 learning outcomes in all children 0-6 enhanced by Rs.1,500/- per month on the last years of age; and (iii) Improve care and honorarium drawn by them and that of AWHs nutrition of girls and women and reduce and AWWs of Mini-Anganwadi Centres by Rs. anaemia prevalence in young children, 750/- per month on the last honorarium drawn st girls and women by one fifth. Annual by them with effect from 1 April, 2011. The Health Survey (AHS) and District Level honorarium to AWWs of Mini-AWCs is further Household Survey (DLHS) to be used enhanced by Rs. 750/- per month, on the last honorarium drawn by them w.e.f. 04.07.2013. as baseline for measuring the outcomes of ICDS mission. Promotion of Anganwadi Workers

xi) To strengthen training and capacity New guidelines for reservation of 50% of building with the Broad Framework as vacant posts of Supervisors for Anganwadi part of the EFC. Workers have been issued on 15.9.2016

xii) To revise the rent for AWC building up b. Anganwadi Karyakartri Bima to Rs.750, Rs.3000 and Rs.5000 per Yojana (AKBY)

month per unit for Rural/Tribal, Urban 3.16 T h e I C D S S c h e m e e n v i s a g e s and Metropolitan cities respectively, Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) and Anganwadi revised norms for pre-school education Helpers (AWHs) as honorary workers who are (PSE) kits @ Rs.3000 per AWC p.a and paid a monthly honorarium. AKBY under the Rs.1500 per mini-AWC p.a.; revised LIC's Social Security Scheme is one of the cost norms for two uniforms @ Rs.300 welfare measures extended to the grassroots each per annum per worker subject to functionaries of the ICDS Scheme. The overall budgetary allocations and Government of India has introduced the piloting of Crèche services in 5% of the Anganwadi Karyakatri Bima Yojana with AWCs. effect from 1.4.2004. The premium under the

Wheat Based Nutrition Programme scheme is Rs. 280/- per annum per member out of which Rs.100/- is paid by LIC from (WBNP) Social Security Fund, Rs.100/- by the 3.14 Under the Wheat Based Nutrition Government of India and Rs. 80/- by the Programme (WBNP), food grains viz., wheat, Anganwadi Worker/Helper (insured rice and other coarse grains are allocated at member). The premium of Rs. 80/- payable Below Poverty Line (BPL) rates to the by these workers have been waived off until States/UTs through the Department of Food & 31.3.2017. The salient features of this Bima Public Distribution (D/o F&PD), for preparation Yojana are as under:- of supplementary food in ICDS. The Ministry is responsible for processing and approval of the Natural death Rs. 30,000 proposals from the States/UTs for allocation of Accidental benefit Death/ food grains in coordination with the D/o F& Total permanent disability Rs. 75, 000 PD. During 2015-16, the Ministry of Women & Partial permanent disability Rs. 37,500 Child Development has allocated 9,38,958 MTs of wheat; 8,73,904 MTs of rice, 22,072 MTs of c. Female Critical Illness (FCI) Benefits

maize and 18,836 MTs of Ragi to 30 States/UTs 3.17 An amount of Rs. 20,000/- is payable on during 2015-16. the diagnosis of invasive cancers (malignant Welfare Measures for the Anganwadi tumour) manifest in the organs (i) Breast, (ii) Workers and Anganwadi Helpers Cervix Uteri, (iii) Corpus Uteri, (iv) Ovaries,

a. Enhanced Honoraria (v) Fallopian Tubes, (vi) Vina/Vulva (subject to proof of affliction satisfactory to Corporation). 3.15 Honorarium of AWWs has been A malignant tumour characterized by

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uncontrolled growth and spread of malignant students in 9th to 12th standard (including ITI cells and invasion of tissue that originates in courses) is provided. Scholarship is limited to one of the above anatomical sites is covered two children per family. With the waiver of under the Scheme. Rs. 80/- as premium payable towards critical illness by the Anganwadi Workers (AWWs) Shiksha Sahayog through Anganwadi Karanyakartri Bima Yojana (AKBY-LIC) and Helpers are covered for all the benefits under the Scheme. During the financial year 3.18. A free add-on scholarship benefit is 2015-16 (upto 30.06.2015), the following available for the children of Anganwadi number of claims have been settled and Workers covered under the AKBY Scheme. scholarships paid by LIC: Scholarship of Rs. 300/- per quarter for

Awards to Anganwadi Workers under ICDS 2012-13 and 2013-14. Smt. Maneka Sanjay Scheme Gandhi, Hon'ble Minister for Women & Child

3.19 The Government of India first Development, has given the Awards to the formulated a scheme of award for Anganwadi awardees during the function.

Workers at the National Level and State Level for the year 2000-2001. The Scheme is

being continued on a year to year basis. At the national level, the State Governments/UT Administrations nominate AWWs for

national level awards out of the awardees of the State/UT level award. The number of

nominations of AWWs depend on the size of the State/UT and number of operational ICDS projects. The AWWs award at the national level comprises of Rs.25,000/- and a citation and state level award carry cash award of Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Hon'ble Minister for Rs.5,000/- and citation. Women & Child Development, conferring National Awards to the Anganwadi Workers on on 1st 3.20 The Ministry of Women and Child December, 2015 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi Development organized a one day function on AWC Infrastructure 1st December, 2015 in Vigyan Bhavan, New 3.21 It is necessary that AWC is consolidated as Delhi to confer National Awards on 118 the first village/ habitation post for health, Anganwadi Workers, selected for their nutrition and early learning centre from which exceptional achievement for the years 2011-12, two other Schemes i.e. SABLA and IGMSY are

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Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Hon'ble Minister for Women & Child Development, conferring National Awards to the Anganwadi Workers on on 1st December, 2015 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi

also implemented. The ICDS Scheme did not provision for construction of 2 lakh Anganwadi provide for construction of AWC buildings Centre (AWC) buildings @ Rs.4.50 lakh per except in the North Eastern (NE) states. As part unit has been made during the XII Five Year of Strengthening and Restructuring of ICDS Plan. As per the guidelines, the AWC building Scheme, Government of India has approved should be child friendly with all relevant provision for construction of 2 lakh AWC infrastructure, sitting room for children/ buildings @ Rs. 4.50 lakh per AWC building women, kitchen, store, child friendly toilets, during the XII Plan period in a phased manner. space for playing of children. The total area of

st the building should beat least 600 sq.ft. 3.22 As per the information available as on 31 October, 2015 from 12.49 lakh AWCs/ mini- 3.24. Separately, 2 lakh AWC buildings are AWCs, about 89.91% AWCs are running planned to be constructed in 2,534 most from the pucca buildings and remaining backward Blocks of 8 World Bank assisted 10.09% from kutcha buildings; 34.22% ICDS Systems Strengthening & Nutrition running from Government owned buildings; Improvement Program (ISSNIP) States (Andhra 21.18% running from school premises; 5.78% Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, running from Panchayat buildings; 28.86% Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and running from rented including 7.72% from Uttar Pradesh) besides Assam, Odisha AWWs/ AWHs house; 9.14% running from &Telangana in convergence with Ministry of others; 0.82% running from open space. Rural Development under Mahatma Gandhi 69.60% AWCs are having drinking water National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme facilities within the premises and 49.38% (MGNREGS) @ 50,000 AWC buildings per AWCs have toilet facilities. year during the next four years. Construction of

AWC buildings has been included as an Convergence with Ministry of Rural approved activity under the MGNREGS Act. Development for construction of AWCs 'Guidelines for construction of Aanganwadi and Ministry of Panchayati Raj for Centers' under MGNREGS have been issued providing drinking water and sanitation jointly by the Ministries of Women and Child facilities in AWCs: Development and Rural Development, on 13th 3.23. Under the restructured Integrated Child August, 2015. Development Services (ICDS) Scheme, a

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The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi interacting with the children at an Anganwadi Centre, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh on August 27, 2015.

3.25. Under MGNREGS, expenditure up to Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rs.5 lakh per AWC building for construction Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Telangana and will be allowed. Expenditure beyond Rs.5 U.P. The model would be approved by the lakh per AWC (upto Rs.2 lakh per AWC) concerned State Governments and the entire including finishing, flooring, painting, cost of the new construction/upgradation of the plumbing, electrification, wood work, etc. AWC is to be borne by Vednata. The MWCD in will be met from the ICDS funds in the ration consultation with the respective State 60:40 between Centre and State. Governments is identifying the locations where

3.26. Under 14th Finance Commission the AWC buildings are to be constructed/ Award, extensive powers have been vested upgraded in clusters of 25-30 AWCs in a particular district for effective impact. with Panchayati Raj Institutions for making provisions of drinking water and sanitation 3.28 The first such Model AWC constructed facilities. Construction of toilets and by Vedanta at Sonepat,Haryana was provision of drinking water in Anganwadi inaugurated by Hon'ble Minister, WCD on Centres (without toilets and drinking water 24.06.2015. facilities) are being taken up in convergence with Ministry of Panchayati Raj.

Construction of Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) in CSR by Vedanta Foundation:

3.27. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between MWCD and Vedanta on 21st September, 2015 for a period of three years for construction of 4000 AWC buildings through its own resources under Corporate Social Responsibility primarily in the States of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar,

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t h G r a n t s a w a r d e d b y 1 3 F i n a n c e was taken up with the Ministry of Finance and Commission for construction of AWC allocation have been increased from Buildings: Rs.8,335.77 crore to Rs.15,483.77 crore. Due to delay in finalization of cost sharing ratio 3.29 13th Finance Commission had also between Centre and States/UTs for ICDS awarded State Specific Grants to the States of Scheme by the Ministry of Finance, West Bengal (Rs. 300.00 Crores), Madhya Empowered Programme Committee (EPC) Pradesh (Rs.400.00 Crores), Maharashtra meetings for consideration of APIPs of all 36 (Rs.300.00 Crores), Odisha (Rs.400.00 States/UTs for the year 2015-16 have been held Crores), Jharkhand (Rs.432.0 Crores) and in December, 2015 and Administrative Chhattisgarh (Rs . 150 . 00 Crores) for Approval amounting to Rs.7,998.36 crore for construction of Anganwadi Centres. On the ICDS General and Training, Rs.6,874.25 crore basis of recommendations of the Ministry of for Supplementary Nutrition Programme and WCD, the Ministry of Finance have already Rs.171.71 crore for construction of 28,619 released three instalments of grant to these AWC buildings in convergence with MNREGA States for the year 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14 have been conveyed to States/UTs. and 2014-15. Training & Capacity Building Grant in aid for construction of AWC Building under restructured ICDS: 3.32 Achievement of the ICDS programme goals depends largely on the capacity of the 3.30. Under Restructured ICDS Scheme, frontline workers in their day to day delivery of Grant-in-aid at the rate of Rs.4.5 lakhs per services ensuring desired quality and AWC Building construction in the cost sharing effectiveness. Recognizing this, since its ratio of 75:25 between the Centre and States has inception ICDS Scheme provides for regular also been allowed from the year 2013-14 and training of all the functionaries to enhance their first instalment of Rs.723.59 crores was capacity. Three types of training are provided to released for construction of 44,709 AWC nd Anganwadi Workers (AWWs), Anganwadi H e Buildings in 2013-14. During 2014-15, 2 and l p e r s ( AW H s ) , S u p e r v i s o r s a n d final instalment of grant for construction AWC CDPOs/ACDPOs viz. induction training (on building were released to Chhatisgarh (Rs . initial appointment/placement), job training 3504 . 00 lakh), Madhya Pradesh (Rs.6422.81 (one-time, full course) and refresher training lakhs), Tamilnadu (Rs.3788.82 lakhs), (short duration, once in 2 years). A separate Arunachal Pradesh (Rs.1570.13 lakhs) and training unit within the MWCD, viz. ICDS Uttarakhand (Rs.128.68 lakhs). Training Unit, is responsible for processing and Implementation of ICDS Scheme as per approval of the annual training action plans State Annual Programme Implementation along with release of grants to States/UTs and Plan (APIP) periodic review of the progress.

3.31 The budgetary allocation for some of the State Training Action Plans (STRAPs)

Centrally sponsored scheme including ICDS 3.33 Under the ICDS Training programme, all were rationalized by the Government. In view States/UTs are required to submit annual State of the decision to give a substantially higher Training Action Plans (STRAPs) delineating devolution of taxes i.e.42% to States by the th details of various types of training programmes 14 Finance Commission in expectation that for ICDS field level functionaries, which are States shall contribute higher share from the proposed to be undertaken during the financial additional untied resources available to them. year. In the current FY 2015-16, STRAPs have Initially an amount of Rs.8,335.77 crore have been received from 32 been allocated under ICDS. The matter

Child Development 32 States/UTs and the same are under process of (iv) Director, NIPCCD- Member approval. In the meantime, an amount of Rs.5, (v) Representatives of Department of Health 636.48 Lakh has been released to various & Family Welfare and Department of States/UTs on ad hoc basis as shown at Women and Child Development from the Annexure-XIV. following states as member: Training centres:Training programmes for Western Region- Maharashtra various field functionaries in ICDS are organized through the following: Northern Region- Uttar Pradesh

Southern Region- Telangana Anganwadi Workers Training Centres( AW T C s ) f o r t h e t r a i n i n g o f Eastern Region- Odisha Anganwadi Workers and Helpers; North-Eastern Region- Assam Middle Level Training Centres( M LT C s ) f o r t h e t r a i n i n g o f Supervisors National Early Childhood Care and Education and Instructors of AWTCs; (ECCE) Policy

State Training Institute for the trainingof 3.34 Ministry has formulated the National Instructors of MLTCs and Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) CDPOs/ACDPOs in Tamil Nadu; and Policy and the same has been approved and notified by the Government of India in the gazette Na t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e o f P u b l i on 12.10.2013. The Policy lays down the way cCooperation and Child forward for a comprehensive approach towards Development (NIPCCD) and its four ensuring a sound foundation for survival, growth Regional Centres (in Guwahati, and development of child with focus on care and Lucknow, Bengaluru and Indore) for early learning for every child. It recognizes the training of CDPOs/ACDPOs and synergistic and interdependent relationship between Instructors of MLTCs. the health, nutrition, psycho-social and emotional As on 31 December 2015, a total of 498 needs of the child. This would add impetus to the AWTCs and 30 MLTCs were operational ECCE activities mentioned in the revised service package of ICDS. across the States/UTs. State-wise operational AWTCs and MLTCs are shown at Annexure- 3.35 In view of the furtherance of the objectives of XV. the National ECCE Policy the following have been Joint Training Programmes for frontline formulated and circulated to all states and UTs: workers of National Health Mission and National ECCE Curriculum Framework: The ICDS: In a recent initiative, a committee purpose of the framework is to promote quality and comprising of the following members has excellence in early childhood education by been constituted for planning and providing guidelines for practices that would implementation of Joint Training promote optimum learning and development of all Programmes for frontline workers of National young children and set out the broad arrangement Health Mission and the ICDS: of approaches and experiences rather than detailed (i) Additional Secretary, MWCD - defining of the content. A cautious approach is Chairperson being adopted to not provide a detailed curriculum/syllabus which would be prescriptive (ii) Joint Secretary (ICDS), MWCD- and 'delivered' to the young children in a 'straight Member jacketed manner'. The Curriculum Framework (iii) Representative from MoH&FW- calls attention to the common principles and Member developmental tasks, at the same time, respecting

33 Annual Report 2015-16 the diversity in the child rearing practices and also will lay down the regulation and proper contextual ECCE needs maintenance of norms and standards in the early

Quality Standards for ECCE: The main childhood care and education system and for matters connected therewith. purpose of this document is to provide a framework that will assess the implementation 3.38 As per the mandate of the National ECCE of the ECCE programmes across the country Policy, 16 States have initiated action and have and assist the ECCE centres and service taken steps to constitute their State ECCE Council. providers in developing and maintaining 3.39 ECCE Cell has been operationalized within dynamic quality programmes that reflect the MWCD. The cell is currently headed by Joint objectives, the programmes, standards and Secretary, who is assisted by Deputy Secretary practices of the ECCE policy. It provides an and Under Secretary and Section Officer. ECCE opportunity for the authorities to ensure on a Cell has been active in developing guidelines, regular basis that the standards and practices of framework and practices in the area of the programmes are being maintained. Curriculum and Training to facilitate the roll out Age Appropriate Child Assessment Cards: of the ECCE policy at the AWC level.

Age appropriate child assessment Cards have Annual Curriculum Contextualization been developed for use for formative assessment of children in the age bracket of 3.40 All the States/Union Territories have carried 3-6 years. out Annual ECCE Curriculum Development and contextualization as per the National ECCE 3.36. The National ECCE Curriculum Curriculum Framework. In this regard NIPCCD Framework, the Quality Standards for ECCE (National Institute of Public Cooperation and and Age Appropriate Assessment Cards have Child Development), Delhi and 4 other Regional been prepared, notified and circulated to all Centres of NIPCCD (Guwahati, Bangalore, States and UTs and also uploaded on the Indore and Lucknow) have coordinated with the MWCD website. respective states from their region to enable National ECCE Council and ECCE Cell development and contextualization of the state

3.37 Government of India has notified the specific ECCE curriculum, related activity books resolution for National ECCE Council and the for children and PSE kits for transaction of the same has been circulated to all states. The Annual Curriculum. The following process has been adopted towards this: National ECCE Council will lay the national vision and strategy for ECCE in India. It will be At State/UT level the respectivedepartment a national level organization under the Ministry has taken up the task of engaging of Women and Child Development, technical resource agencies and experts Government of India, providing systems of and developed Annual Curriculum which training, curriculum framework, standards and details out a theme based learning related activities; and promoting action research experiences and activities for children. It with an aim to improve the field of early provides theme based monthly, weekly childhood care and education. The main and daily plans of what kind of learning objective of the National Early Childhood Care experiences and activities to be transacted and Education (ECCE) Council is to embed the in the AWCs. The Annual Curriculum concept and practice for holistic and integrated embeds all the principles and practices development with requisite quality for the laid out in the National Curriculum young children in the age group of 0-6 years. Framework for ECCE.

The Council would promote ECCE policies and At Regional level, each Regional advance evidence-based practices in families, Centre,NIPCCD has formed a Regional communities and society at large. It Resource

Child Development 34 Group (RRG) comprising of the 3.43 The fixed monthly ECCE Day is a platform representative from State for interface between the Anganwadi Worker and departments, experts who have helped the parents/community. The ICDS functionaries the states to develop and would organize activities for advocacy, contextualize the curriculum. awareness generation and involvement of parents

The RRGs in all regions have heldseveral and community. Further, it is an opportunity to meetings and provided continuous inform parents about the progress of their child on growth, development and learning milestones. process of technical guidance to all States and UTs to develop their 3.44 Currently Fixed Monthly Village ECCE respective Annual Contextualized Day is being organized in Anganwadis with local Curriculum. community participation for parent/community

involvement and awareness generation. 28 States/UTs have completed theirrespective Annual Training of ICDS Functionaries on ECCE

Contextualized Curriculum . 3.45 With the development of Annual States/UTs will roll out the Contextualized Curriculum, Assessment Cards, AnnualCurriculum in their AWCs Activity Books for children it has become after training the different imperative to conduct ECCE training for functionaries. different functionaries for implementing the

Pre-school Education Kit (PSE) Kit and ECCE curriculum in the AWCs. Several initiatives have been taken up by MWCD and Activity Book NIPCCD to that effect. 3.41 Pre-school Education (PSE) Kits are An Indicative Action plan for Roll out being provided to all AWCs and Mini AWCs ofCurriculum has been circulated to the @ of Rs.3000/- per Anganwadi Centre per States/UTs for action. annum across the country for effective implementation of ECCE in all Anganwadis. AGuideline for Roll out of the States/UTs are developing age appropriate AnnualContextualized Curriculum and activity books for 3-6 years (3-4 years, 4-5 Training of ECCE in Anganwadi centres and 5-6 years) in conjunction with the Annual was circulated to States/UTs for action on Curriculum. Activity Books will be kept in 24.07.2014. This document describes the the AWCs and will be displayed during the details of training required for different ECCE Day for parents and family members. ICDS functionaries at different levels,

ECCE Day preparation for roll out of the Annual C u r r i c u l u m i n t h e AW C s a n d 3.42 A critical initiative of ECCE is the Fixed recommended steps to be taken by State Monthly ECCE Day, to be organized once officials to facilitate the roll out process. every month at the AWCs. Minimum grant in Adetailed training module for State aid for ECCE day celebration is Rs.1,000/- per LevelMaster Trainers (SLMT) has been AWC/Mini AWC per annum on the basis of developed by MWCD has been sent to 60:40 between Centre and State for meeting the NIPCCD for them to carry out training of expenses of ECCE Day. Most of the States/UTs SLMTs in all the 5 regional centres of have fixed a day in every month to organize NIPCCD. activities for the parents and community on the guidelines provided by the Ministry. The same NIPCCD and the Regional Centres has been uploaded on the website of the haveconducted the SLMT training and Ministry and also circulated to all States/UTs sensitization programme for State Officials for planning and implementation.

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on ECCE Policy and Curriculum Roll World Bank assisted “ICDS Systems out most of the states. Ministry of Strengthening & Nutrition Improvement Women and Child Development has Project (ISSNIP)” (formerly called ICDS-IV released an amount of Rs. 6946.74 Project) st lakhs as 1 instalment of grant to the 3.49 The Ministry has formulated a specific States/UTs for conducting Level- 2 project on ICDS called, “ICDS Systems (Supervisors) Training of District Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement Project” Level Master Trainers (DLMTs) and (originally called as 'ICDS-IV' Project) run with Level- 1 Training of Anganwadi financial assistance from the International Workers under ECCE Policy. Development Association (IDA). ISSNIP is a two- Resources and Documentation phased, 7- year project with an overarching goal of 3.46 Design Framework of innovative supporting Government of India's efforts to design options for reconstructing and improve nutritional and early childhood creating new AWCs with Building as a development outcomes of children, with a focus on Learning Aid (BaLA) concept: The National 162 districts across eight States ( Andhra Pradesh, Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Policy and the Broad Framework for Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh), most of Implementation envisions the Anganwadi which have higher proportion of child under- Centre (AWC) as a “vibrant child friendly ECD nutrition. The Department of Economic Affairs has centre” with adequate infrastructure, financial earmarked an amount of US $450 million of IDA and human resources for ensuring a continuum assistance to the proposed project. The project has of ECCE in a lifecycle approach and attaining been designed to strengthen the ICDS systems for child development outcomes. The vision of effective programme implementation in selected “vibrant child friendly ECD centre” calls for States/districts through techno-managerial support strong interconnection between the goals of the and decentralized district based ICDS planning. It programme, the objectives of the services has been positioned as a separate but integral provided, the quality standards and non- intervention in the overall ICDS strengthening and negotiable criteria to achieve quality and how restructuring proposal of the Ministry. The project the adaptation of existing built environment or will undertake operations research and conduct design of new infrastructure can help pilots of potentially more effective approaches for proactively in achieving them through sensitive ICDS to achieve programme outcomes. design of spaces and settings.

3.47 A Design Framework of innovative 3.50 The Phase –I of the project was to be design options with the concept of BaLA concluded on 31st December 2015. The project (Building as Learning Aid) for Anganwadi/ however could not achieve its target within the ECCE Centres addresses these issues stipulated timeframe, due to various administrative intrinsically. In this context a comprehensive reasons. The project has been therefore restructured design framework for AWCs have been with certain modifications in activities and developed for different target groups which are extension of timeframe by two years, i.e. up to 30th (a) Administrators and Planners (b) December 2017. The Amended and Restated Implementing Agencies and (C) Supervisors Financing Agreement has been signed between and Anganwadi Workers/ECCE Teachers. Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of 3.48 This has been comprehensively Finance and International Development developed by an experienced interdisciplinary Association (IDA) on 29th September 2015. The team at VINYÃS, Centre for Architectural Restructured ISSNIP, beside focussing on thematic Research & Design and printed by the World incremental learning of front-line ICDS Bank. functionaries and activities on Behaviour Change

Child Development 36 Communication (BCC), also envisages to 2015. A Sub-group of Inter-Ministerial include ICT-enabled Real Time Monitoring Group (IMG) has been constituted under (ICT-RTM) of ICDS as a core activity. the Chairpersonship of Director General,

Cooperation with Development Partners Central Statistics Office (CSO) to guide the technical matters and other processes 3.51 Several international agencies/ relating to strategic priority. Director development partners including UNICEF (ICDS), Ministry of Women & Child provide technical assistance to ICDS Development has been nominated as a programme both at the central and State level. member of the said committee. Some of them are given below: CARE India:Supporting the Ministry in GoI-UNICEF Programme of Cooperation strengthening ICDS MIS.

3.52 The partnership between UNICEF and the Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Government of India (GoI) spans over more than Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG)–SABLA 60 years. UNICEF has continued its support to 3.54 A comprehensive scheme for the holistic government in enhancing systems and improving delivery of services to women and children development of adolescent girls called 'Rajiv especially from the vulnerable and marginalized Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of sections. The Basic Agreement that provides basis Adolescent Girls – Sabla' is being implemented of the relationship between the GoI and UNICEF in 205 selected districts across the country, using dates from 10 May 1949 and was amended on 5 the ICDS platform. Sabla aims at an all-round April 1978. Over the last 60 years, a succession of development of adolescent girls (AGs) of 11-18 Country Programmes has been implemented in years by making them self-reliant by facilitating conformity with the Basic Agreement. Currently access to learning, health and nutrition through the Govt. of India collaborates with UNICEF various interventions such as health, education, vocational training etc. based on an agreed five year Country Programme Action Plans (CPAP). The current CPAP for 3.55. The scheme Sabla is a centrally sponsored 2013-17 has been signed between the Ministry of scheme and is being implemented through the State Women & Child Development and UNIICEF. Governments/UTs. Anganwadi Centre is the focal point for the delivery of the services. The scheme 3 . 53 . Besides UNICEF, following has two major components: (i) Nutrition and (ii) Non Nutrition. Nutrition containing 600 calories, Development Partners also support the ICDS 18-20 grams of protein and micronutrients @ Rs. Scheme: 5/- per beneficiary per day for 300 days in a year is DFID(Department for being given in the form of Take Home Ration or InternationalDevelopment, Govt. of Hot Cooked Meal to 11-14 years out-of-school United K i n g d o m ) : P r o v i d e s t e c h n i c a l assistance to ICDS in

three States (Odisha, MP and Bihar) and also at the central level to support roll-out of the revised MIS in ICDS.

WFP(World Food Programme):Provides technical assistance to the Ministry at the

central level and also provides technical support in ICDS

implementation. A Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2015-18 has been signed between Government of India and UN World Food Programme in August 37 Annual Report 2015-16 welfare, Adolescent Reproductive Sexual Health (ARSH), child care practices and Life Skill Education and accessing public services. 16-18 year old AGs are also given vocational training. The integrated package of services being provided to adolescent girls under Sabla is as under:-

girls and all girls of 14-18 years age (out of school and in school girls).While the nutrition component aims at improving the health

&nutrition status of the adolescent girls the non-n u t r i t i o n c o m p o n e n t a d d r e s s e s t h e developmental needs. In the Non-Nutrition Component, the Out of school Adolescent

Girls (11-18) years are being provided Iron Folic Acid (IFA)supplementation, Health check-up and Referral services, Nutrition & Health Education, Counseling/Guidance on family

Child Development 38 Services i) Nutrition provision (600 calories and 18-20 gm of protein and micronutrients, @Rs.5 per beneficiary per day for 300 days in a year) ii) Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation iii) Health check-up and Referral services iv) Nutrition & Health Education (NHE) v) Counselling/Guidance on family welfare, ARSH, child care practices and home management vi) Life Skill Education and accessing public services Vocational training for girls aged 16 and above under National Skill Development Program (NSDP)

Funding pattern Kishori Shakti Yojna (KSY)

3.56 The cost sharing ratio between the centre 3.58 The scheme KSY is being implemented and the state will be same as that for ICDS in the using the infrastructure of Integrated Child ratio of 50:50 for nutrition and 60:40 for rest of Development Services (ICDS). The objectives the components, as decided by Ministry of of the Scheme are to improve the nutritional Finance for the scheme ICDS including Sabla. and health status of girls in the age group of 11- For eight North Eastern States (Arunachal 18 years as well as to equip them to improve Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and upgrade their home-based and vocational Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim) and three special skills; and to promote their overall development category Himalayan States (H.P., J&K and including awareness about their health, personal Uttrakhand), the share of Centre and State/UT hygiene, nutrition, family welfare and will be in the ratio of 90:10 and Union Territories management. Two/Three AGs per Anganwadi will be funded 100% of the financial norms or the Centers (AWCs) are targeted under this scheme actual expenditure incurred whichever is less. who are also provided supplementary nutrition

3.57 Under Sabla, during 2015-16, a sum of by the State Governments/UTs. With the launch of the scheme Sabla, KSY continues to operate Rs. 475.5 crore were earmarked for the scheme, (where operational) in the remaining districts. against which, a sum of Rs. 461.95 crore have The scheme provided for Rs.1.1 lakh per been released to States (as on 14.03.2016). 92.7 project per annum. The cost share between lakh beneficiaries have been covered for centre and state for KSY is same as for the non- nutrition and 24,791 adolescent girls provided nutrition component of Sabla. During the year vocational training as per physical progress 2015-16, Rs. 545.56 lakh have been released to reported by States as on 31.12.2015. State-wise States/UTs under KSY. funds released and beneficiaries covered under Sabla during 2015-16 (as on 31.12.2015) is at Annexure-XVI.

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4

Child Protection and

Welfare

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 4

Child Protection and Welfare

4.1 India is home to almost 19% of the child, and has also declared these as key priority world's children. More than one third of the areas. country's population, around 440 million, is 4.4 As children's needs are multispectral, below 18 years. The strength of the nation lies interconnected and require collective action, the in having healthy, protected, educated and Policy aims at purposeful convergence and strong well-developed children who may grow up to coordination across different sectors and levels of be productive citizens of the country. It is governance; active engagement and partnership estimated that around 170 million or 40 per with all stakeholders; setting up of a cent of India's children are vulnerable or comprehensive and reliable knowledge base; experiencing difficult circumstances provision of adequate resources; and sensitization characterized by their specific social, and capacity development of all those who work economic and geo-political situations. All for and with children. The National Plan of these children need special attention. Action for children is under preparation. I. L A W S , P O L I C Y A N D National Commission for Protection of the PROGRAMMES FOR CARE AND Child Rights (NCPCR) PROTECTION OF CHILDREN 4.5 The National Commission for Protection of National Policy for Children (NPC), 2013 Child Rights(NCPCR) , a statutory body , was set 4.2 The Government has adopted a new up in March 2007 under the Commission for National Policy for Children (NPC, 2013) on Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005, an Act of 26th April, 2013. The Policy reaffirms the Parliament(December, 2005). The Commission's government commitment to the realization of mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies, the rights of all children in the country. It Programmes and Administrative Mechanisms are recognizes every person below the age of in consonance with the Child Rights perspective eighteen years as a child and that childhood is as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also an integral part of life with a value of its own, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. and a long term, sustainable, multispectral, (For more details on NCPCR, please refer to integrated and inclusive approach is necessary chapter-12 of the report) for the harmonious development and The Protection of Children from Sexual protection of children. Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012:

4.3 The Policy lays down the guiding 4.6 To deal with child abuse cases, the Government principles that must be respected by the has brought in a special law such as “The National, State and local Governments in their Protection of Children from Sexual Offences actions and initiatives affecting children. The (POCSO) Act, 2012”. The Act has come into force Policy has identified survival, health, nutrition, with effect from 14th November, 2012 along with education, development, protection and the rules framed there under. The Act defines a participation as the undeniable rights of every

43 Annual Report 2015-16 child as any person below the age of 18 years deterrent for child offenders committing heinous and provides protection to all the children from offences such as rape and murder and will protect the offences of sexual assault, sexual the rights of victim. harassment and pornography. An offence is 4.8 Further, to streamline adoption procedures treated as “aggravated” when committed by a for orphan, abandoned and surrendered children, person in a position of trust or authority of child the existing Central Adoption Resource Authority such as a member of security forces, public (CARA) has been given the status of a statutory officer, public servant etc. The Act provides for body to enable it to perform its function more the establishment of Special Courts for trial of effectively. Processes have been streamlined with offences under the Act, keeping the best interest timelines for both in-country and inter-country of the child as of paramount importance at adoption including declaring a child legally free for every stage of the judicial process. The Act adoption. Several rehabilitation and social incorporates child friendly procedures for reintegration measures have been provided for reporting recording of evidence, investigation institutionalization and non-institutionalization of and trial of offences. The National Conference children. The variety of non-institutional options on effective implementation of the provision of include: sponsorship and foster care including POCSO Act, 2012 was held in New Delhi on group foster care for placing children in a family 14th January, 2016. environment which is other than child's biological 1. Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection family, which is to be selected, qualified, approved of Children) Act, 2015 and supervised for providing care to children.

4.7 The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of 4.9 Several new offences committed against Children) Act 2015 (JJ Act, 2015) has come children, which are so far not adequately covered into force from 15th January, 2016 repealing the under any other law, have also been made part of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of this law. These include: sale and procurement of Children) Act, 2000. The JJ Act, 2015 is a children for any purpose including illegal comprehensive law with strengthened adoption, corporal punishment in child care provisions for children in conflict with law and institutions, use of child by militant groups, those in need of care and protection. For the offences against disabled children and, first time, offences have been clearly defined kidnapping and abduction of children. and classified as petty, serious and heinous II. SCHEME FOR PROTECTION OF based on provisions of IPC. Under Section 15, CHILDREN special provisions have been made to tackle Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) child offenders committing heinous offences in the age group of 16-18 years. The Juvenile 4.10 In order to provide financial support to State Justice Board has been given the option to Governments and UT Administrations for effective transfer cases of heinous offences by such implementation of the JJ Act, a Centrally children to a Children's Court (Court of Sponsored Scheme, namely the 'Integrated Child Session) after conducting preliminary Protection Scheme (ICPS)', was introduced in 2009. assessment. The provisions provide for placing ICPS aims to create a safety net of dedicated children in a 'place of safety' both during and structures, services and personnel for protection of after the trial till they attain the age of 21 years children, es pecially thos e in difficult after which an evaluation of the child shall be circumstances. The objective is to contribute to conducted by the Children's Court. After the improvement in the wellbeing of children in evaluation, the child is either released on difficult circumstances, as well as to the reduction probation and if the child is not reformed then of vulnerabilities to situations and actions that lead the child will be sent to a jail for remaining to abuse, exploitation, abandonment and separation term. The enactment of this law will act as a of children from their families.

Child Protection and Welfare 44 4.11 The Scheme provides financial support maintained for the protection of children at to State Governments/UT Administrations for national, state and district level and quality of running services for children either by services is up to the mark. The service delivery themselves or through suitable NGOs These structures are namely; State Child Protection services include (a) Homes of various types for Societies (35), State Adoption Resource Agencies children;(b) Emergency Outreach services (32) and District Child Protection Units (640). through Childline India Foundation; (c) Open 4.13 In 2015-16, i.e. up to 31.12.2015 under the Shelters for children in need of care and Scheme, 313 Specialised Adoption Agencies protection in Urban and Semi Urban Areas; (d) (SAAs) and 1448 Homes of various types have Family Based Non-Institutional Care through been funded. These provide comprehensive Sponsorship, Foster Care and Adoptions. rehabilitation services to children including food, 4.12 Statutory Services & Delivery clothing, day and night shelter, education, medical Structures: Financial assistance under the facilities, etc. to around 78,463 children. For Scheme is also provided for setting up of improving the quality of infrastructure in the statutory bodies under the JJ Act namely; Child Homes, assistance has been provided this year for Welfare Committees (CWCs) and Juvenile up gradation of 86 Homes. Grants for construction Justice Boards (JJBs). As reported by State of 08 new Homes have been released for uncovered Governments/UT Administrations, 644 CWCs areas. Further 318 open shelters have also been and 647 JJBs have so far been set up across the funded under ICPS which provide; inter alia, bridge country. The Scheme provides for dedicated education, vocational training, food, etc. to children structures to ensure that proper focus is living on the streets.

Table 4.1 :

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4.14 Utilization of Budget: Continuation during 2015-16. The URL of Track Child is of the ICPS in the XII Plan has been approved www.trackthemi ssingchild.gov.in with revised norms and structures from 1st 4.17 Progress of Track Child: As on April, 2014, with a cumulative budget of Rs. 18.01.2016, out of 17215 Police stations, 10352 3000.33 crores, including a central share of have started making entries of missing/ recovered Rs. 2350.00 crores and a state share of Rs. children in Track Child. Out of 617 CWCs, 399 are 650.33 crores. In the financial year, 2015-16 updating records of children and out of 607 JJBs, proposals of 35 States/UTs and Childline 304 are entering data of children on Track Child India Foundation have been considered by the portal. Out of 5613 CCIs, 4167 are making entries inter-ministerial Project Approval Board of children in their care. Since January 2012, a total (PAB), set up for appraisal and approval of of 1,07,317 children have been matched through the the financial proposals received under the system. 10,352 Police stations have entered the Scheme. The budget allocation for the year information of 1,90,501 missing children. 2015 -16 under ICPS is Rs. 402.00 crores. An amount of Rs. 362.23 crores has been released 4.18 Khoya-Paya: In the case of missing till 31st December, 2015 under the Scheme as child, information is extremely important, and so against the previous year's expenditure of is speed. Therefore, it was felt that the use of 448.43 crores. Year and state-wise details of social media can play a pivotal role in searching expenditure are at Annexure-XVII. missing children. The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched Khoya-Paya on 2nd 4.15 Sensitisation of State Functionaries: June 2015.Khoya-Paya, is an enabling platform, NIPCCD is the nodal agency for trainings and where citizens can report missing children as well capacity building of functionaries under the as sightings of their whereabouts without loosing ICPS. Efforts have been made this year to much time. Found children can also be reported. involve the States in imparting trainings to the Any citizen can register on Khoya-Paya by using ICPS functionaries including the members of an Indian Mobile number. Objectives of Khoya- two statutory bodies set up under the JJ ACT Paya are as follows:- 2000, the CWCs and JJBs. More than 1800 functionaries under ICPS at the State and Speedy reporting of missing and found District levels have been trained by the end of children. third quarter of 2015-16. Locating missing children through sitebased

4.16 Track Child: Track Child portal has been interaction. developed to track missing children and to Ci t i z e n s e n c o u r a g e d t o p r o v i d monitor the progress of children residing and einformation of sightings of abandoned, availing various services in different Child Care lost children and those accompanied by Institutions (CCIs) for children under ICPS and suspicious persons. JJ Act. Track Child portal has been functional Citizens can upload information on since 2012. It is a networking and interactive foundchildren. platform for various Stake holders such as Police, Child Welfare Committees (CWCs), 4.19 As per the directions of the Hon'ble Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs), Child Care Supreme Court of India in the matter of WP (C) Institutions (CCIs), Department of WCD, 75/2012 Bachpan Bachao Andolan Vs Union of National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB), India and Others, Khoya Paya has been integrated NGOs and Citizens etc. During the year as a module under the citizen corner of Track refresher training programmes were organised Child portal for reporting of missing and found for various stake holders. A revised and user children. Mobile Application of Khoya-Paya is friendly version i.e. 2.0 Track Child was also available. Till 18-01-2016 around 564 cases launched for better connectivity and with of missing/sighted children have been closed on enhanced features such as Mobile Application the portal.

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The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and the Union Minister for Communications & Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad launched the Khoya Paya Website-Citizen based website to exchange information on missing & found children, at a press conference, in New Delhi on June 02, 2015.

4.20 Childline Services : Under ICPS, the these Childline projects in 34 States/UTs. For 2015- Ministry has undertaken expansion of the 16 there is a proposed expansion plan to take the service to other parts of the country, with the services to another 68 locations. MWCD has final objective of covering all the districts in the approved 15 out of these 68 locations till date.

XII five year Plan period. In the year 2015-16 4.21 Between the period April, 2015 to Rs. 56.73 crores have been sanctioned to September, 2015, Childline India Foundation Childline India Foundation (CIF) for running have received more than 42,93,137 lakhs calls. A the service. Childline India Foundation is majority of these have been for shelter, medical working in 366 locations as indicated below in assistance, protection from abuse, emotional the table. Childline India Foundation is support and guidance, information regarding partnering with 607 organizations for running referral services and missing children.

Table 4.2 : Status of Childline Services

Year No. of Cities/ No. of partner Grants released districts covered organisations (Rs. in Crores) 2009-10 83 188 9.33 2010-11 125 298 17.89 2011-12 205 449 23.16 2012-13 269 547 30.83 2013-14 278 544 30.04 2014-15 283 543 53.62 2015-16 366 607 56.73

47 Annual Report 2015-16 Railway Childline- A joint initiative of The Scheme for welfare of working children in Ministries of WCD and Railways need of care and protection

4.22 The Ministry of Women and Child 4.25 The Scheme for Welfare of Working Development (MWCD) in collaboration with Children in need of Care & Protection has been the Ministry of Railways has launched a unique subsumed as one of the new component of the programme for the children who come in Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) w.e.f. contact with railways with the objective to the Financial Year 2015-16. The Proposal of respond to the children who are vulnerable and implementing organizations will be scrutinized in in need of care and protection with an emphasis the respective State/UTs Government for the on preventive measures that children can be approval of the Project Approval Board (PAB) reintegrated and unified with the family. for consideration. The budget allocation for the

4.23 The Ministry of Women and Child financial year 2015-16 under this Scheme was Development (MWCD) has entered into a Rs.3.00 crores which was increased to Rs.7.00 crores at RE Stage. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Railways on 19 May 2015, to Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme for further the association and cooperation in the Children of Working Mothers implementation of jointly prepared Standard 4.26 Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme Operating Procedure (SOP) and to ensure the (RGNCS) was launched as a Central Sector care and protection, security, well being of run Scheme with effect from 1st January, 2006 to away, unaccompanied and trafficked children provide day care facilities to children of age who come in contact with the railways and group (0-6 years) of working mothers & other children in other difficult circumstances in a deserving women belonging to families whose systematic and institutionalized manner. monthly income is not more than Rs. 12,000/-. 4.24 The Ministry through Childline India The Scheme provides supplementary nutrition, Foundation (CIF) & its NGO partners has health care inputs like immunization, polio drops, established Child Help desk/Kiosks/Booth in 20 basic health monitoring, sleeping facilities, pre- major railway stations initially. For such an school education (03-06 years), emergency initiative to be successful, citizen participation medicine and contingencies. The scheme is being is of utmost importance. In order to get ordinary implemented presently through Central Social citizens to participate, it has been decided to put Welfare Board, an autonomous organization and posters in all bogies of all trains and on the Indian Council for Child Welfare, a National railway stations. The posters advise the public level non-government organization. to be cautious and conscious of children who 4.27 The scheme has been revised for its may need protection and also advise to what to continuation during the remaining part of the 12th do in case they come across such a child. Five year Plan. The revised norms are effective from 01.01.2016. As per revised scheme, the crèche facility is provided to the children of age group of 6

months to 6 years of working women who are employed for a minimum period of 15 days in a

month or 6 month in a year. The Government assistant is limited to 90% of the schematic pattern or actual expenditure whichever is less and the

remaining 10% expenditure is borne by the Union Minister for Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhu Institution/Organizations actually running the and Union Minister for WCD Smt. Maneka Sanjay creches, The Government grant provided is Gandhi Release of Railway Posters on 25.11.2015 at Rs.1,36,440/- per annum per crèche for 25 New Delhi Railway Station

Child Protection and Welfare 48 children. Honorarium of crèche worker & through gender biased sex selection and post birth crèche helper is now Rs. 3000/- per month & discrimination against girls (in terms of health care, Rs . 1500/ - per month respectively. nutrition and education opportunities). Prevalent Supplementary nutrition has been increased to social constructs that discriminate against girls on Rs.12.00 per day per child. Provision of pre- the one hand, and the availability and misuse of school education (PSE) kit @ Rs. 2000/- per diagnostic tools that enable sex determination on annum has also been made. the other hand posed serious challenges related to

Functional Creches: survival, protection and empowerment of girl child. To address the issue of declining CSR, the 4.28 As on November 2015 the functional Government has introduced Beti Bachao, Beti crèches reported by implementing Agencies Padhao (BBBP) programme. It is a tri-ministerial are:- effort of Ministries of Women and Child Development, Health & Family Welfare and

Human Resource Development. The key elements of the scheme include enforcement of PC&PNDT

Act; nation-wide awareness and advocacy campaign and multi-sectoral action in select 100 districts (low on CSR) in the first phase. There is a

strong emphasis on mindset change through training, sensitization, awareness raising and community mobilization on ground. The State-wise details of functional creches 4.30 Achievements under BBBP are as follows are at Annexure-XVIII.

Details of funds allocated and sanctioned are The Multi-sectoral District Action Plans as under : have been operationalized in 98 districts of 34 State/UTs.

Capacity-building programmes andtrainings have been imparted to Master Trainers to

further strengthen capacities of district level officials and frontline workers. Nine

set of such trainings have been organized covering all States/UTs by NIPCCD, MWCD from April-October, 2015.

III. GIRL CHILD As a part of branding exercise, BBBP logois a 4.29 The Child Sex Ratio (CSR), an indicator of part of all Government of India gender discrimination towards girl child, stands newspaper advertisements issued by at 918 girls per 1000 boys in the age group of 0- different Ministries/Departments bringing 6 years, much lower than the figure of 927 in greater visibility to the issue in the public 2001 Census. The unabated decline in CSR domain since 1961 is a matter of grave concern as it reflects the low status of women in our society Advocacy and Media Campaign for 2015-16 is and indicates her disempowerment. It points at a exhaustive with a 360 degree approach life-cycle continuum of inequity and multiple and includes Radio and TV campaign, deprivations faced by women and girls through- Cinema Halls, IVR based 139 (the out their lives. Declining CSR reflects pre-birth universal railway enquiry number), discrimination manifested community engagement through Song &

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Logo supporthas been given Drama Division, and online digital media. toPanoramaTelevision Private Limited for a media campaign called 'Beti Bachao- 4.31 Engagement and Collaboration on Dadi Poti' to promote the value of the girl BBBP: child in India. Logo support given to Focus Best Practices under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao newsNetwork for a women-centric TV series comprising of 365 capsules Jalgaon, Maharashtra : Digital Guddi Gudda named “Abke Baras Mohe Bitiya Hi Board- a medium for advocacy

Dijo” for a set of 365 motivating and 4.32 Under the BBBP initiative, in order to update, inspirational stories of women. monitor and give visibility to birth statistics, district Collaboration withGirl Risingformalized of Jalgaon in Maharashtra has come up with a for a campaign aligned with BBBP. The digital “Guddi Gudda Board”. Apart from 2013 Girl Rising film, translated in displaying disaggregated birth statistics, this Board Hindi with popular actors from the film acts as a medium for advocacy and information. It industry lending their voice was displays audio video IEC material related to the th premiered in India on 29 initiative. The board is placed in the offices of August 2015 through Star Plus to mark Chief Minister, Chief Secretary, DC, Jalgaon, Zilla the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. Parishad and every Gram Panchayat in Jalgaon District, Maharashtra. Celltick Mobile Media has collaboratedwith WCD to run a campaign through cellphone

broadcast, reaching out to 400 million subscribers.

Logo support given to Ganga

AvahanInitiative for the 35 day long expedition, through which the message of BBBP and awareness

about empowerment of the girl child in India was promoted during all the

halts and events on passing through various states.

Girls Count, a national-level coalitionof civil society organizations, has The digital Beti Bachao BetiPadhao (BBBP) collaborated and aligned with WCD on Guddi Gudda Board is being showcased at the its campaign on 'Intensifying Centre of e-governance under Department of Coordinated Response to Address Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Gender-Biased Sex Selection and all Government of India. forms of Discrimination against Women 4.33 Mansa, Punjab - Project Udaan and Girls' in five critical states of the country namely Haryana, Punjab, Uttar `Mansa district in Punjab has launched an initiative Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat. to inspire its girls to be educated. Under its 'Udaan - Break through has collaborated withWCD Sapneya Di Duniya De Rubaru (Udaan- Live your on “Share Your Story with Your Son”, Dream For One Day)' scheme, the Mansa a digital media campaign on Sexual administration invites proposals from girls Harassment, which will run from belonging to classes VI-XII. These girls have the November-December, 2015. opportunity to spend one day with a professional

Child Protection and Welfare 50 they aspire to be — doctor, police official, 4.36 Adoption Scheme of Villages with Low engineer, IAS and PPS officers, among Child Sex Ratio others. A Face book page has been created for District Administration is encouraging the NGOs to the same where activities and student adopt such villages and work sincerely to bring a experience of the day are regularly updated. change in mind set. Adoption of two villages Sular 4.34 Celebration of Kanjaka Pooja in and Pasiana identified with low girl child ratio by an NGO named Loving Adorable Daughters of

Our Organisation (LADOO). Tree Plantation was organized in the campus of Mata Kaushalya

Hospital, Patiala with the message "Planting a Tree on Birth of a Girl Child".

4.37 Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand

Rallies

The District Authorities are organizing various Rallies with core participation from schools,

Army schools, employees of government departments, etc

4.38 Street plays for generating awareness on

BBBP

District Patiala, Punjab : Celebration of Kanjaka Pooja

The District Administration of Patiala with the help of an NGO organized Kanjaka Pooja where all the lady officers were honoured by the District Administration. The Pooja was performed on 121 Kanjaka girls and Prasad was distributed.

4.35 Certification of Appreciation

On the birth of a girl child, a certificate of appreciation from Deputy Commissioner is given to mothers. 211 mothers have been honoured through this event. Street plays are organized at the villages and in markets to reach out to larger population. Through story visualization, people are getting sensitized towards the problems of sex-selective elimination and issues related to the girl child through a lifecycle approach.

Through a Signature Campaign, Pledge and Oath Ceremony, message of BBBP has reached out to700 students from PG colleges and several Army Personnel.

51 Annual Report 2015-16 child are being felicitated with a token gift for th encouragement and welcome of the child. 24 of every month is observed as a Girl Child day and

various activities such as plantation of trees, felicitation of mothers of girl children are organized.

4.40 Enrollment of girls has been initiated in

Government schools in the district and steps are being undertaken to ensure retention of girls in

schools. Schools have been requested to organize awareness programs amongst the community for

need of survival, care, education and protection of

4.39 Kamrup Metroplitan, Assam

The program was launched on 24th of Jan' 15 (National Girl Child Day) at Sonapur block with plantation of trees in Dimoria high school, procession and street plays on the themes of

BBBP. Various programs are being organized for creating awareness amongst the community for education, care and protection of the girl child. The Task Force Committees at various levels with representatives from various line the girl child. departments have been formed and notified. Child Marriage

4.41 Child marriage is a violation of child rights. According to National Family Health Survey

(NFHS-3), it was estimated that around 47% of married women in the age group of 20-24 years

were married before attaining the age of 18 years. In particular, child marriage has serious health

repercussion on girls, such as frequent pregnancies, miscarriages and early motherhood.

The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA), 2006 :

4.42 The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act

(PCMA), 2006 was enacted repealing the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929, and the Act came into force on 1st November, 2007. PCMA, The logo of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao has been 2006 makes child marriage an offence and painted on Anganwadi centre's Follow-up and prescribes punishment for those whose handholding of pregnant women is done for conducting/abetting/ promoting/permitting/ safe and healthy delivery through programs like solemnizing child marriage. It provides powers to "Panchaamrit" on completion of five months the State Governments to appoint Child Marriage of pregnancy. Mothers giving birth to a girl Prohibition Officers (CMPO) and makes child

Child Protection and Welfare 52 marriages voidable at the discretion of the One Gold Medal, books voucher of Rs. child concerned on attaining legally 10,000/- and a cash prize of Rs. 20,000/-. marriageable age. So far 32 States/UTs have (b) Thirty Five Silver medals, books voucher framed Rules under the Act and another set of of Rs. 3,000/- and a cash prize of 36 states have appointed CMPOs. Meghalaya Rs.10,000/- for each awardees. and Nagaland informed that the Child Marriage is not in prevalence however they 4.45 The Awards for the year 2015 were have adopted the PCMA, 2006. presented by the Hon'ble President of India at a function organized on 14th November, 2015 at IV. CONFERMENT OF AWARDS Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. During the year 4.43 The Government of India instituted three 30 children were awarded with silver medal. The awards namely; (i) National Child Awards for list of Awardees is enclosed at Annexure-XVIX.

Exceptional Achievement, (ii) National National Award for Child Welfare Award for Child Welfare and (iii) Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award. 4.46 The Award was instituted in 1979 to honour five institutions and three individuals for National child Award for Exceptional their outstanding performance in the field of Child Achievement Welfare. The National Award for Child Welfare 4.44 The Award was instituted in 1996 to give includes a cash prize of Rs.3/- lakh and a certificate recognition to children with exceptional for each institution and Rs.1/- lakh and a scroll for abilities who have outstanding achievement in each individual. The Awards for the year 2014 were various fields. The guidelines were revised in presented by the Hon'ble President of India at a March, 2015. These awards are given to function organized on 14th November, 2015 at outstanding achievements in the field Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi. The list of including(i) Innovation in any field including Awardees is enclosed at Annexure-XX. design, (ii) Scholastic achievements (e.g. first position in mathematics in two successive years on National Level, (iii) Sports, (iv) Arts, (v) culture, (vi) Social Service, (vii) Music, (viii) Any other field which deserve recognition as per the decision of Central Selection Committee. Children residing in India of or (a)

Winners of the National Award for Child Welfare for the year 2014 at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 14.11.2015

Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award

4.47 The Award was instituted in 1994 to honour individuals who made outstanding Winners of the National child Award for contribution towards service for children. The Exceptional Achievement Award is given to three individuals who have above the age of 9 years and not exceeding 16 done outstanding work in the fields of child years (as on 31st July of respective years) are development, child welfare and child protection. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 1/- lakh, a eligible. The Award consist of:

53 Annual Report 2015-16 silver plaque and a citation. The Awards for the 'Demands for Grants' in 2008-09. The following year 2015 were presented by the Hon'ble diagram shows total outlays for child specific President of India at a function organized on schemes as percentage of total Union Budget. th 14 November, 2015 at Rashtrapati Bhawan, Total Outlays for Child Specific Scheme as New Delhi. The list of Awardees is enclosed at Percentage of Total Union Budget Annexure-XXI.

V. Child Budgeting 2015-16 3.25

4.48 Public expenditure meant for the 2014-15 4.5

development of the general population can be 2013-14 4.6 expected to have some benefits for children as

2012-13 4.7 well. However, since children comprise one

2011-12 4.5 of the largest disadvantaged sections of Indian

Society, there is strong case for identifying 2010-11 4.1 the protection of public expenditure meant for

2009-10 3.7 addressing the needs of children in particular.

2008-09 3.8

This requires the segregation of schemes

meant specifically for addressing the needs of 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

children, from other development schemes. Source: Budget Provisions for Scheme for the Welfare The total magnitude of budget outlays on of Children, Statement 22, Expenditure Budget Vol. child specific schemes is referred to as the 2011-12, Union Budget, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012- “Child Budget”. Thus the “Child Budget” is 13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 Government of India not a separate budget but a part of the total 4.50 Marginally reduced contribution by the Union Government Budget. Government in BE 2015-16 vis-à-vis RE 2014-15 is 4.49 A statement of 'Child Budgeting ' was on account of enhanced devolution of Union Taxes introduced in the Union Budget for 2008-09(i.e. to States as recommended by the Fourteenth Budget Provisions for Schemes for the Welfare Finance Commission (FFC). Consequent to the of Children , Statement 22, Expenditure Budget acceptance of the FFC award, Plan outlay of the Vol. I, Union Budget 2008-09). This statement Union has come down. However, to keep the has been carried over in subsequent Union budget for such programmes unchanged, It is Budgets, and captures all child specific schemes estimated that any shortfall in the schemes for the in the Union Budget. In 2008-09, when the welfare of children on account of FFC award will 'Child Budgeting' statement was introduced in be made up by the States from their enhanced the Union Budget, the 'Demands for Grants' resources. Therefore, the total resources available with child specific schemes included those of for the schemes for the welfare of Children will be the Ministries of Women an Child remain unaffected. Development, Human Resource Development, Health and Family Welfare, Labour and VI. I N T E R N A T I O N A L COOPERATION Employment, Social Justice and Empowerment, Tribal Affairs, Minority Affairs and Youth 4th Meeting of the Special Commission on the 1 Affairs and Sports. The 'Child Budgeting' 9 9 3 H a g u e I n t e r- c o u n t r y A d o p t i statement now covers 18 'Demands for o n Convention

Grants'(including Union Ministries/ 4.51 The Ministry participated in the 4th Meeting Departments of Atomic Energy, Industrial of the Special Commission on the 1993 Hague Policy and Promotion, Posts, Inter-country Adoption Convention held from 8- Telecommunication and Information and 12 June 2015 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Broadcasting among others), marking a significant increase from an initial eight

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Expert Group Meeting to Review and 2015. The Expert Group meeting was convened Finalize the Regional Plan of Action to End with the objectives to (i) review, refine and finalize Child Labour the Regional Action Plan to End Child Labour in

4.52 The Ministry participated in the South Asia; (ii) assess existing initiative in participated in the 'Expert Group Meeting to addressing/ combating child labour in South Asia; Review and Finalize the Regional Plan of and (iii) map out potential partners/ collaboration to operationalise the Regional Action Plan. Action to End Child Labour' organized by the S A I E VA C R e g i o n a l S e c r e t a r i a t 'Global Summit on Food Fortification' i n collaboration with the SACG, supported 4.53 M i n i s t r y o f Wo m e n a n d C h i l d by ILO and WINROCK International, Hosted Development in 'Global Summit on Food by the SAIEVAC National Mechanism, Fortification' held in Arusha (Tanzania) from 9- Government of Sri Lanka on 8-9 December 11 September 2015.

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5

Gender Budgeting

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 5

Gender Budgeting

5.1 The Government of India is as marking the deadline for the achievement of the committed to promote gender equality in all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In the sectors and at all levels of governance. This is past ten years, the Ministry of Women and Child conspicuous in gender responsive legal and Development and its various affiliates as well as the policy frameworks, policies and programmes training institutes across the country have earnestly as well as establishment of different relevant pursued the goal of achieving gender equality and institutions to advance gender equality and women's empowerment through Gender Budgeting. women's empowerment. In order to advance The focus has been on the dynamic process of the agenda of promoting gender equality and building awareness among the government and mainstreaming gender across sectors, non-government representatives on tools of gender Government of India adopted Gender analysis, planning and monitoring because the Budgeting as a budgetary strategy at the critical activities that constitutes the gender national level in 2005-06 with the budgeting exercise include: introduction of the Gender Budget Statement a) A d d r e s s i n g g a p b e t w e e n p o l i c y as part of our National Budget. commitment and allocation for women 5.2 Gender Budgeting is not an through adequate resource allocation and accounting exercise but an ongoing process to gender sensitive programme formulation ensure that benefits of development reach and implementation; women as much as men. Gender Budgeting is b) Mainstreaming gender concerns in public concerned not only with public expenditures expenditure and policy; and but also with the gender differentiated impact of revenue mobilization by the Government. c) Gender audit of public expenditure, programme implementation and policies. In fact, Gender Budgeting, as an approach, is not confined to budgets alone; rather it covers 5.4 The Ministry of Women and Child analysing various economic policies from the Development as the nodal agency for Gender gender perspective. Gender Budgeting entails Budgeting, has been following a three pronged maintaining a gender perspective at various strategy to pursue the process of Gender stages like programme/ policy formulation, Budgeting in the country: assessment of needs of target groups, review of existing policies and guidelines, allocation i) Placing emphasis on institutional of resources, implementation of programmes, mechanisms and practices in all M i n i s t impact assessment, reprioritization of r i e s / D e p a r t m e n t s o f t h e Government; resources, etc. A gender responsive budget is the culmination of this process. ii) Strengthening internal and external

5.3 For Gender Budgeting in India, 2015 is capacities and building expertise to a significant year, as India completes ten years undertake gender mainstreaming of of commencement of Gender Budgeting as well policies/schemes/ programmes; and

59 Annual Report 2015-16 iii) Initiating the exercise of gender 30% to 99% allocation for women. auditing of existing programmes, iii) Gender Awareness- Policy Appraisal which would then feed into addressing through EFC/PIB Memorandum gaps and strengthening service delivery mechanisms. 5.7 T h e r e v i s e d f o r m a t o f E F C / P I B I. Institutional mechanisms and Memorandum for original cost estimates and practices for Gender Budgeting revised cost estimates issued by Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance on 31st March i) Gender Budgeting Cells – Focal 2014 marks an important landmark in this Point at Ministry/Department level process. All new programmes, projects and 5.5 In order to mainstream gender across schemes (PPS) for which funds are requested are Ministries and Departments and its various to be viewed through a gender lens. Use of this affiliates and the State Government format will encourage gender sensitivity and Departments, the Ministry of Finance women's participation in all new PPSs from the mandated setting up of Gender Budgeting start. It will also ensure that the implementation Cells in each Ministry/Department in 2004- modality of the PPS is gender-sensitive and that 05. As mandated, the Gender Budgeting Cell gender impact assessment is built into the design should comprise a cohesive group of senior/ of the PPS. Item 5 of the revised format seeks middle level officers from the Plan, Policy, information on Gender Analysis of the proposal. Coordination, Budget and Accounts Division The specific questions are given below: of the Ministry concerned. This group should be headed by an officer not below the rank of Briefly explain the specific objectives ofthe Joint Secretary. The functions and working of proposal relating only to women. the Gender Budgeting initiatives may be reviewed at least once a quarter at the level of In case the proposal has gender components, Secretary/Additional Secretary of the please provide the following information in Department. These Cells set up in 57 tabular form as shown below. Ministries and Departments (see Annexure-

XXII), serve as focal points for coordinating Gender Budgeting initiatives, both intra and inter-ministerial.

ii) G e n d e r B u d g e t S t a t e m e n t - Reporting Allocations iv) Using Gender-sensitive Checklists

5.6 A Gender Budget Statement (popularly 5.8 The Ministry of Women and Child known as Statement-20) was introduced in Development has formulated specific guidelines Union Budget 2005-06. It is a reporting in the form of Checklists I and II. Checklist-I is mechanism that can be used by Ministries/ for programmes that are beneficiary-oriented and Departments to review their programmes from a consciously target women. Checklist-II covers gender lens and is an important tool for other “mainstream” sectors and programmes. presenting information on the allocations for These guidelines help in reviewing public women. The Gender Budgetary allocations are expenditure and policy from a gender perspective reflected in two parts. The first part of the to enable identification of constraints in outreach Statement, Part A includes Schemes with 100% of programmes and policies to cover women and allocation for women while Part B of the introduction of suitable corrective action. Statement includes Schemes/Programmes with

Gender Budgeting 60 Checklist I for Gender Specific Expenditure Checklist-II for Mainstream Sectors Conventionally, gender budget analysis, by way of isolation Mainstream sectors like Defence, Power, Telecom, of women related expenditure, has been carried out for Communications, Transport, Industry, Commerce etc. may Ministries/Departments like Health and Family Welfare, consider adopting the following check list to determine the Rural Development, Human Resource Development, Urban gender impact of their expenditure. Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Youth and Sports i. List of all programmes entailing public expenditure Affairs, Labour, Social Justice and Empowerment, Tribal with a brief description of activities entailed. Affairs, Drinking Water, Small Scale Industries and Agro and Rural Industries, Science and Technology, Non- ii. Identifying target group of beneficiaries/users.

Conventional Energy Sources, Textiles and Agriculture. iii. Establishing whether users/beneficiaries are being Suggested steps that may be undertaken by these various categorized by sex (male/female) at present and if Ministries/Departments who are running programmes/ not to what extent would it be feasible. schemes of a gender specific nature i.e. where the targeted iv. Identify possibility of undertaking special beneficiaries are primarily women are as follows: measures to facilitate access of services for Planning and Budgeting women- either through affirmative action like i. List of schemes and programmes which are quotas, priority lists etc. or through expansion of services that are women specific like all women gender specific police stations, women's special buses etc. ii. Briefly indicating activities undertaken under the v. Analysing the employment pattern in rendering of programme for women. these services/programmes from a gender iii. Indicating expected output indicators like number perspective and examining avenues to enhance of women beneficiaries, increase in employment of women's recruitment.

w o m e n , p o s t p r o j e c t i n c r e a s e i n vi. Focus on special initiatives to promote participation resources/income/skills etc. of women either in employment force or as users. iv. Quantifying allocation of resources in annual vii. Indicating the extent to which women are engaged in budget and physical targets thereof. decision-making processes at various levels within the v. Assessing adequacy of resource allocation in sector and in the organizations and initiating action to terms of population of targeted beneficiaries that correct gender biases and imbalances. need the concerned schematic intervention, the T h e s e e x e r c i s e s c a n b e c o m m e n c e d b y e a c h trend of past expenditure etc. Ministry/Department of the Government, to start with, for a Performance Audit few select programmes/schemes which may be selected either in terms of their perceived gender impact, or the vi. Reviewing actual performance- physical and selection can be based on considerations of heaviest budget financial vis-a-vis the annual targets and allocation. Based on the result of carrying out the above identifying constraints in achieving targets (like steps, the gender budgeting exercise may be institutionalized need for strengthening delivery infrastructure, in the manner detailed in checklist. capacity building etc.) vii. Carrying out reality check- Evaluation of programme intervention, incidence of benefit, v) Annual Action Plan of the Gender identifying impact indicators like comparative status Budgeting Cells. of women before and after the programme etc. viii. Compiling a trend analysis of expenditure and 5.9 Achieving change requires policy and programme actions to improve women's access to output indicators and impact indicators. scarce and valued resources and remove various Future Planning and Corrective Action ix. Addressing constraints identified from step (vi) impediments to their participation in public above. sphere, raising awareness and so on. In order to x. Establishing requirement of Resources in terms of develop stronger accountability mechanisms population of targeted beneficiaries/ magnitude of towards gender budgeting, and achieve the perceived problems like IMR, MMR, literacy ratio desired change, the Ministry has been pursuing etc. xi. Reviewing adequacy of resources available – with all the Gender Budgeting Cells (GBCs) of financial and physical like trained manpower etc. the Central Ministries / Departments to prepare xii. Planning for modification in policies and/or an Action Plan for the year 2015-16 indicating programmes/schemes based on results of review. areas of gender concern that requires focussed attention of the Ministry. In order to

61 Annual Report 2015-16 systematically mainstream gender and programmes at the National level and also at the strengthen the GBCs, Ministries/Departments of State Level. For this, the MWCD has been engaged Home Affairs, Tribal Affairs, Drinking Water in conducting a number of trainings, workshops, and Sanitation, External Affairs, Heavy one to one interactions/discussions and I n d u s t r i e s , Wa t e r R e s o u r c e s , R i development of resource material. The second v e r Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, edition of the Gender Budgeting Handbook has Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Earth been developed by the Ministry to facilitate such Sciences, Department of Consumer Affairs, interaction with both the Government and Non- Department of Telecommunications, D e p a r Government stakeholders. Over the last few years, t m e n t o f S o c i a l J u s t i c e a n d in view of the growing gender budgeting awareness Empowerment, Department of Posts and in both the Central Ministries as well as State Department of Scientific and Industrial Governments, the demand for capacity building and Research (DSIR) have prepared their annual technical support is rising. action plan for the year 2015-16. 5.11 While a number of trainings have been II. Capacity Building for Gender conducted in the past, still there is a need for Budgeting covering a large number of stakeholders who are i) Organising/supporting GB trainings involved in various stages of governance, i.e. p o /Workshops l i c y m a k i n g , p l a n n i n g , b u d g e t i n g , implementation, monitoring and evaluation. 5.10 While the Ministry of Finance has been instrumental in institutionalizing the GB 5.12 A Plan Scheme for Gender Budgeting was process in Central Ministries/Departments, launched in the year 2008 during the Eleventh the MWCD as the nodal agency for women, Plan period, for conducting trainings/workshops, has been supporting the process. One of the capacity building, research surveys, etc. Under key focus areas of the MWCD has been the Scheme, inter alia, the Ministry undertakes strengthening internal and external capacities many programmes as well as provides financial and building expertise of GBCs to undertake support to Central/ State Government agencies, gender mainstreaming of policies/ schemes/ for the purpose. This scheme is being continued in the Twelfth Plan.

Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Minister, Women and Child Development releasing the second edition of the Gender Budgeting Handbook on 9th October 2015 at VigyanBhawan, New Delhi

Gender Budgeting 62 5.13 An outlay of Rs. 2.00 crore was training programmes, the Ministry organizes one- allocated for the Scheme in the year 2015-16, to- one discussion with senior officials of such for conducting various training programmes and Ministries to provide orientation on gender issues workshops on Gender Budgeting. Out of which within their sectors. This orientation serves as the an amount of Rs. 1.45 crore have been incurred first step to introduce the concept of Gender till December, 2015. During the year 2015-16, Budgeting in these Ministries/Departments. st (up to 31 December, 2015) a total of 30 III. Gender Audit Initiatives training programmes /workshops on the subject were organized by the Ministry against a target 5.15 The third important aspect of Gender of 20 in collaboration with training institutes of Budgeting is undertaking gender audit of specific repute, both at the National and State Level. schemes. With this in view the Ministry developed These included trainings for officers of various a draft Gender Audit Guidelines in and pilot tested Ministries/Departments of Central Government the same on the Dairy Entrepreneurship as well as State level functionaries. Development Scheme (DEDS) of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

(DAHDF), Ministry of Agriculture to identify ii) One-to-one interactions critical gaps and challenges in mainstreaming 5.14 The Ministry has been focusing on gender within the DEDS. The draft Gender Audit mainstream Ministries / Departments which Guidelines was sent to Comptroller and Auditor have large budgetary allocations but are General (CAG) of India and Ministry of Finance perceived as “gender neutral” due to the for consideration for its adoption.The Comptroller constitution of their programmes/schemes and Auditor General of India observed that it was which are not beneficiary focused. Apart from not feasible to create a Gender Audit Cell in the

State Level Post-Budget Consultation on Gender Gender Budgeting workshop in Rural Development for Budgeting, VAMNICOM, Pune, 8-9 June, 2015 Master Trainers, 19-21 August 2015, NIRD, Hyderabad

Gender Budgeting Workshop for State Level Officers, Gender Budgeting Workshop for State Level Officers, Himachal Pradesh, 28-30 September 2015 Sikkim, 19-21 November 2015

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Ms. LopamudraMohanty, Director, MWCD referring to Ms. Preeti Sudan, Additional Secretary, distributing the new Gender Budgeting Handbook in a Gender certificate to a participant in a Gender Budgeting Workshop Budgeting Workshop at IIPA, New Delhi, 4-6 Nov. 2015 at IIPA New Delhi, 4-6 November 2015

CAG office and would rather prefer to State Initiatives on Gender Budgeting mainstream gender audit aspects in regular 5.16 The training programmes of the Ministry of performance audits. On the other hand, the Women and Child Development have also Controller General of Accounts, Internal Audit facilitated adoption of Gender Budgeting by Division, Ministry of Finance has constituted a many State Governments. Group of Officers to examine the draft Gender Audit Guidelines and recommend framework State Governments have used a range of for conduct of gender audit of schemes of the mechanisms to implement Gender Budgeting. Government of India. The first meeting of the These include the identification of a Nodal Group of Officers was held on 7th January 2016 Department for Gender Budgeting; constitution of and it was decided to undertake gender audit on Gender Budgeting Cells; formulation of a State pilot basis for the two schemes namely Indira Policy for Gender; setting up Committees for Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojna (IGMSY) of Oversight; creating a Gender Data Bank; making MWCD and Indira AwasYojana (IAY) of checklists; including a Gender Budget Statement in MoRD. Six Ministries were also identified to the State Budget; Capacity Building; preparation of undertake gender specific studies in 2nd -4th a Brochure and Handbook; and conducting Quarters of 2016-17. Performance Audit and linkages with the RFD.

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6

Plan, Statistics, Research

and Other Activities

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 6

Plan, Statistics, Research

and Other Activities

6.1 The need for an efficient statistical indicators along with the established indicators system in the Ministry for compiling and related to the welfare of women, and to assess the collating quality and credible statistics related to status of women empowerment. The Bureau has the issue of women and children, facilitates arranged frequent meetings with the various line planning and policy making, has been well Ministries which has yielded into commitment recognised. For better planning and and assured cooperation from them in this saga. implementing development schemes/ 6.4 The Bureau has discussed and conducted programmes, a thorough understanding of the several meetings with the concerned stakeholders to multifaceted interactions between a programme develop required indicators for SDGs related to and its social, cultural and economic conditions is required. Therefore, research of ongoing gender issues and especially for Goal-5 which says programmes and certain situational analysis “ Achieve Gender Equality and Empower all also very crucial, in order to sustain the efficient Women and Girls“. It has represented the Ministry progress and attain goals mandates under the in the National Level Consultation Workshop for Ministry. As, the development programmes are Health & Education; SDGs conducted by NITI channelized through a huge bureaucratic setup Ayog. The Bureau will further represent the (Centre and State Governments), it is likely that Ministry in various consultation processes related there would arise some public grievances to the development of suitable indicators for this related to implementation of schemes. The purpose. The Ministry has collaborated with the policy makers are required to listen to these MoSPI for conducting National Consultation grievances raised at the ground level and workshop on data Gaps in Gender Statistics. The Bureau collects information for the Ministry with redress them as the schemes get implemented th for the benefit of the people as a whole and to regard to function on 'Statistics Day' held on 29 speed up the development process. With the June 2015 to bring in focus the subject of knowledge of the grievances at the grass root development of women for the theme “Social level, some corrective measures may also be Development”. The statistical advisor has also taken in implementing these schemes/ represented the Ministry in the programmes.

6.2 The Statistics Bureau in the Ministry has been entrusted to look after the collection and compilation of statistics, sponsoring meaningful research in the fields of welfare and development of women & children, and, to handle the mechanism of redressal of public grievances.

6.3 During the Financial Year 2015-16, National workshop on Gender Statistics this division has developed various statistical on 30th November, 2015, New Delhi

67 Annual Report 2015-16 Conference of Central and State Statistical organisations. Details of funds sanctioned/ released Organisations (COCSO).- during 2015-16 to different organisations for new /

old projects are at Annexure – XXIII. Grant-in-Aid for Research & Publications Scheme Public Grievances

6.5 The Ministry of Women & Child 6.8 The Grievance redressal mechanism is a Development sponsor the projects in the fields part and parcel of an accountability machinery of of welfare and development of women and any administration. Government of India attaches children including Food and Nutrition aspects. top priority to the Public Grievances (PGs) and However, priorities within these broad areas are their redressal. To make the Ministry responsive given to research projects of applied nature and friendly to the people, and effective grievance keeping in consideration plan policies and redressal mechanism has been established in the programmes, and social problems requiring Ministry. Public Grievances received in the urgent public intervention. The research on Ministry are attended on top priority. A Joint various issues of women and children are very Director of the Ministry has been designated as important to understand multifaceted factors Public Grievance Officer. For strong and effective responsible for success and failures of the internal grievances redressal mechanism in the projects of MWCD at the ground level. Ministry, all Divisional Heads in the Ministry and

6.6 The grants covers (i) research including one officer each from all the attached/subordinate action research for the development of offices have been appointed as Nodal Officers for innovative programmes or for testing the public grievances in respect of their Division/ feasibility and efficacy of programmes and Office. The disposal of public grievances is monitored on weekly basis by Secretary (WCD). services; (ii) workshops/seminars/conferences which will be helpful in formulating research 6.9 At present, the following mechanisms for proposal, disseminating research findings or in handling public grievances concerning the Ministry social situational analysis likely to be helpful in of Women and Child Development received from planning, programming and review of National Portal (directly from public), Prime implementation, (iii) monitoring of programmes Minister's Office, President's Secretariat and the (iv) training of personnel and (v) promotion of Department of Administrative Reforms & Public innovative activities. Grant under this category Grievances are being followed; can be made to an institution or a group of On daily basis, Public Grievance institutions for carrying out a specific research Officeraccesses to the National web project with one or more scholars directing it. Portal online and sorts out the grievance The institutions will conduct research study relating to different Bureaus for necessary which is universities, research institutes, and action. The hard copies of the grievances voluntary organizations, professional associations in the field of women and child received are also sent to the concerned officers in the Ministry. development and similar organizations/agencies which have the capacity to do research. Acknowledgments are sent to thoseapplicants Institutions set up and fully funded by Central who do not have the e-mail address or Government/State Governments/ Public Sector mobile number. Those persons having Undertakings also eligible. The voluntary grievances are also informed about the organization should have 3 (three) years' details of the officers who will redress experience after registration. their grievances. In some cases, applicants are advised to contact the 6.7 Against the budget allocation of concerned Central Ministry/Department/Agency where the Rs. 2.00 crores for the year 2015-16, an amount subject matters of the grievances pertain. of Rs. 1.42 crores has been released to different

Other Programme and activities 68 Records of the action taken Women and Child Development which has more reportfurnished by the concerned than 250 nodes of Local Area Network. NIC officers in the Ministry being continued to provide software, hardware and maintained in this Bureau. consultancy support to Ministry in developing

6.10 Large numbers of grievances which are computer based Management Information System. received in physical mode, mostly relate to A team of officers of NIC works in close suggestions e.g. changes in the existing laws coordination with the officials of the Ministry to and policies of the MWCD for improving the maintain existing software and develop new programmes as per the requirement of the Ministry. conditions of women and children in the Country, are forwarded to the concerned 6.13 Brief description of some of the programmes officers in the Ministry. These are generally introduced & latest development in running discussed among the officers of the MWCD. software in the year of 2015-16 by the Ministry The possibility of inclusion of those with the help of NIC are as follows: suggestions in the implementation of schemes eOffice : https://mwcd.eoffice.gov.in is taken care of after due discussion. The Progress Report of grievances received and 6.14 This year, NIC-WCD has implemented disposed of from various sources up-to eOffice Premium product (includes File 31/12/2015 is given in the following table: Management System (eFile), Knowledge Management System (KMS), Leave Management System (eLeave), Tour Management System (eTour), Personnel Information Management System (PIMS), Collaboration and Messaging Services (CAMS)), a G2E/G2G solution developed by National Informatics Centre to provide a one-stop access point to organization information and applications/services in the ministry.

6.11 A p a r t f r o m t h e s c h e m e s a n d programmes that have a direct bearing on the welfare and well-being of the women and children, the Ministry implements a few schemes that help in furthering understanding of the issues of women and children, promote The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. innovative ideas and, thus, indirectly help Maneka Sanjay Gandhi addressing at the launch of the e- Office of WCD Ministry, in New Delhi on December28, 2015. their cause. They are, therefore, considered as schemes for the benefit of the women and Agenda Monitoring System : children. These are discussed in the following paras: 6.14 This system has been developed and Information Technology implemented in the Ministry for the monitoring of works assigned to all senior officers of the Ministry 6.12 National Informatics Centre (NIC) is and is used in the weekly meeting of senior officers. managing the IT-support cell for the Ministry of

69 Annual Report 2015-16 The concerned Bureau Heads are adding Other Programme and activities important issues of the ministry through their Mobile Application (Android). login id and password protected software. Enhanced Searching Mechanism They are updating the status of the issues Citizen information receiving & alerttracking weekly with their decisions and action taken. system on Mobile application and mobile Integrated Track child – an overview: URL version of Trackchild http://trackthemissing child.gov.in/ Missing/Found alert to police(CWO) andalert 6.15 The number of children 'missing' every mechanism for all child protection service year is a great concern for the country. Also, the provider proper development, care, protection and “e-Alerts” for Citizens & all Stakeholders monitoring of 'vulnerable' children living in CARINGS An online adoption system Child Care Institutions (CCIs) are other important issues. The Ministry of Women and http://cara.nic.in Child Development entrusted NIC to develop a 6.18 An online portal “Child Adoption Resource software which not only have a data base of Information and Guidance System - CARINGS” missing children but it also have a provision to has been developed and launched for agencies track the children living in various Child Care handling child adoptions across the country by Institutions (CCIs) under JJ Act and ICPS. linking adoptable children with Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs). The entire process of 6.16 'Track Child' portal has been designed child adoption viz. PAPs seeking to adopt a child, and developed adhering to the guidelines various clearances, adoption process and provided in the Juvenile Justice (Care and monitoring of child in the new found adopted Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and Central home have been covered in the CARINGS portal. Model JJ Rules, 2007 and the provisions laid Salient Features of CARINGS: down in the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). TrackChild portal has two 6.19 The CARINGS portal has been modified as modules i.e. one for the Police to enter per Guidelines governing Adoption of Children, information of missing as well as children 2015. Some of the salient features include:- being recovered/found. The other module is Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) can for the members of the Child Welfare optfrom three States for adoption or Committees, Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) anywhere from the country. and functionaries of Child Care Institutions Provision for uploading of documents by (CCIs). It requires data entry and updating at PAPs various levels such as Police stations, Child Provision for uploading of Home StudyReport Care Institutions (CCIs)/ Homes, Shelters, (HSR) at the level of Specialised Adoption Child Welfare Committees, and Juvenile Agency (SAA)/District Child Protection Justice Boards etc. Unit (DCPU)/State Adoption Resource 6.17 The Khoya-Paya a citizen centric web Agency (SARA). portal has also been integrated as a citizen Online referral of children to PAPs. corner of TrackChild Portal. Some of the key Online acceptance of children by PAPs. features of the integrated TrackChild portal are as: Monitoring of reports by SAA/DCPU/ SARA/CARA Matching of missing children withrecovered/found children. Online approval and No ObjectionCertificate Monitoring of cases of missing children (NOC) process for Inter Country PAPs. through system. Adoption process at SAA level.

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National Portal on Integrated Child Ministry plans its annual strategy considering the Development Services (ICDS):- target audience for spreading awareness about its schemes and programmes. The strategy is based 6.20 ICDS is a flagship programme of on using print, electronic, outdoor, publication of Government of India for the provision of booklet, and other forms of media for essential services like provision of dissemination of information. supplementary nutrition, preschool education, immunization etc. and timely interventions of 6.24 During 2015-16 against a budget allocation of referral medical services, for the targeted Rs. 40 crores (RE), an expenditure of Rs. 37.42 population of children of 0 to 6 years, crore (including LoAs) has been incurred on the adolescent girls, pregnant women and nursing media activities of the Ministry till 11.03.2016. The mothers. To meet the challenges involved in physical activities during 2015-16 are as under: the provision of effective, efficient and better managed services, an MIS system has been (i) Print Media: 8 advertisements were developed and introduced from the inception released in prominent newspapers in Hindi, of the scheme. Various versions of the MIS English and regional languages during software application has been designed and 2015-16 (till 25.02.2016) on the Act and schemes / programmes of the Ministry. introduced in different periods as per the State of Art of ICT. (ii) Video Spots: Three spots of 30 seconds

6.21 In the 2015 besides the development of duration and one spot of 40 second ICDS-MIS, we have started the work for the duration were telecast across the country Integration of Database of Mother & Child through DAVP, Prasar Bharti over Pvt. Tracking System software of Ministry of TV channels and Doordarshan.

Family Welfare & Health with ICDS scheme of (i) Audio Spot: 11 audio spots of different MWCD. After the preliminary studies of the duration were broadcast across the both systems, the ministry has selected one country through DAVP and Prasar Bharti district Faridabad of Haryana state for this work over private FM channels, community of integration and consequently a field visit for radio and All India Radio. the district of Faridabad was recommended for the study of the possibilities for the integration (iv) Outdoor Publicity: A w a r e n e s s of the database of these two ministries. campaign by spreading social messages through LPG Gas Bills was run across the 6.22 Besides above some module like county. APIPs (Annual Programme Implementation Plans) and SOE (Statement of Expenditure) (v) Women of India Exhibition – 2015: the are developed as per the requirement of ICDS first of its kind Women of India Ortganic section of the ministry. Exhibition was organized by the Ministry from 13th to 23rd November, 2015 at Dilli Information, Education & Communication Haat, INA in New Delhi. The theme of (IEC) the exhibition was “Women and Organic 6.23 The vision of the Ministry is empowering Products”. The exhibition was inaugurated women and nurturing children. In order to meet by Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Hon'ble these objectives of the Ministry, the target M i n i s t e r o f Wo m e n a n d C h i l d Development and the Union Minister of population needs to be informed about policies / Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri programmes of the Ministry and they need to Radha Mohan Singh on 13th November, understand the details of various schemes to 2015. avail them. Accordingly, the

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The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and the Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh lighting the lamp to inaugurate the first of its kind Women of India Exhibition with the theme 'Women and organic Products', in New Delhi on November 13, 2015.

6.25 In the exhibition, over 600 women regarded as healthy foods eaten by all but have artisans /entrepreneurs from Leh to lost their popularity over time. To encourage Kanyakumari and from Kohima to Kutch people to come in large numbers in the Mela and participated with their organic products, to know about the benefits of organic products, including large varities of rice,rajma, pulses, the Ministry made entry of visitors free on all spices, honey,tea, amd lemon tea, organic days of the exhibition. mushrooms, Bee wax, handicrafts, ethinic 6.27 The main objective of the exhibition was to foods, pickles and preserves, vegetables and support and encourage women and women-led fruits, fabrics, dyes, dresses, cosmetics, groups and promote organic products. The organic liquid pesticides and fungicides etc. Ministry has got overwhelming response to the

exhibition as more women entrepreneurs / artisans got opportunity to participate and market

their products. The Ministry distributed certificates of participation to the participants.

Reservation for Scheduled Castes/ Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes

6.28 Reservation Policy of the Government of India

in the services is being followed in the Ministry and the organizations under its control. As a cadre

authority, the Ministry has duly reported the reserved vacancies to Department of Personnel & 6.26 The visitors also enjoyed 'Forgotten Training. The attached office i.e. Food and Foods/ Millets such as jhongora, Ragi, Kuttu, Nutrition Board and all the autonomous bodies Bajra, Amaranth etc. which were earlier under Ministry of Women and Child Development

Other Programme and activities 72 are advised to fill up the vacancies reserved for Authorities (at level of Additional Secretaries, Schedule Castes/Scheduled Tribes and Other Joint Secretaries and equivalent Officers). Backward Classes by making special efforts. 6.20 Details of the Ministry's functions along Annual Statements showing the representation with its functionaries and the list of CPIOs and of SCs, STs and OBCs and Persons with Appellate Authorities are available on Ministry's Disabilities during the 2014-15 is at website i.e. www.wcd.nic.in. During the year Annexures-XXIV & XXV respectively. 2015-16 (upto 3.3.2016), 3163 number of Citizen's / Client's Charter applications were received online in the Ministry

and forwarded to the concerned CPIOs/Public 6.29 The Ministry has prepared a Citizen's / Authorities for providing information requested Client's Charter, which has been placed on the for. 221 Appeals received online against the website of the Ministry ([email protected]). decisions of the CPIOs. The Charter has been distributed among stake holders. It has also been circulated to all the 6.33 The Ministry has taken various steps in officers in the Ministry for compliance. pursuance of the commitment of disclosure under Section 4 of the RTI Act. The details about grants Information Facilitation Center (IFC) made to organisations/State Government have 6.30 Information and Facilitation Centre been uploaded on the website of the Ministry. A (IFC) WCD, has been functioning as a single Transparency Officer, JS (IFC/RTI) has been window of this Ministry for public relations. appointed to ensure commitments of transparency The Centre provides information on different and suo-moto disclosures in time bound manner. programs and schemes of the Ministry to the Parliamentary Committees visitors. It also functions as Right to Information (RTI) Cell i.e. nodal unit for 6.34 The Department related Parliamentary receiving RTI applications. Standing Committee of the Ministry on Human Resource Development has been constituted with Right to Information Act, 2005 Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya as the Chairman of the 6.31 Under the provisions of the Right to Committee Information Act 2005, the Information and Progressive Use of Hindi Facilitation Centre (IFC) acts as nodal agency for RTI matters. The IFC Section receives and 6.35 During the period under report, the Ministry thereafter forwards RTI applications to the continued its efforts towards the maximum use of Central Public Information Officers Hindi in official work. To ensure the effective (CPIOs)/Public Authorities concerned. It also implementation of the Official Language Act, 1963 coordinates follow up action on the and Official Language Rules 1976, official Appeals/Orders received from the Central language division of the ministry has been Information Commission (CIC) etc. The IFC strengthened. All the Computers (PCs) within the is also responsible for submission of quarterly Ministry are equipped with bilingual facility. returns on RTI applications/appeals to the Efforts are being made to promote the use of Hindi CIC. RTI Applications/Appeals received in the correspondence and notings. The quarterly online on RTI Web Portal are also being progress reports for the progressive use of Hindi forwarded online to the concerned CPIO- related to the Ministry of WCD and subordinate Public Authority and Appellate Authority. offices were reviewed and sent regularly to the Department of Official Language. All the officers 6.32 The Ministry has presently 13 CPIOs and the employees of the Ministry have working (at the level of Directors, Deputy Secretaries knowledge of Hindi. Various programmes have and equivalent Officers) and 11 Appellate been organised for the promotion of the

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progressive use of Hindi in the Ministry. Details D e p a r t m e n t a l O f f i c i a l L a n g u a g e are summarised below:- Implementation Committee (OLIC)

Compliance of Section 3(3) of the Official Act 6.38 The meetings of Departmental official 1963 and Rule 5 of the Official Language Rules language implementation Committee (OLIC) are 1976 being held regularly under the chairmanship of 6.36 In pursuance of the official language joint secretary, in-charge OL. It reviews the policy of the Government of India, all the progress made in connection with the use of documents covered under Sec 3 (3) of the Hindi and gives appropriate suggestions and Official Language Act 1963 viz. Cabinet takes decision. Apart from this, the directions are notes, Parliament Questions, material related being issued by Secretary for the increase of to Parliamentary Standing Committee, progressive use of Hindi in the official work in the weekly meetings. standing notes, advertisement, notifications, circulars, office memorandum, etc are being Hindi workshops & inspections issued both in English and Hindi. Other than 6.39 To encourage the officers and employees to this, books related to various schemes of the do their maximum official work in Hindi, Ministry were translated during this period. workshops were organised and participants were Rule 5 of official language rules 1976 is being apprised of official language policy and quarterly fully complied by the Ministry. progress report of Hindi. Accordingly, keeping in Hindi Salahkar Samiti view the inspection target of annual programme 2015-16, inspection of various divisions/sections 6.37 For effective implementation and of the Ministry and the subordinate offices of the monitoring of official language policy of the Ministry namely; NIPCCD, NCPCR and CSWB Government, Hindi Salahkar Samiti is was undertaken and feedback was taken from the constituted in the ministry under the officers to maximise the use of Hindi in the Chairpersonship of Hon'ble, Minister for official work. Women and Child Development. According To Organise Hindi Diwas / Pakhwada / Maah to the directions of the Department of Official Language, there must be two meetings in a 6.40 The Hindi month was celebrated in the th year. One meeting was held on June 29 June, Ministry from 1st to 30th September, 2015. During 2015 and other is to be proposed shortly. this period Hon'ble Minister, WCD and Secretary,

Meeting of the Hindi Salahkar Samiti being Chaired by Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Hon'ble, Minister for Women and Child Development on June 29th June, 2015.

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Shri V. Somasundaran, Secretary (WCD) with the awardees of certificates to the staff of Ministry for using Hindi in official work during 'Hindi month' celebration (1st - 30th September, 2015).

WCD encouraged to use Hindi in the official WCD. Officials participated in various seminars, work by issuing an appeal amongst employees. lectures on the development of Hindi across the During the month a noting -drafting competition world. Conference was very knowledgeable and was held to give practical knowledge of Hindi well appreciated by the officials. in official work. An independent committee was Status of ATNs on CAG Paras constituted to select the winners of this 6.43 The summary of important audit observations, competition. Certificates and cash prizes were appearing in the most recent audit reports of the given to the 7 winners by the Secretary, WCD. The committee suggested that such competition year ending March, 2015 and details of action taken should be held every year, so that officers and on audit observations received from Comptroller & employees are motivated and encouraged to Auditor General (CAG) are at work in Hindi. Annexure – XXVI. Annual Plan and Action Plan Hindi Work in E-office 6.44 The Plan outlay for the Ministry of Women 6.41 Hon'ble Minister inaugurated the e- offices on 28th December 2015. All work in e- and Child Development for the year 2015-16 was office is being done by Hindi section. All fixed at Rs.10,286.73 crores and has been revised circulars, files, letters are being issued at Rs17,257.00 crores at RE Stage. Scheme-wise through e-office only and being put up on the details are given at Annexure-XXVII. Plan for the North-East Region notice board. Hindi Unicode facility is available in all computers. 6.45 As per the guidelines of the Planning 10th World Hindi Conference Commission and the Ministry of Finance, the

th Ministry has allocated 10% of the Annual Plan 6.42 10 World Hindi Conference was outlay for the implementation of its programme organized by Ministry of External Affairs th th in the seven North-Eastern States of Arunachal from 10 -12 September, 2015 at Bhopal. It Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalya, Mizoram, was inaugurated by Hon'ble Prime Minister of Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim. During the year, India. In this conference, representatives of 39 efforts were made to involve social organizations countries participated. Conference was of North-Eastern Areas with the existing support attended by Hindi officials of Ministry of

75 Annual Report 2015-16 available under various Grant-in-aid Schemes ii) Institutions are normally given assistance of the Ministry of Women and Child under the grant-in-aid programme on an equal matching basis (50% grant from the Development. Scheduled Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) and Board and other 50% raised by the institutions). For institutions in tribal Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP) areas, the Board may contribute up to 6.46 The schemes and programmes of the 75% of the approved expenditure. Ministry are directly impacting the lives of iii) Under the scheme of Condensed Courses women and children belonging to the most of Education for Adult Women, the disadvantaged sections of the society. Most of institutions are required to make efforts to the programmes are located in the areas where enroll Scheduled Caste and Scheduled the women and children belonging to Tribe women for the course. In the case of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC SC and ST candidates, conditions & ST) have easy access. While selecting the regarding educational qualifications for location for the project, preference is given to admission to the courses are relaxed those areas which are predominately inhabited wherever necessary. by vulnerable and weaker sections of the society. The Ministry has been earmarking 6.48 The Scheme of Hostels for Working budget allocation separately for Scheduled Women implemented by the Ministry provides for Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan to the seats upto 15% and 7.5% for women belonging to tune of 20 % and 8.2 % respectively. SC and ST communities, respectively.

6.47 The Central Social Welfare Board 6.49 The schemes of Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) are aimed at improving nutritional status (CSWB) made the following stipulations of people in general and of the vulnerable under their grant-in-aid rules to encourage sections of the population including SCs and STs voluntary action in tribal areas: in particular. Community Food and Nutrition i) Normally, only institutions engaged in Extension Units (CFNEUs) of FNB are organize social welfare activities for a minimum training courses in the fields in fruit and period of three years are eligible for vegetable preservations only for SC/ST grant-in-aid from the Board. This adolescent girls and women under accelerated condition is relaxed in the case of programmes for the development of SC/ST institutions located in tribal areas. community. The major thrust of the programmes of the Board is on the rural and tribal areas.

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7

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 7

Food And Nutrition Board

7.1 The Food & Nutrition Board (FNB) set Training in Home Scale Preservation of up in 1964 under the Ministry of Food was Fruits and Vegetables and Nutrition, transferred to the Department of Women and Providing Fruits & Vegetable Processing Child Development in 1993 with all powers facilities at CFNEUs, of a Central Government Department. Food and Nutrition Board has a countrywide set up Development and Promotion of low comprising of a Technical Wing at the Centre, costnutritious recipes using locally available Foods, 4 Regional Offices, 4 Quality Control Laboratories at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Inter-Sectoral coordination and follow Chennai and 43 Community Food & Nutrition upaction on the National Nutrition Extension Units (CFNEUs) located in 30 Policy and National Plan of Action on States/ UTs (details are at Annexure- Nutrition, policy matters related to XXVIII). FNB provides a wide range of nutrition Nutrition Education & Extension services, with the stated objectives of building up a Development, production and systematic campaign to overcome the difficult distribution/dissemination of nutrition education/ training material. barrier of ignorance, prejudice and superstition in food and dietary habits. Test checking the quality of supplementarynutrition under ICDS. 7.2 The Food & Nutrition Board, which is a technical wing of Ministry of Women and Child Setting up and management of Development, have been recognized by the NutritionResource Platform and th Planning Commission in its 12 Five Year Plan Centres. document as one of the key players to reduce the malnutrition level in the country and FNB's Implementation of Infant Milk Substitutes major task is to address this major challenge. (Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods) Act

7.3 FNB is engaged in the following Technical support to Mid-Day Meal(MDM) activities: program, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for the Codex Nutrition Education and Training, bothfor Committee on Nutrition and Foods for the masses and for ICDS Special Dietary Uses and food functionaries, fortification.

Mass Nutrition Awareness Campaigns, Important functions of FNB

De v e l o p m e n t , p r o d u c t i o n a n 7.4 The important functions of FNB are as ddistribution of nutrition education / under:- training material, To oversee implementation of Food Analysis and Standardization, variousnutrition oriented sectoral interventions and issue policy guidelines on critical nutrition issues.

79 Annual Report 2015-16 To promote and coordinate activitieswith of State Ministers/ Principal Secretaries regard to bringing nutritional issues Conference held at New Delhi on 8th-9th October, centre stage through advocacy and 2015. The AVs are in process of being aired by sensitization of policy planners and Ministry's Media Division through Doordarshan, implementers All India Radio, private TV channels & Private

FM. To campaign on prevention and controlof malnutrition at all levels including Obesity and Junk Foods:

infant and young child nutrition issues. 7.7 Ministry has formulated a working group To focus on reduction in micro-nutrient under the chairmanship of Director, National malnutrition. Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad to examine the issue of obesity and matters related to Junk Food. To improve content and delivery The committee submitted its report to the Ministry ofexisting nutrition related entitled “Addressing Consumption of Foods High interventions enlisting cooperation of in Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) and Promotion of professional institutions and social Healthy Snacks in Schools in India”. organizations in the area of nutrition and health. 7.8 Recommendations of the Working Group have been shared with Ministry of Health & National Nutrition Mission Family Welfare, Ministry of Human Resource 7.5 As a follow up of the Finance Minister's Development and all the Chief Ministers of Budget Speech 2014-15 to tackle the States/UTs to issue an advisory in respect of sale deteriorating malnutrition situation in India in a of junk foods in school canteens. mission mode, the Ministry of Women and 7.9 As per the recommendations of the Child Development led an intensive process of Committee to address issues related to junk food consultation at the National level involving and obesity, modules for incorporating the aspect States, other sectors, ministries, experts, of nutrition focusing on the issue of 'Junk Food' institutions and voluntary agencies to formulate in the school curriculum for the standard V to IX the contours and contents of the new have been shared with the Ministry of Human invigorated National Nutrition Mission. The Resource Development. draft note on National Nutrition Mission for Cabinet Committee on Economic affairs has Micronutrient Fortification in Food been circulated and comments are awaited. 7.10 Ministry has constituted a committee to Development of Audio-Visuals on Nutrition formulate a comprehensive policy and draft legislation/ regulation on food fortification under 7.6 In pursuance to the direction of Hon'ble the chairmanship of Sh. T. Longvah, Director, Minister of Women and Child Development National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad. An and also action point mention in Record of Inter ministerial consultation was also held with Discussion of the presentation made by the stake holders to evolve a comprehensive policy Ministry to the Hon'ble Prime Minister on th and draft legislation/regulation on micronutrient 18 December, 2014, Audio-visuals on fortification under the Chairmanship of Secretary, “Antenatal Care & Child Nutrition” were Food & Public Distribution on 19th February, developed in Hindi and 17 other languages 2016. (Punjabi, Urdu, Malyalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, Telugu, Kannad, Convergence with line Ministries

Tamil, Asamese, Garo, Khasi, Mizo, 7.11 Dr. J.H. Panwal, Joint Technical Adviser, Konkani, Manipuri and English) which FNB, MWCD Chaired the session on 11th Aug, include 9 products i.e. 3 short films, 2 radio spots and 4 radio jingles. The Hindi Master of 8 2015 during National Consultation on Wheat of the AVs were shared with the participants

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Dr. J.H. Panwal, Joint Technical Adviser, FNB, MWCD Chaired the session during

National Consultation on Wheat Flour Fortification on 11th August 2015

Flour Fortification organized jointly by Development Project Officers (ACDPOs), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Medical Officers, Senior Supervisors of ICDS, WHO, UNICEF and World Food Teachers, reputed NGOs, VDO, Gram Sevak etc. Programme held on 11th -12th Aug, 2015 who, in turn, act as trainers for the grass-root level functionaries of ICDS, such as anganwadi at New Delhi. workers and the community at large. Nutrition Education and Training Orientation Training Courses (OTCs)

7.12 Advocacy and sensitization of policy 7.14 CFNEU organizes training for two days for makers, nutrition orientation training for 30 participants comprising of grassroot level programme managers and capacity building workers from ICDS and Health such as AWWs, of field functionaries are the important Helpers, and ASHAs, adolescent girls, pregnant, activities of the Food & Nutrition Board. newly married, communities and PRIs, etc. The Different activities are carried out for topics for OTC are (i) Infant and Young Child different target groups for disseminating Feeding (ii) Health and Nutrition and (iii) nutrition related information. Nutrition Management of Severe Malnutrition. Education of the community, one of the prime activities of the Food & Nutrition Board, is Training in Home Scale Preservation of Fruits & Vegetables and Nutrition Education undertaken through its 43 Community Food & Nutrition Extension Units (CFNEUs), by 7.15 CFNEU organizes 5 days training in Home organizing nutrition education and Scale Preservation of Fruits & Vegetables and demonstration programmes in rural, urban Nutrition Education for 30 participants including and tribal areas in different States/ UTs of the housewives, adolescent girls and unemployed Country. FNB Headquarters, through its four youths, to encourage them to preserve fruits and Regional Offices, provides the technical as vegetables at the household level. This increases well as logistic support for the functioning of the consumption of fruits & vegetables and also these units and conducts the following develops skills which could be useful for income training programmes in the field units. generation. A Ready Reckoner on fruits and vegetable preservation and nutrition is distributed Training of Trainers (TOT) Programme in to the trainees on completion of the training. Nutrition: 7.16 CFNEU also organizes special training in 7.13 CFNEU organizes five days “Training of Home Scale Preservation of Fruits & Vegetables Trainers” programme for 20 Master Trainers and Nutrition education exclusively for SC/ST comprising of Child Development Project including adolescent girls and women. A stipend O ff i c e r s ( C D P O s ) , A s s i s t a n t C h i l d of Rs. 200/- is given to each participant.

81 Annual Report 2015-16 7.17 Nutrition Education programmes are Training/ programmes conducted up to December, organized in rural, tribal areas and urban slums. 2015 during the year 2015-16 are as below:

Sl. Training/ Programme No. of Training No. of Beneficiaries No. 1 Training in Home Scale Preservation of 63 2135 Fruits and Ve getables and Nutrition

2 Nutrition Education programmes 3099 92904

Monitoring of the Anganwadi Centres after the strengthening and restructuring of ICDS, (AWCs) sample analysis has been outsourced on pilot basis to reputed NABL accredited not-for-profit food 7.18 Anganwadis under different ICDS testing laboratories as registered entities to check projects are being visited to monitor the supplementary nutrition and to facilitate the food quality and generate additional data on physiochemical and microbial analysis of SNP. nutrition and health components of the ICDS. During the visit, the FNB staff provides 7.21 During the year 2015-16, up to the month of technical support on nutrition and health December, 2015, a total of 3556 numbers of education at the AWC by organizing various samples have been analyzed through the nutrition extension activities. During the year outsourced laboratory.

2015-16, up to the month of December 2015, Setting-up of 4 new Quality Control a total no. of 1675 Anganwadi Centres have Laboratories of FNB: been monitered. 7.22 Ministry is in the process of setting up of Food Analysis four new state-of-art laboratories at Faridabad, 7.19 Food & Nutrition Board has four Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Also, NBCC has Regional Quality Control Laboratories at been requested to start preparatory work and Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, which initiate process of soil testing, finalizing layout analyses samples of various supplementary plans and structural design etc. for construction foods provided under the ICDS scheme. The of building. samples are received from the State Mass Nutrition Awareness Campaigns Governments as well as drawn by field units of FNB during the visit to AWCs. The region- 7.23 Various events on specific themes were wise number of samples analysed during organized with the active cooperation of 2015-16 up to December, 2015 are as under: respective State Governments, Educational Institutions, NGOs and media. Some of the

programmes conducted are Workshops/Symposia and special programmes on nutrition.

7.24 The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) st th was observed from 1 – 7 August, 2015 on the theme of “Breastfeeding: Let's Make It Work!”. In this regard, the letters to Chief Secretaries in

7.20 Keeping in view the requirement and need the States/ UTs have been issued to mobilize the for strict watch on quality and anticipated concerned Departments on the WBW theme during celebrations. increase in the volume of samples for analysis

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7.25 National Nutrition Week (NNW) is country. This year, the theme for the National celebrated from 1st – 7th September every year Nutrition Week was “Better Nutrition: Key to since 1982 to intensify nutrition awareness Development”. Field units of Food and Nutrition through various modes and interventions to Board celebrated the week in collaboration with reach the masses in the far flung areas of the the State Governments/UTs.

Smt. Anuradha Thakur, IAS, Secretary Dept. of WCD, Himachal Pradesh at “National Nutrition Week-2015”, organized by CFNEU, Shimla

Nutrition rally during NNW-2015 organised by CFNEU, Ludhiana

The Ministry has also addressed to the Chief 7.26 The Community Food and Nutrition Extension Secretaries / Secretaries of the WCD in the Units (CFNEUs) of Food and Nutrition Board also th State Governments/UT Administration to celebrated World Food Day on 16 mobilize the concerned Departments on the October, 2015 with various activities related to NNW 2015 theme during celebrations. nutrition.

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World Food Day celebrated by CFNEU Trivandrum

7.27 The Community Food and Nutrition Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day (GIDDPD) on Extension Units (CFNEUs) of Food and 21st October, 2015 with various activities related to Nutrition Board also celebrated Global Iodine nutrition.

Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day celebrations by CFNEU, Raipur & CFNEU, Kolkata.

Nutrition Resource Platform (NRP) at National Institute of Public Cooperation and

Child Development (NIPCCD), New Delhi, with 7.28 Nutrition Resource Platform (NRP), National Informatics Centre (NIC) providing which is an initiative of the Ministry, functions technical and logistic support. The NRP has three as part of Food and Nutrition Board and set up

domains:

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Domain I: Anelectronic library& the possibility of services like Interactive document management system which Voice Response System (IVRS) to collect provides an online database of child & real time monthly data from Anganwadi nutrition related resource & reference Workers, voice blast, SMS blast including material accessible to all. At present, the potential for using it as a virtual portal contains more than 6000 classroom, information dissemination documents in the form of print, audio center and nutrition surveillance to connect with the grassroots level workers. visuals, and IEC material which can be accessed by various policy makers, 7.29 NRP has its Facebook page created to students, ICDS functionaries, etc. help popularize the website. IEC tab has been created on NRP website to help make the campaign Domain II: Aweb-based knowledge accessible to everyone. The Web address is management e-forum for discussion www.poshan.nic.in / www.akshayaposhan.gov.in and exchange of ideas.

Domain III: End user Mobile telephony based services which offers

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8

National Institute of Public

Cooperation and

Child Development

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 8

National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development

8.1 N a t i o n a l I n s t i t u t e o f P u b l i c empowerment of women, prevention of sexual Cooperation and Child Development popularly harassment at work place, prevention of gender known as NIPCCD is a premier organization related violence such as female foeticide, female devoted to promotion of voluntary action, infanticide, trafficking of women and children, child marriage, etc. research, training and documentation in the overall domain of women and child 8.3 The objectives of the Institute are to: development. It was established in New Delhi in the year 1966, as an autonomous institution develop and promote voluntary action under the Societies Registration Act of 1860, insocial development; and functions under the aegis of Ministry of take a comprehensive view of Women and Child Development, Government childdevelopment and to promote and of India with its Headquarters in New Delhi and develop relevant need-based programmes four Regional Centres at Guwahati (1978), in pursuance of the National Policy for Bengaluru (1980), Lucknow (1982) and Indore Children; (2001) to cater to region–specific requirements. develop measures for coordinationbetween 8.2 The Institute focuses on essential and government and voluntary action in social need-based programmes for the holistic development; development of the child & child protection and for creating awareness regarding women's evolve framework and perspective empowerment and gender issues, especially fororganising children's programmes women's rights – political, social and economic. through government and voluntary The current thrust areas of the Institute relating efforts; and to child development are maternal and child establish liaison with international andregional health and nutrition, early childhood care and agencies, research institutions, universities education, childhood disabilities, positive and technical bodies engaged in activities mental health in children and child care support similar to those of the Institute. services. The activities of the Institute in the area of women development are geared to Vision support national policies and programmes for 8.4 The vision of the NIPCCD is to be seen as an women's empowerment through training, Institute of global repute in child rights, child research and documentation. The Institute is protection and child development by developing also focusing on gender planning and partnerships and linkages with National and mainstreaming, gender b u d g e t i n g , e c o n International agencies and making its training and o m i c a n d p o l i t i c a l research activities relevant to the needs of its

89 Annual Report 2015-16 varying client groups. The Institute has been imparting training programmes for Master consistently invigorating its efforts towards Trainers implementing BBBP Scheme. accomplishment of its vision, which is evident The training programmes for Master in numerous programmes and activities Trainers on BBBP for all States were conducted by the Institute. scheduled from April-August, 2015. In

8.5 The Institute has a General Body and an all, 9 training programmes were organised Executive Council. While the General Body on the theme till now and 754 participants attended these training programmes. is responsible for formulating overall policies of the Institute, the Executive Council is To participate in Swachh Bharat or responsible for management and Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India administration of the Institute. Both these Campaign), the Institute with technical bodies have representation of government and support of MWCD brought out a booklet voluntary organisations. The Minister of State on "Bal Swachhata Mission" in order to for Women and Child Development is the provide a healthy anganwadi environment President of the General Body and and to develop and support appropriate Chairperson of the Executive Council. health and hygiene behaviour. The

8.6 There are two Departments, each being booklet contains information on the headed by an Additional Director, under following themes: Clean Anganwadi; Clean Surroundings; Clean Self (Personal which six divisions are functioning: Hygiene/ Child Health); Clean Drinking Department of Mother Care and Child Water; Clean Toilets; and Clean Food. Development The Booklet on Bal Swachhta Mission

Child Development was d i s t r i b u t e d t o a l l 3 6 P r i n c i p a l Secretaries/Commissioners dealing Public Cooperation & Child Protection with ICDS in all States/ UTs who in turn Women's Development disseminate it to CDPOs in all the ICDS projects and Middle Level Training Department of Training and Common Centres. In all, 11 training programmes on Services “Swachh Evam Swasth Bachpan

Training (Cleanliness & Healthy Childhood)” for District Level Officials were organised till Monitoring and Evaluation now, which were attended by 282 participants. Common ServicesHighlights of the Activities Since 2005-06, Institute runsAdvanced

The Institute is contributing to Diploma in Child Guidance and Counselling. During the year under capacitybuilding of stakeholders reference, the Institute completed 10th under the Beti Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance and Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme (BBBP) Counselling from August, 2014 - July, The Institute has also developed a 2015. The main objectives were to: explore training module and compendium to and evolve attitudes, values and beliefs that strengthen the capacity of ICDS facilitates work with children as mental functionaries and other related health professionals; acquire knowledge stakeholders in implementing the and understanding of theoretical constructs scheme. Module has been sent to all and socio-cultural perspectives in the States/UTs. A session focusing Beti context of counselling; develop skills to Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme has also plan, provide and monitor-counselling been incorporated in programme interventions for children and child- related schedules of all training programmes of systems; and develop skills of mobilizing the Institute. The Institute has also been

National Inst. of Public Coop. and Child Dev. 90 resources and networking and In addition to this, a Consultation Meet collaborating with stakeholders. A onSafety and Security of Girls in total number of 20 students attended Schools was organised by Headquarters at the course during the current year. Regional Centre, Indore with the main objectives to: sensitize the participants on The Central and State Governments safety and security of school going girls; arecharged with the responsibility to share g o v e r n m e n t a n d n o n - g o v create awareness about Protection of e r n m e n t initiatives for safety of school Children against Sexual Offences girls; discuss the role of stakeholders in (POCSO) Act 2012. Keeping this in prevention of violence and protection of view, the school going girls; and evolve strategies Headquarters and Regional Centres, and interventions for ensuring safety of Bengaluru, Guwahati, Lucknow and school girls. I n d o r e o r g a n i s e d t h i r t y s i x Sensitisation Programme/Orientation Re g i o n a l C o n s u l t a t i o n M e e t o Workshop/Awareness Generation nStrengthening Non Institutional Camp on POCSO Act, 2012 and its R Services for Child Protection and u l e s f o r L a w E n f o r c e m e n t Institutional Mechanism for Child Agencies/ICPS Personnel/Police Protection was organised by Regional Personnel/Medical Officer/School Centre, Bengaluru with the main objective Principals & Teachers/NGOs. to: provide forum for presenting the existing best practices in institutional and Besides this, Institute's Headquartersand non - institutional mechanism for child Regional Centres, Bengaluru, protection in southern states; discuss Guwahati, Lucknow and Indore strategies for linking non-institutional o rg a n i s e d s e v e r a l O r i e n t a t i o services to child protection service under n Workshops on Child Rights and Child ICPS; and discuss and suggest the Protection for Magistrates/Chairperson modalities for strengthening non- and Members of CWCs/JJBs with the institutional and institutional services objectives to: develop understanding under ICPS. among the participants on the situation of children in India and challenges Besides, three Refresher TrainingProgrammes faced by children for their holistic on Women and Child Development were development; sensitise and orient also organised by Headquarters at them to the Juvenile Justice (Care and Haryana with the main objectives to: Protection of Children) Act 2000 and orient the participants regarding BBBP its Amendment Act 2006; orient them Programme, POCSO Act,2012 and other about the functioning of CWCs and Acts pertaining to women and girl child; the role and responsibilities of enhance revision of participants regarding Chairperson and Members of CWCs; food safety measures in ICDS; give an create an understanding of the concept insight about Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and of rehabilitation and social Bal Swachta Mission; and refresh IYCF reintegration and to enable effective Practices among the participants. assessment of options; discuss relevance of non-institutional services Orientation Programme for Mother NGOsof under the Act to facilitate effective Health Ministry on Growth Monitoring rehabilitation and social reintegration and Usage of Mother & Child Protection of children including difficulties faced Card was organised by Headquarters with by them; and learn the role of different the main objectives to: orient the stakeholders as provided in the Act functionaries of MNGOs/FNGOs to the and to understand the mechanisms for New WHO Child Growth Standards and speedy disposal of cases. the joint MCP Card; and equip them with

91 Annual Report 2015-16 necessary skills to use new WHO childhood care and development growth chart and joint MCP Card in including nutrition and health care; and ICDS. sharpen their c o m m u n i c a t i o n , c o

u n s e l i n g a n d managerial skills. During the period under report, theInstitute's Headquarters and Regional Centres The Regional Centre, Guwahati organised organised several Training Programmes a Skill Training on Community on Gender Issues & Mainstreaming Mobilization, Advocacy, Awareness and Gender in Development Programmes as IEC Campaign on the issues relating to well, with the main objectives to: Child Development with the main enhance understanding of participants objectives to: orient the officials of ICDS about basic gender concepts and gender to the concept and importance of differentiation; develop clear c o m m u n i t y m o b i l i z a t i o n a n d perspective about gender participation, advocacy awareness and mainstreaming, gender analysis and its i IEC campaign; and improve their skills m p o r t a n c e i n d e v e l o p m e n t in adopting appropriate methods and programmes; develop skills in planning techniques of motivating and mobilizing and management of development community for eliciting community programmes with gendered approach participation for implementing ICDS and undertake gender diagnosis of programme effectively.

existing programmes; and evolve an The Institute also organised three action plan to mainstream gender in trainingprogrammes for Master Trainers development programmes. of One Stop Centre Scheme for Southern, The institute organised two Northern and Western regions of the TrainingProgrammes on Issues country during the months of October to Affecting Women for NCW- November 2015 with the objectives to: functionaries/staff on the request of orient Master Trainers on issues related to NCW with the main objective to: Violence Against Women (VAW) and develop clear perspective among Constitutional and legal provisions thereof; participants about construction of enhance their knowledge and skills in gender with reference to violence providing medico-legal and psychological against women; enhance the skills of support to aggrieved women; help them to participants in dealing with survivors of develop skills in imparting training to violence; and orient them on functionaries/ stakeholders so that the administrative procedures including aggrieved women get support and redressal noting, drafting and record keeping, etc. of their problems under one roof; and

provide a tool for capacity building of all Apart from this, several Refresher Courses for CDPOs/ACDPOs were stakeholders to p e r f o r m t a s k s t o g e t organised by Headquarters and h e r t h r o u g h convergence at various levels. Regional Centres with the main o b j e c t i v e s t o : r e v i e w t h e Programmes and Activities implementation of restructured and strengthened ICDS programme in the 8.7 Training and research are the core activities States with regard to various aspects; of the Institute. Besides these, the Institute provide a forum for sharing of also runs Field Demonstration Services at experiences in implementing ICDS its Headquarters and Regional Centres and programme; apprise CDPOs/ACDPOs also brings out various publications in the about the recent developments and areas of its interest. trends in ICDS programme; update their knowledge in the areas of early A. Training Programmes

National Inst. of Public Coop. and Child Dev. 92 8.8 Broad categories of training programmes of the Institute are:

S.No. Training Programmes I Regular Training Programmes a. Training Programmes on Issues relating to Women and Child Development b. Training on Child Protection, Juvenile Justice Act and POCSO Act, 2012 II. Training Programmes under ICDS

8.9 During the year 2015-16 (upto December, Programmes organised by NIPCCD during 2015), NIPCCD organised a total of 268 April – December, 2015 is as under: training programmes. The Summary of

Category of 2014-15 2015-16

th (Upto 15 December, 2015) Programmes

Regular ICDS ICPS Regular ICDS ICPS

No. ofParticipants

No . ofParticipants

No . ofParticipants

ofParticipants

No. ofParticipants

No. of No.

Programmes

No. of No. of No. of No.

Programmes

Programmes

No. of No. No. of Programmes

organised organised No. ofParticipants organised organised Programmes organised No . Programmes organised

Headquarters 63 1712 48 1252 27 770 51 2004 23 555 18 574

Regional 18 593 32 572 11 365 11 365 13 372 22 737 Centre

(Bengaluru)

Regional 18 1023 22 571 8 354 13 804 18 538 5 152 Centre

(Guwahati)

Regional 11 364 24 616 19 642 6 173 27 643 13 315 Centre

(Lucknow)

Regional 15 480 25 716 13 514 22 1078 15 302 11 465 Centre

(Indore)

Total 125 4172 151 4027 78 2645 103 4424 96 2410 69 2243 Research/

th Documentation 20 (upto 15 December, 2015)

Completed

I. Regular Training Programmes role of voluntary organisations and government

8.10 Under regular training programmes, departments in tackling emerging social problems NIPCCD organizes orientation / training including those having a bearing on welfare and courses and workshops/seminars for development of children and women and strengthening the service delivery system. representatives of voluntary organisations and officials of government departments engaged in II. Training under ICDS Programme

implementation of programmes of mother care, 8.11 As an apex Institution for training of child development, child rights and protection functionaries of Integrated Child Development and women's empowerment. The Institute also Services (ICDS) programme, NIPCCD organized conducts programmes on subjects of topical job training courses and refresher courses for interest in these fields to highlight the

93 Annual Report 2015-16 CDPOs/ACDPOs and trainers, Vertical several Workshops/ Consultation Meets during Training Programme for ICDS functionaries at the year. For building up the capabilities of ICDS block level, Sensitization Programmes on functionaries, it organized several orientation, Strengthening and Restructuring of ICDS refresher and skill training of trainers. Programme, training on SABLA & IGMSY and

A view of Inaugural Session of Orientation Programme on Empowerment of Adolescent Girls

S t re n g t h e n i n g o f M o n i t o r i n g a outcomes of the scheme on pre-determined set of n d Supervision System in ICDS Scheme – indicators and for taking corrective steps. At the Through Central Monitoring Unit of State level, various tasks relating to supervision and monitoring of the scheme were undertaken NIPCCD 8.12 Ministry of Women and Child with the help of selected academic institutions Development has set up a monitoring and viz. Medical Colleges, Home Science Colleges supervision mechanism for the ICDS scheme and Schools of Social Work. through NIPCCD in addition to the existing 8.13 The project was operationalised in the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit in the Ministry project mode from February, 2008 after signing of Women and Child Development. The new of MOUs between NIPCCD and 42 selected monitoring set up has a three tier system – institutions. As per audit recommendations, the monitoring at Community, State and National Ministry of Women and Child Development had level. At the National level, a Central reviewed the functioning of CMU in 2012 and Monitoring Unit (CMU) has been set up at after review it was decided that CMU activities NIPCCD HQs. New Delhi, wherein data will continue as ICDS plan activity of NIPCCD. received from selected Institutions from States The same was also approved by the Executive is analyzed, interpreted and reports are Council of the Institute in its meeting held on 12th generated. The performance of the scheme has March, 2013. been evaluated for quantitative and qualitative

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Dr. Dinesh Paul, Director, NIPCCD interacting with participants of Orientation Course for Statistical Assistants on Management Information System in ICDS

th 8.14 During the year 2015-16 (upto 10 within its mandate. Evaluation studies are also December, 2015), 186 Consultants/Faculty conducted to assess the impact of ongoing Members/Project Staff from 52 Institutions schemes or projects on Women and Child (including NIPCCD Hqrs. and RCs) have Development, as an independent initiative, or at furnished data of 1565 ICDS Projects, 8688 the request of sponsoring Department/ agency. In AWCs, 452 AWTCs and 28 MLTCS. addition, documentation of the research work in

R e s e a r c h / E v a l u a t i o n S t u d i e s , the form of reports, compilations and manuals is done for wider dissemination. During the year Documentation / Compilations (upto December, 2015), twenty research studies 8.15 The Headquarters and its Regional were completed. Besides, seven research studies Centre undertake research on areas falling are near to completion.

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9

Central Social Welfare Board

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 9

Central Social Welfare Board

9.1 The Central Social Welfare Board empowerment of women and nurture of children; (CSWB) was set up by a Resolution of to create enabling environment of empowered Government of India on 12th August, 1953 women to live with dignity and participate as with the objective of promoting social welfare equal partners in development. activities and implementing welfare 9.4 Major Initiatives During 2015-16 programmes for women & children through voluntary organizations. In order to give it a Orientation Training Programme for legal status, the Board was registered as a FieldOfficers charitable company in 1969. The State Social An Orientation Training Programme for the newly Welfare Boards were set up in 1954 in all 33 recruited Field Officers was conducted in the office States and Union Territories to work together of the Central Social Welfare Board on 20th July, with Central Social Welfare Board in 2015. The field officers were guided for maximum implementing programmes of the Board use of technology for quick and prompt response. It across the country. The Board is functioning is also emphazised that the inspection reports and as an interface between government and the voluntary sector. The Board has been making pre-funding appraisal reports which give complete concerted efforts for empowerment of women picture of the activities being undertaken by the through Family Counselling Programme, voluntary organizations, must be accurate and Short Stay Homes, Rajiv Gandhi National precise. The house was also appraised about e- Office and its importance. Creche Scheme and other support services. The Board has a long experience of almost six Interactive meet with NGOs decades, a country-wide infrastructure to An interactive meeting under the Chairpersonship monitor implementation of programmes and a of Economic Adviser, MWCD with 24 NGOs network o f a p p r o x i m a t e l y 6 0 0 0 v o representing seven States i.e. Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, l u n t a r y organizations. The outreach of the Uttrakhand, Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana and programmes of the Board ranges from remote Rajasthan was held on 29th July, 2015 to review areas of the country from Leh to Andaman & the status of programmes i.e. Family Counselling Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep as well as Centre, Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme and North-Eastern States. Short Stay Home being implemented through Vision Central Social Welfare Board. The meeting was

9.2 To be the leading organization for focussed on the component of the schemes and the promotion of dedicated voluntary action for problems and challenges being faced by the NGOs in implementing the various programmes. social and economic empowerment of women and care and support of children. Training Programme on e-Office

Mission A training programme on e-office was organised in nd 9.3 To support voluntary organizations the office of Central Social Welfare Board on 22 financially and technically for socio economic July, 2015 for the offices working under the Ministry of Women & Child Development. The

99 Annual Report 2015-16 participatory offices were Central Social Puducherry State Social Welfare Board organized a Welfare Board, Rashtriya Mahila Kosh and sensitization programme on 'Prevention of Children National Mission for Empowerment of from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012” on 28th Women. The training was conducted by October 2015 at the community hall located in the National Informatics Centre (NIC.) campus of community seva centre. The main objective of organizing such campaign was to National Level Interactive meet consider such issues and to acknowledge women withSecretaries & field officers of and society at large about the POCSO Act 2012 and State Boards understand the behavioral pattern of child victims The National Level Interactive Meet with and also make necessary interventions. Sixty Secretaries and Field officers of the State women from SHGs and mothers of children from Boards was organised on 12th-13th August, 2015 creche centers participated in the programme. The to review the role, duties and responsibilities of programme was also attended by the counselors of Secretaries as well as Field Officers and to FCCs and several chief functionaries of NGOs. ensure effective implementation of the schemes Volunteers from foreign university i.e. Italy and and better functioning of the Board. All Germany participated in the meeting.

Secretaries and field officers of the State Social Celebration of Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh's Welfare Boards participated in the meet. Birth Anniversary Poster competition on Beti Bachao On the birth anniversary of Dr. Durgabai BetiPadhao Deshmukh, the founder Chairperson of the Central A poster competition on the topic Beti Bachao Social Welfare Board i.e. on 15th July, 2015, an Beti Padhao was organised in the office of event was organised in Central Board's office to Central Social Welfare Board with the motive pay floral tributes to Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh. to make people aware about the Prevention of PROGRAMMES OF THE BOARD gender biased sex selective elimination and other related aspects. The Central Board's Family Counselling Centers (FCCs) staff members participated in the competition 9.5 T h e F a m i l y C o u n s e l l i n g C e n t r e with great interest. programme provides counselling, referral and Campaign Against Female Foeticide in rehabilitative services to women and girls who Odisha are victims of atrocities, family maladjustments

A campaign was organized by Subarna Nari and social ostracism. Through the centers, crisis Jagarana Kendra in collaboration with State intervention and trauma counselling is also Social Welfare Board on 26-9-2015 at DRDA provided in case of natural or manmade disasters. C o n f e r e n c e H a l l , D i s t - S u b a r n a Public opinion on social issues affecting status of p u r, Bhubaneswar on female foeticide. women is mobilized through this programme and Drawing, debate and several competitions awareness is created on welfare and development were conducted among the girl students in the schemes being implemented by the Government. local Government and private high schools, The Counselling Centres work in close Junior college and ANM training center at collaboration with the local administration, police, courts, free legal aids cells, medical and Sonepur on female foeticide. A rally was psychiatric institutions, vocational training organised with a gathering of 150 girl students centers, short stay homes etc. including the members of the organization and social activists. The rally moved with slogans, 9.6 The FCCs have a three dimensional approach placards and banners against female foeticide. aimed at strengthening family life and to safeguard the interests of women i.e. preventive, curative and Campaign on 'Protection of Childrenfrom rehabilitative. The Budget of Family Counselling Sexual Offences (POCSO), 2012' at Centre scheme has been revised by the Govt. of Puducherry India w.e.f. 01.10.2015. As per the revised

Central Social Welfare Board 100 schematic norms a budget provision of Rs. 90% of the revised cost and the organizations 3,20,000/- per FCC per year would be available running the centres would contribute 10% of the w.e.f. 01.10.2015. CSWB would bear revised cost.

Achievements

Year Physical Financial (Rs. in lakhs)

No. of Centres Beneficiaries Allocation Expenditure

2014-15 793 264409 1658.00 1645.22

2015-16 (as on 767 288659 1934.00 1342.48 31.12.2015)

Physical and Financial Achievements during forced into prostitution. Under Short Stay Home the year 2014-15 are enclosed at Annexure- (SSH) programme temporary shelter to women XXIX. Physical and Financial Achievements and girls, medical care, counselling, occupational during the year 2015-16 (as on 31.12.2015) therapy, education and vocational training is are enclosed at Annexure-XXX. provided according to requirements of the

Short Stay Home Programme inmates. The period of stay normally extends from 6 months to 3 years. Under the scheme, 9.7 The objective of the scheme of Short Stay meetings have been held all over India with the Homes programme is to rehabilitate women functionaries of the voluntary organizations and and girls who are facing social, economic and rehabilitation officers for capacity building and emotional setback due to family problem, improved networking so that the inmates are exploitations, violence or being made self-reliant and can join the main stream.

Achievements

Year Physical Financial (Rs. in lakhs)

No. of Homes Beneficiaries Allocation Expenditure

2014-15 283 27168 1563.34 1563.34

2015-16 (as on 81 - 2521.26 1253.24 31.12.2015)

Physical and Financial Achievements during Creche and Day Care Services are not only the year 2014-15 and 2015-16 (as on required by working mothers but also women 31.12.2015) are at Annexures-XXXI and belonging to poor families, who require support XXXII respectively. and relief for childcare as they struggle to cope with burden of activities, within and outside the Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme home. Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme 9.8 With the increased phenomenon of nuclear provides assistance to NGOs for running crèches families and increased opportunities for for infants (0-6 years) and assistance is provided employment for women, working women need for sleeping facilities, health-care, supplementary support in terms of quality substitute care for nutrition, immunization etc. for running a creche their young children while they are at work. for 25 infants for eight hours.

101 Annual Report 2015-16 9.9 The scheme is being implemented by programme component making the services more the Central Social Welfare Board on behalf of effective in achieving the envisaged objectives. As Ministry of Women & Child Development, per revised scheme, a creche is designed to provide Govt. of India. Following the decision of the stimulating environment for the holistic Ministry, CSWB has taken over the control of development of children from 6 months to 6 years crèches run by Bharatiya Adim Jati Sevak of age, who are away from their home during the Sangh (BAJSS) temporarily. day while their mothers are away at work. The

9.10 The scheme of Rajiv Gandhi National schematic budget norms have been revised from Creche Scheme (RGNCS) has been revised Rs. 42,384/- per centre per year to Rs. 1, 37, 440/- per centre per year w.e.f.01.01.2016. w.e.f.01.01.2016 for strengthening the existing

Achievements

Year Physical Financial (Rs. in lakhs)

No. of Centres Beneficiaries Allocation Expenditure

2014-15 RGNCS - (CSWB) 14678 353200 5985.67 6342.77 RGNCS - (BAJSS) 3749 93725 1570.83 1342.30

2015-16 (as on 31.12.2015) RGNCS - (CSWB) 13507 337275 5715.79 4314.59 RGNCS - (BAJSS) 3243 81075 1374.51 1077.95

Physical and Financial Achievements during organizations working for the welfare of women, the year 2014-15 and 2015-16 (as on children and other disadvantaged groups.

31.12.2015) are at Annexures-XXXIII & 9.12 Both magazines have the most XXXIV and XXXV & XXXVI respectively. extensively documented material on all the social Journals of the Board: Social Welfare & problems in Indian society which are used as Samaj Kalyan resource material by students of social work.

9.11 In order to sensitize the public about the Both magazines have subscribers in almost all parts of the country and abroad also. social issues, problems and concerns, the Central Board publishes two magazines, 9.13 During the year 2015-16 'Social Welfare' Social Welfare in English and Samaj Kalyan and 'Samaj Kalyan' came out with issues related to in Hindi. The inaugural issue of 'Social women's concern like Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao , Welfare' was released in April 1954. This was Health of women, Working women and their followed by the first issue of 'Samaj Kalyan' challenges, Women and the Environment, in Hindi in August 1955. The magazines are Population and Family Planning, Social evils, planned and edited independently to cater to Independent women of India, freedom fighters, the needs of their individual readership. These Empowerment of women, Girl's education, Old magazines are also envisioned as a platform Age, Child abuse and Protection of Human Rights. for highlighting the activities of voluntary

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10

National Commission

for Women

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 10

National Commission

for Women (NCW)

10.1 In pursuance of the National Commission awareness programmes etc. organized by the for Women Act, 1990, National Commission Commission and in collaboration with State for Women (NCW) was constituted on 31st Women Commissions, NGOs and other January, 1992 as a statutory body at the organizations. These visits have been made to National level, to safeguard and promote the gain firsthand knowledge about the problems rights and interests of women. It has a wide faced by women in various parts of the country mandate covering almost all aspects of in order to suggest remedial measures and to women's development. The Commission take up the issues with the concerned authorities. investigates and examines the legal safeguards Steps have also been taken to investigate various provided for women under the Constitution cases of atrocities committed against women. and other laws and recommends to the 10.4 The Commission received a large number of Government, measures for their effective complaints and also took suo-moto cognizance of implementation. The Commission also reviews several cases to provides peedy justice to the the existing provisions of the Constitution and victims. Publicity was also made through print other laws affecting women and recommends advertisements, audio / video spots etc. to amendments to meet any lacunae, in disseminate messages so as to create awareness on adequacies or shortcomings in such laws; looks women empowerment and other women related – into complaints and takes suo moto laws and issues. As per NCW Act, the cognizance on matters relating to deprivation Commission consists of a Chairperson, five of women's rights, etc. Members and a Member Secretary. The present 10.2 The Commission takes up studies / composition of the Commission is headed by research on issues of relevance to women, Smt. Lalitha Kumaramangalam as Chairperson participates and advises in the planning w.e.f. 29.09.2014. process for socio-economic development of Focus (Thrust) on Public Awareness women, evaluates the progress made thereof; inspects jails, remand / shelter homes etc. 10.5 To increase Public Awareness regarding where women are kept under custody and laws and schemes relating to women, following seeks remedial action wherever necessary. activities were undertaken by the Commission:-

10.3 In keeping with its mandate, the Publicity through Electronic Media

Commission initiated various steps to improve To increase Public Awareness regarding the status of women and worked for their laws and schemes relating to women, The empowerment during the year under report. National Commission for Women telecasted Representatives of the Commission have Audio /Video spots on Domestic Violence visited various parts of the country to attend and Empowerment of Women in meetings / seminars / workshops / legal

105 Annual Report 2015-16 collaboration with Doordarshan. The N Officers, issues and challenges faced by a t i o n a l F i l m D e v e l o p m e n t Women with Disabilities etc. Corporation (NFDC) was hired for 10.6 Apart from the above, the National preparing fresh A/V spots on Dowry Commission for Women has frequently issued and D o m e s t i c V i o l e n c e , Wo press releases / notes to update the media on its m e n Trafficking, NRI Marriages, Eve role and point of views on different cases / issues Teasing in rural areas and Youth Anti- Sexual Harassment. Video spots on dealt with by the Commission. Individual Domestic Violence, Dowry, NRI meetings and interviews by the media with the Marriages, PNDT Act and Women Chairperson and members of the Commission were also organized during this period. Empowerment were telecasted on different Doordarshan Kendras of Commission's News Letter: Rashtra Mahila North East Region through Prasar 10.7 Rashtra Mahila, a monthly bilingual Bharati, Guwahati during special newsletter published by the Commission free of programmes on Christmas and New cost, disseminate information about the Year including Magh Bihu in Assam Commission's programmes to women activists, Print Advertisement members of legal fraternity, administrators,

The National Commission for Women members of the judiciary, representatives of released advertisements in the News NGOs, scholars and students all over the country. The newsletter highlights the activities of the papers of state capitals through DAVP Commission as well as success stories with regard on the services provided by the to complaints lodged before the Commission and Commission to protect and promote the also important court and Government decisions rights and safeguards of women on 23rd affecting women. The monthly newsletter is also August, 2015, 19th September, 2015 th available on the website of the Commission i.e. and 16 December, 2015 respectively. www.ncw.nic.in.

Outdoor Publicity Campaign Delegation visit

An outdoor publicity campaign was 10.8 A delegation comprising twenty-one social conducted by NCW in all the State activists from Nyay Darshan, Vadodara, Gujarat, capitals of the Country during April, th visited NCW on 9 October, 2015 to have a 2015 through DAVP. Under this meeting with the officials of NCW about the role campaign, posters and hoardings on and functions of the Commission. the subjects “Women Safety at Workplace” and “Domestic Violence” Functioning of the Commission

were displayed at bus queue shelters, 10.9 The functioning of the Commission is mainly inside the metro rail, railway stations, divided into following six Cells: (i) Complaints and bus stands and other public places in Investigation Cell; (ii) Policy, P r o g r a m m e , M the major cities. o n i t o r i n g , R e s e a r c h a n d Coordination Press Conference and other publicity Cell (PPMRCC); (iii) Legal Cell; (iv) Non-Resident Indian (NRI) Cell; (v) North East Cell and (vi) NCW holds Press conferences on Public Relation (PR) Cell. Activities undertaken by various occasions to inform and update each of these cells during the period under report, the Media on women related laws and are presented as under: issues. During the period under report the Commission organized press Complaints and Investigation Cell

conferences on the issues of surrogacy, 10.10 The Complaints and Investigation Cell (C capacity building of Women Police

National Commission for Women 106 & I Cell) deals with the complaints regarding 5. Indecent representation of women deprivation of women's rights / non implementation of laws, received from all over 6. Dowry harassment / dowry death the country. These complaints are received 7. Trafficking / Prostitution of women orally, in writing or online through its website i.e., www.ncw.nic.in. Online Complaint 8. Outraging modesty of women Registration System of the Commission has resulted in quicker registration and 9. Stalking / voyeurism acknowledgment of the complaints. In addition, 10. Cyber crimes against women Commission also takes suo-moto cognizance of incidents related to heinous crimes committed 11. Bigamy / Polygamy against women. 12. Right to exercise choice in marriage 10.11 The Complaints & Investigation Cell processes complaints to facilitate in providing 13. Right to live with dignity adequate and expeditious relief to women ensuring suitable redressal of grievances. (i) Domestic violence Wherever and whenever found necessary, (ii) Cruelty complaints are forwarded to the various State Commissions for Women, National Human (iii) Harassment Rights Commission, National Commission for SC / ST and their State counterparts for 14. Women's right of custody of children in initiating appropriate action at their end. These the event of divorce complaints are the ones that are not directly related to the deprivation of women rights. 15. Gender discrimination, including equal right to education & work Heads under which complaints are registered 16. Free legal aid for women

10.12 Presently the mandated complaints 17. Privacy of women and rights thereof received in the Commission are broadly registered under the following categories:- 18. Police apathy against women

1. Violence against women:- 19. Reproductive health rights of women

(i) Attempt to rape Analysis of complaints registered during the st year 2015-16 (till 31 December 2015) (Nature (ii) Rape wise and State wise)

(iii) Sexual assault 10.13 During the year 2015-16(till 31st December

2015) 19088 numbers of complaints / cases were (iv) Acid attack registered at the C&I Cell. The Nature-wise and 2. Sex selective abortion; female State-wise distribution of the complaints registered foeticide / amniocentesis by the Commission during the period is given at Annexures- XXXVII & XXXVIII respectively. 3. Sexual harassment including sexual 10.14 Under Section 10(1) and 10(4) of the harassment at workplace National Commission for Women Act, 1990 4. Traditional practices derogatory to NCW takes suo-moto cognizance of cases on the women rights i.e. sati pratha, dev dasi basis of media reports and complaints relating to pratha, witch hunting deprivation of women's rights and non-

107 Annual Report 2015-16 The list of Top Ten Categories (In descending order) under which complaints have been registered:-

Note: In the above table, complaints registered under the Miscellaneous / Non Mandate categories have not been included.

The list of Top Ten States (in descending order) on the basis of number of complaints registered.

implementation of laws enacted to provide promotional and educational research so as to protection to women. Generally, report is suggest ways of ensuring due representation of sought from concerned authorities. In cases of women in all spheres and identify factors serious heinous nature, inquiry committees responsible for impeding their advancement. In are also constituted by the Commission which compliance with this mandate, the Commission submit recommendations to the Commission has promoted several Seminars, Public Hearings, for taking such action as deemed fit against Workshops and Research Studies in order to those allegedly involved in the crime. obtain relevant inputs on subjects considered for

Policy, Programme, Monitoring, Research policy review on issues related to gender equality and empowerment. and Coordination Cell (PPMRCC) 10.16 In its pursuit to get work done in those fields 10.15 Under section 10(1) (h) of the National of women related issues which are timely and Commission for Women Act, 1990, the require special attention of the Commission, during Commission is required to undertake the year 2015-16, the National Commission for

National Commission for Women 108 Women identified some specific issues/ topics issues for undertaking Seminars/ Conferences/ for conducting Research/ Studies like review of Workshops during 2015-16 like empowerment of maternity benefit act, rehabilitation of acid women through property rights, constraints faced attack victims, sexual harassment at workplace, by differently abled women, smart cities with issues of single women etc. The Commission focus on inclusive gender empowerment, disaster also identified some relevant and specific and trafficking: impact on women etc.

Smt. LalithaKumaramangalam, Chairperson, NCW, Smt. Preeti Sudan, Addl. Secretary, MWCD, Dr. SaumyaSwaminathan, Director General, ICMR , representatives of the National Commission for Women and NCPCR during National Consultation on “Surrogacy Issues” held on 15th October, 2015 at VigyanBhawan, New Delhi

Smt. LalithaKumaramangalam, Chairperson, National Commission for Women, Sh. LovVerma, Secretary, Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, representatives of the National Commission for Women and participants during Consultation on “Expanding Opportunities for Women with Disability” held on 2nd December, 2015 at VigyanBhawan, New Delhi

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Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change addressing the participants of National Dialogue on “An Equal Space: Gender Parity in the Media and Entertainment Sector” organized by National Commission for Women in collaboration with Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and ASSOCHAM on 24th August, 2015 at Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi

Legal Cell Legal Awareness Programmes

10.17 In accordance with the mandate of the 10.18 Legal Awareness Generation is a Commission, as per Section 10 of the National paramount importance for upliftment of women Commission for Women Act, 1990, that is,to and, particularly, women living in rural areas. review the existing provisions of the They are ignorant about their legal and other constitution and other laws affecting women rights, their status in the society and in the family and recommend amendments thereto so as to and the solutions to the problems faced by them. suggest remedial legislative measures to meet 10.19 National Commission for Women has any lacunae, inadequacies or short comings in revised guidelines for conducting Legal such legislations, the commission during the Awareness Programmes (LAPs) and developed a year 2015-16 reviewed various laws and made new comprehensive “Standardized Module for recommendations thereto. The Commission is Legal Awareness Programme About Women concerned about spreading awareness about the Related Laws”.Module describes the syllabus / rights and laws related to women and in this laws including recent new legislations and regard a number of awareness programmes amendments such as the Sexual Harassment at were organized with the help of Law colleges, Work Place Act 2013 and The Criminal universities. The Commission is also concerned Amendment Laws 2013 etc. about the capacity building of police officers and in furtherance of the same the Commission 10.20 NCW has also collaborated with National jointly organized with Bureau and Police Legal Service Authority/ reputed Universities/ Research Development Training courses for Law Departments/ Colleges from all over the Women Police Officers in Investigation of cases country to implement the module and to impart involving Crime Against Women. Legal Awareness about women related laws.

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Legal Awareness Programme, organized by the Commission in collaboration with Faculty of Law, JamiaMilliaIslamia, New Delhi on 10th–11th October, 2015

Networking with StateWomen Commissions 2015 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. It was organized with a view to strengthening the 10.21 National Commission for Women (NCW) process of NCW's networking with State Women organized an interactive meeting with State Commissions and to gain from each other's Women Commissions on 4th September, experiences.

Hon'ble Chairperson & Members of NCW, with the representatives of the State Women Commission during the Interactive Meeting held on 4th September, 2015

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Jail and Shelter Home Visit issues pertaining to Non-Resident Indian marriages. The NRI Cell was formally started in 10.22 As per Section 10 (10) of the National NCW on the 24th of September, 2009, to deal Commission for Women Act, one of the with complaints received from India and abroad functions of the National Commission for resulting from cross country marriages involving Women is to inspect or cause to be inspected jails, remand homes, women's institutions or any deprivation of women's rights or any issue causing grave injustice to women. any other place of custody, where women are kept as prisoners, or otherwise and taken up 10.24 NCW largely adopts a convergent with the concerned authorities for remedial approach among various Ministries and efforts action, if found necessary. In order to assess are made to coordinate with others to provide and analyze the condition of women in assistance while taking up matters for assistance custody, the Members of the Commission to the victims. Depending upon the nature of visited the various jails during the year. complaints, the complaints are acted upon. Since

Non-Resident Indian (NRI)Cell its inception in 2009, around 2450 complaints have been registered till 31st December 2015 in 10.23 During the year 2006 - 07, the the NRI Cell of the Commission. During the year Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of 2015-16 (till 31st December 2015), 344 cases th Women (14 Lok Sabha) took up the subject have been registered. State-wise and Country- “Plight of Indian Women deserted by NRI wise cases so registered are given at Annexures- husbands”, for deliberation. Among other XXXIX & XXXX respectively. recommendations, it also recommended that a North East Cell well-defined/co-ordinated mechanism be evolved to deal with the issue of problematic 10.25 National Commission for Women has NRI marriages so as to enable the aggrieved constituted a North East Cell in the Commission to women to obtain a respectable solution to their address the issues related to women of North East problems . To implement these States and to take initiatives for their development recommendations, National Commission for and empowerment. In addition, it also looks into Women was nominated as the Coordinating matters relating to legal review of Acts and codes/ Agency at the National level for dealing with practices specific to the North East States.

Smt. LaldinglianiSailo, Member, NCW addressing the participants during the consultation on issues related to “Single Mothers” organized by the Commission in collaboration with Meghalaya State Commission for Women on 20th – 21st April, 2015 at Shillong, Meghalaya

National Commission for Women 112 10.26 The Meghalaya State Commission for State Women Commissions of Sikkim, Mizoram, Women in association with NCW organised a Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur for conducting National Consultation on issues related to Research Study on “Socio Economic and Political “Single Mothers” at Shillong, Meghalaya. Empowerment of Women in North East States. Delivering the keynote address Ms . 10.28 The website of NCW has information Laldingliani Sailo, Member NCW said the relating to meeting/ Seminar, official visit of single mothers, which included widows, Hon'ble Chairperson and Members of the divorcees, separated and deserted women often Commission and Press Release, inter alia suo- face stigmatisation and financial hardships and motu cases, various publications, annual reports, hence empowerment of women in socio inquiry reports, advertisements of vacancies, economic and educational fields to face these tenders, notices etc., This information is regularly challenges was the need of the hour. being uploaded / updated on the website of the 10.27 During the period under report financial Commission. assistance has been sanctioned to the following

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11

Rashtriya Mahila Kosh

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 11

Rashtriya Mahila Kosh

(National Credit Fund for Women)

11.1 The National Credit Fund for Women 11.3 Objectives: To bring about the socio- known as Rashtriya Mahila Kosh economic upliftment of poor women, RMK (RMK) was set up by the Government provides micro-finance services to the of India in 1993 as a national-level needy and poor women in the informal organization under the Ministry of sector through a client friendly without Women and Child Development, collateral security and third party guarantee. initially with a corpus of Rs. 31 crore in The loans are granted for Income 1993 to meet the credit needs of poor Generating Activities (IGA), housing, and asset less women in the informal micro-enterprises, family needs, etc. RMK sector. The initial corpus of Rs. 31 crore has also taken a number of promotional has grown over to Rs 243 crore measures to popularize the concept of (including reserves and surplus etc.) due women empowerment by way of micro to additional budgetary allocation of Rs financing, thrift and credit, capacity 69.00 crore during 2006-07 to building and marketing linkages through 2009-10 and credit, investment and Self Help Groups (SHGs) format and also recovery management. It is a society r enterprise development for poor women. e g i s t e r e d u n d e r t h e S o c i e t 11.4 Credit–delivery Mechanism Credit is y Registration Act, 1860. provided to the poor women beneficiaries 11.2 Administrative Set Up: A Governing through Intermediary Micro financing Board which administers RMK consists Organizations (IMOs) working at grass of 16 members representing various root level such as NGOs, Women Central Ministries/ Departments, State Federations, Co-operatives, not for profit G o v e r n m e n t s , S p e c i a l i s t s a companies registered under Section 25 of n d Representatives of Organizations the Companies Act and other Voluntary/ active in the field of micro credit. The Civil society organizations, etc. by Hon'ble Minister, Ministry of Women following a client friendly, simple, and Child Development, is the without collateral loan require for Chairperson of the Governing Board livelihood and income generation and the Executive Director of RMK acts activities, housing, micro-enterprises etc. as Member Secretary. A sub-committee 11.5 Loan Schemes of RMK has been setup for revitalization of the organization and taking new initiative in i) Loan Promotion Scheme: RMK provides promoting the objectives of RMK. smaller loan maximum upto Rs. 10 lakh to RMK meets all its administrative and promote the activity of thrift and credit establishment expenditure from internal among newer and smaller but potentially resources. capable organizations having at-least six

117 Annual Report 2015-16 months experience in formation of iii. The office bearers of the organization SHGs, thrift, credit and recovery should not be elected representatives of management. any political party. ii) Main Loan Scheme: IMOs having iv. The organization should have proper minimum 3 years' experience in thrift system of maintaining accounts, which and credit activities are considered for should have been audited and published loan under the scheme to a maximum every year and there should not have been upto Rs 6 crore, Rs 2 crore per State at any serious irregularities. a time. v. The organization should be registered for iii) Refinance Scheme: RMK provides more than 3 years on the date of 100% refinance assistance to Mahila application to RMK. Urban Co-operative Bank on finances vi. The organization should have experience provides by them to poor women either in thrift and credit management for 3 directly or through SHGs within the years or more. (Six months for applying norms of the RMK Main Loan Scheme. under the Loan Promotion Scheme). iv) Franchisee Scheme: Smaller NGOs vii. The application should clearly reflect the of the State can avail loan directly source of funds utilized earlier for credit. from franchisee appointed by RMK viii. Recoveries for the loans given to its for that particular State without members earlier should be at least 90%. sending their proposal to RMK office at New Delhi. RMK gives the Credit ix. There should be proper and specific Limit upto Rs 5 crore to the clause / provision in the Bye-laws / Franchisee who in turn extend to Memorandum of Association of the smaller & potential NGOs in the State. organization having power to borrow or raise loans from any outside agency. v) Gold Credit Pass Book Scheme: This Scheme of providing hassle free x. There should be appropriate reflection in finance has been designed for medium the organization's audited accounts and and large NGOs so as to revolve the balance sheet in respect of its experience fund sanctioned by RMK for 3 years. in providing credit and recoveries etc. Maximum credit limit under this Audited accounts should reflect sound financial management / health. scheme is Rs 5 crore. vi) Housing Loan Scheme: Through its xi. Loan limit per beneficiary (a) first loan – partner organizations RMK provides upto Rs 35,000/-, (b) Repeat loan(s) Rs 50,000/- taken together the existing plus loans upto a maximum Rs. 1,00,000/- new loan. per beneficiary to SHG members for Activities construction of low cost house and repairs. A) Micro- Credit Performance 11.6 Eligibility Norms 11.7 The RMK has extended its IMOs network i. The organization applying for loan across the country including the Andaman & should have broad based objectives, Nicobar Island and the border areas of Jammu & serving the social and economic needs Kashmir. As on 31.12.2015, RMK has sanctioned of the poor women. It must not work cumulative loans of Rs 360.24 crore benefiting for profit. 7,35,239 women. Out of this a sum of Rs 302.38 ii. The organization should have crore was disbursed. The following states are necessary professional competence, major receivers of micro-credit from RMK. A basic financial management capability statement showing State and UT-wise loan and organizational skills to implement sanctioned and beneficiaries (upto 31.12.2015) is the lending programme. at Annexure-XXXXI.

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11.8 The following presentation depicts the activity-wise coverage of micro-credit from RMK.

0.50% 3.30%

2.00% 0.20%

23.00%

18.00%

53.00%

Dairy farming, Goat, Sheep, Pig rearing & fishery - 53%

Various type of Crop cultivation (Agriculture & Horticulture) - 18%

Small Trade / Business / Vending - 23%

Hanloom / Handicraft activities (Bamboo craft, Jute bag making, terra-cota) - 2%

House construction - 0.2%

Consumption Purposes - 0.5%

Other type (Group Activities) - 3.3%

11.9 As per the information furnished by the no fresh loan has been sanctioned till quarter NGO partners, the percentage of coverage of ending 31.12.2015. different sections of society under RMK Loan B) Capacity Building & other Support is as follows: Services

i) - Partnership

11.11 RMK has a network of large number of IMOs in the country, which helps in creating

awareness among the partner organizations to integrate micro-finance activities into their social

sector interventions.

(ii)- Supporting Intermediary Micro 11.10 Details of loans sanctioned, released and Financing Organizations (IMOs) number of beneficiaries covered since inception 11.12 The micro finance programme of RMK for upto 31.12.2015 are given at Annex - I. Due to the socio-economic upliftment of poor women restructuring of RMK and also as the lending through the SHGs is most successful one in the guidelines of RMK is under revision, country. Apart from giving micro-credit to the

119 Annual Report 2015-16 uncovered areas of the country. The performance

of these Nodal Agencies is reviewed from time to time.

11.13 RMK extends bulk finance to Franchisees

who in turn on-lend it to smaller NGOs of the State/ District with similar terms and conditions as prescribed by RMK. These IMOs then lend to

the ultimate women beneficiaries.

C. New Initiatives

(i) Convergence of RMK with National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) of

M/o Rural Development: women beneficiaries, RMK also builds capacity of SHG / women groups and partner NGOs in 11.14 A step has been initiated towards micro-finance and income generation activities convergence of RMK with National Rural to empower them and with a view to enable Livelihood Mission (NRLM) of M/o Rural them to train their fellow members and Development and carrying out the needful prospective beneficiaries. The partner changes in the guidelines of the existing schemes of RMK, wherever required. organizations that take loans from RMK are directed to, inter alia, impart literacy education, C. New Initiatives: health awareness etc. to the women SHG (i) Mahila E-Haat: members. As a part of the developmental initiatives for the future growth of micro 11.15 The Ministry of Women and Child finance, RMK has launched a Nodal Agency Development along with Rashtriya Mahila Kosh Scheme for credit linkages with potential NGOs (RMK) launched 'Mahila E-Haat', an online with a view to expand its outreach in a most marketing platform at RMK website, on 7th cost effective manner in the remote or March 2016.

Mahila E-Haat, an online marketing platform to bring buyers & women entrepreneurs together, launched by Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Hon'ble Minister of Women and Child Development on 7th March, 2016 at New Delhi.

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Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Hon'ble Minister of Women and Child Development with the Officials of the Ministry and Rashtriya Mahila Kosh on the occasion of launching of Mahila-E-haat in New Delhi on 7th March, 2016

11.16 Mahila E-Haat is an initiative for with 'Make in India' initiative of the Government meeting aspirations and needs of women of India. There will be no registration charges till entrepreneurs which will leverage technology 31.12.2016 for participation by vendors in Mahila for showcasing products made/manufactured/ E-Haat. sold by women entrepreneurs. They can even 11.18 This is expected to result in a paradigm showcase their services reflecting creative shift enabling women to exercise control over potential. This unique e-platform will their finances and will lead to their inclusive strengthen the socio-economic empowerment participation in the economy. of women as it will mobilise and provide better avenues to them. (ii) Convergence of RMK with National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) of 11.17 Participation in E-Haat is open to all M/o Rural Development: Indian women citizens more than 18 years of age and women SHGs desiring for marketing 11.19 A step has been initiated towards their legal products/ services after convergence of RMK with National Rural indemnifying RMK from any or all acts of Livelihood Mission (NRLM) of M/o Rural transaction. It will provide a marketing development and carrying out the needful platform to women across the country in line changes in the guidelines of the existing schemes of RMK, wherever required.

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12

National Commission for

Protection of Child Rights

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 12

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

(NCPCR)

12.1 The National Commission for Protection and prostitution and recommend of Child Rights (NCPCR) was constituted by appropriate remedial measures; the Government of India, Ministry of Women (v) Look into the matters relating to children & Child Development as a Statutory Body in in need of special care and protection March, 2007 under the Commissions for including children in distress, Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005, marginalized and disadvantaged children, to protect, promote and defend child rights in children in conflict with law, juveniles, the country. children without family and children of Mandate prisoners and recommend appropriate

remedial measures; 12.2 The Commission has been mandated to perform all or any of (vi) Study treaties and other international the following functions: instruments and undertake periodical

Under Section 13(1) of the CPCR Act, 2005 review of existing policies, programmes and other activities on child rights and (i) Examine and review the safeguards make recommendations for their effective provided by or under any law for the implementation in the best interest of time being in force for the protection of children;

child rights and recommend measures (vii) Undertake and promote research in the for their effective implementation; field of child rights; (ii) Present to the Central Government, (viii) Spread child rights literacy among various annually and at such other intervals, as sections of the society and promote the Commission may deem fit, reports awareness of the safeguards available for upon the working of those safeguards; protection of these rights through (iii) Inquire into violation of child rights publications, the media, seminars and and recommend initiation of other available means;

proceedings in such cases; (ix) Inspect or cause to be inspected any (iv) Examine all factors that inhibit the juvenile custodial home, or any other enjoyment of rights of children affected place of residence or institution meant for by terrorism, communal violence, riots, children, under the control of the Central natural disaster, domestic violence, Government or any State Government or HIV/AIDS, trafficking, maltreatment, any other authority, including any torture and exploitation, pornography institution run by a social organization;

125 Annual Report 2015-16 where children are detained or lodged (v) promote, respect and serious consideration for the purpose of treatment, of the views of children in its work and in reformation or protection and take up that of all Government Departments and with these authorities for remedial Organizations dealing with child;

action, if found necessary; (vi) produce and disseminate information (x) Inquire into complaints and take suomo about child rights;

to notice of matters relating to :- (vii) compile and analyze data on children; a. deprivation and violation of child (viii) promote the incorporation of child rights rights; into the school curriculum, teachers b. non-implementation of laws providing training and training of personnel dealing for protection and development of with children.

children; Under Section 31 of the Right of Children to c. non-compliance of policy decisions, Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, guidelines or instructions aimed at 2009:

mitigating hardships to and ensuring (i) examine and review the safeguards for welfare of the children and to provide rights provided by or under this Act and relief to such children, or take up the recommend measures for their effective issues arising out of such matters with implementation; appropriate authorities; and (ii) inquire into complaints relating to child's (xi) Such other functions as it may right to free and compulsory education. consider necessary for the promotion of child rights and any other matter (iii) take necessary steps as provided under incidental to the above functions. sections 15 and 24 of the said Commissions

for Protection of Child Rights Act. Under Rule 17 of the NCPCR Rules, 2006: Under Section 44 of the Protection of Children (i) analyse existing law, policy and from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and Rule practice to assess compliance with 6 of POCSO Rules, 2012: Convention on the Rights of the Child, undertake inquiries and produce (a) to monitor in the implementation of reports on any aspect of policy or Protection of Children from Sexual practice affecting children and Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012;

comment on proposed new legislation (b) to monitor the designation of Special from a child rights perspective; Courts by State Governments;

(ii) present to the Central Government (c) to monitor the appointment of Public annually and at such other intervals as Prosecutors by State Governments; the Commission may deem fit, reports upon the working of those safeguards; (d) to monitor the formulation of the guidelines described in section 39 of the Act by the (iii) undertake formal investigations where State Governments, for the use of non- concern has been expressed either by governmental organisations, professionals children themselves or by concerned and experts or persons having knowledge of person on their behalf; psychology, social work, physical health, (iv) ensure that the work of the mental health and child development to be Commission is directly informed by associated with the pre-trial and trial stage the views of children in order to to assist the child, and to monitor the reflect priorities and perspective; application of these guidelines;

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights 126 (e) to monitor the designing and work for promoting the welfare of implementation of modules for children; and training police personnel and other (ii) Six Members (out of which at least two concerned persons, including officers shall be women) from the following fields of the Central and State Governments, to be appointed by the Central Government for the effective discharge of their from amongst persons of eminence, ability, functions under the Act; integrity, standing and experience in: (a) (f) to monitor and support the Central Education; (b) Child health, care, welfare or Government and State Governments child development;(c) juvenile justice or for the dissemination of information care of neglected or marginalized children relating to the provisions of the Act or children with disabilities; (d) through media including the elimination o f c h i l d l a b o u r o r c h i l television, radio and print media at d r e n i n distress;(e)child psychology or regular intervals, so as to make the sociology; and(f)laws relating to children general public, children as well as Activities their parents and guardians aware of the provisions of the Act; 12.4 The Commission looked into various areas and made interventions in the areas of right of (g) to call for a report on any specific case children to education, child labour, sexual of child sexual abuse falling within the exploitation of children, trafficking, interstate jurisdiction of a CWC; migration, unregulated children homes, (h) to collect information and data on its orphanages, HIV/AIDS, health/nutrition, rights of own or from the relevant agencies children in area of civil unrest. The intervention regarding reported cases of sexual made by the Commission extended to most states. abuse and their disposal under the Five essential core management principles viz: processes established under the Act, decentralization, flexibility, institution building i n c l u d i n g i n f o r m a t i o n o n t h e processes, convergence and listening to children following:- and their voices guided formulation of policies (i) Number and details of offences and delivery of services. Monitoring Child's Right to Education reported under the Act; (ii) Whether the procedures prescribed 12.5 NCPCR has been mandated to monitor 'right under the Act and rules were followed, of children to education' under the Right of including those regarding timeframes; Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. (iii) Details of arrangements for care and protection of victims of offences under (a) Assessment of schools in partnership this Act, including arrangements for with SCPCRs/CWCs: The Commission emergency medical care and medical undertook monitoring of schools in examination; and partnership with the SCPCRs to assess the (iv) Details regarding assessment of the performance of schools for monitoring the need for care and protection of a child infrastructural facilities with reference to by the concerned CWC in any specific RTE. The school assessment exercise was case. carried out in seven States i.e. Haryana, 12.3 Composition of the NCPCR Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha, The Commission comprises of: Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, & West Bengal. Total 1131 schools in 114 districts had been (i) Chairperson who is a person of covered in the monitoring exercise. The eminence and has done outstanding performance of the schools was monitored

127 Annual Report 2015-16 on the basis of the themes including 1) More than 120 stakeholders from the School Details, 2) Enrolment, 3) western region of the country including Boundary Wall, 4) Toilet, 5) Drinking from the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Water, 6) Classrooms, 7) Playgrounds, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Goa 8) Barrier Free Access, 9) Library, 10) participated in the programme. Mid-Day Meal, 11) Quality Learning, The Southern Region Consultation was 12) Corporal Punishment & Grievance organized in collaboration with Andhra Redress and 13) School Management Pradesh State Commission for Protection Committee. Based on the findings a of Child Rights (APSCPCR) at Sri report is under print. Venkateswara University (SV), Tirupathi, (b) Regional Consultations on “New Andhra Pradesh (AP). In this day long E d u c a t i o n P o l i c y : N a t i o n consultation, about 350 participants a l Commission for Protection for including representatives from southern Child Rights (NCPCR) organized two states viz. Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Regional Consultations on “New Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, & Education Policy” in Goa and Tirupati P u d u c h e r r y p a r t i c i p a t e d i n t on 20th February, 2016 and 24th h e deliberations. Children from various February, 2016 respectively. schools of Tirupati also participated in the

The Regional Consultation in Goa was deliberation. During the programme a organized at Goa University, Goa in c o special session for children was organized in which children actively participated & l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h G o a S t a t e shared their views. Commission for Protection of Child Rights and with the support of (d) SUO-MOTO Action by the Commission:

Directorate of Education, Govt. of Goa. i) Fake Admission under EWS category:

Regional Consultations on “New Education Policy: (Goa 20th February, 2016)

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights 128 N C P C R h a s t a k e n s u o - m o t o earthquake of 25.04.2015 in Nepal and cognizance of the news item published the subsequent aftershocks resulted in the in the Delhi edition of Times of India death of over 9000 people and damaged dated 17th June 2016, regarding report more than 5000 school classrooms. by the Delhi Police where ineligible NCPCR has sent a communication on students got admission under the 24.06.2015 to all the Principal Secretaries Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Chairpersons of all the SCPCRs and Disadvantaged Group (DG) quota advising to reassess the structural strength on the basis of forged income of school buildings, especially in the high certificates and other documents. In this seismic zones in the country, to ensure context, the Commission has sent a that the schools have sufficient open area, letter dated 24th June 2015 to Principal and to impart basic training with the help Secretaries (Education) of all of Disaster Management Authorities to States/UTs to launch a Special Drive to the teachers and students to handle such examine and verify the admission situation.

records of last three years. v) Advisory to Government of NCT of ii) Suo-Moto Cognizance regarding Delhi: The Government of NCT of Delhi two children drowned in swimming had directed all the Heads of Govt. schools pool in a private school in Bhopal: to ensure the participation of the school On the basis of a news report “two students in the Odd Even Campaign during children drown in swimming pool in 1st-15th January, 2016. In this connection, Gyan Ganga International Academy, the Commission sent a letter dated Hoshangabad Road, Bhopal”. The 31.12.2015 to the Director, Department of incident took place on 4th December, Education, Government of NCT of Delhi to 2015. In this context, Shri Priyank ensure that the rights of the children during Kanoongo, Member, NCPCR visited this campaign should not be violated and the said school on 08.12.2015. ensure that proper steps for safety and Subsequently, the District Collector security of the children are taken.

has been written to submit a detailed Complaints status under RTE: report of the incident along with relevant documents. 12.6 During the period April, 2015 to February, 2016, the Commission has received 57 new iii) Suo-Moto Cognizance of an article complaints and disposed off 462 complaints published in The Indian Express which include complaints of previous years. titled as “Kota Suicides: Strict regulations in offing for coaching Inspection of Juvenile Homes/ Jail Visits under institutes” dated 5thNovember, 2015. JJ Act, 2000

The Commission has asked the 12.7 In compliance with the Hon'ble Delhi High Principal Secretary, Education, court's Judgment dated 11.05.2012 in the W.P. (C) Government of Rajasthan to send a 8889/ 2011, the Commission constituted a panel of detailed report on reported cases of lawyers to visit the Tihar Jail in order to identify any suicides with all relevant documents as juvenile that may have been sent to an adult jail. per the report received from the State Govt. necessary directions have been 12.8 NCPCR conducted a meeting with the issued by Chief Secretary of the State. Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA) on 20th July, 2015 in the Commission for the iv) A d v i s o r y t o t h e S t a t e s f o r constitution of a Jail visit Board and a Medical Earthquake: The devastating

129 Annual Report 2015-16 Board comprising of officials/experts from interim/final compensation to the child victims the NCPCR, as part of the team. During the and convicting the offenders. reporting period 04 such visits were 12.14 The Ministry of Women and Child conducted to Tihar Jail. Total 92 inmates Development (MWCD), Government of India and identified as probable juveniles. The reports the National Commission for Protection of Child of the same were prepared and sent to the Rights (NCPCR), New Delhi organized 'National Delhi State Legal Services Authority for Conference of Implementation of the Protection of further action in the matter. Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, Complaints of violation of Child Rights 2012' at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi on 14th violations/deprivation January 2016. In all, 102 officers of Central

12.9 The NCPCR, under section 13 of 'The Government and officers/ representatives from state Governments and Non-Government Organization Commissions for Protection of Child Rights participated in the Conference. Act (CPCR), 2005', is mandated to enquire into complaints related to the violation of 12.15 NCPCR addressed Letters to the Principal child rights. Secretaries of all States/UTs for seeking information on registered & unregistered Child 12.10 During the year 2015-16 (from April to Care Institutions in the State/UT. Information February 2015), the Commission received 162 received was compiled for monitoring activities complaints pertaining to deprivation and during period under report. violation of child rights (excluding RTE) and disposed off 329 including complaints of Children in contact with Railways previous years. The maximum number of 12.16 On the occasion of Foundation Day of complaints, 57 were from the State of Uttar NCPCR on 5th March, 2015, the Hon'ble Pradesh, followed by Delhi with 17 complaints. Minister, WCD released Standard Operating 12.11 NCPCR took the cognizance of a case Procedure (SOP) for care & protection of regarding mental and sexual abuse of minor children coming in contact with Railways, as girls in a shelter home in Hisar (Haryana) and prepared by Ministry of Railways in consultation sent a team from NCPCR for spot enquiry. with MWCD and NCPCR. During the year SOP Later on, Action Taken Report was submitted has been implemented through CHILDLINE by the State government. Partners of Childline India Foundation (CIF) at

the 20 Railway Stations as identified in SOP. 12.12 NCPCR and DCPCR inquired about two separate incidents involving abduction 12.17 NCPCR is monitoring the implementation and sexual abuse of minor girls in Delhi. A of operating instructions as laid down in the SOP letter was sent to Commissioner of Police, and also organized sensitization workshops at Delhi on 28th October, 2015 to provide a Lucknow, Bangalore, Ranchi and Allahabad and detailed Action Taken Report in both the sensitized around 500 GRP/RPF and Railway cases. The ATR has been received and is officials. being examined in the Commission. 12.18 NCPCR organized a two day workshop on 12.13 A s p a r t o f m o n i t o r i n g t h e 8th-9th December, 2015 in NCPCR to monitor the implementation of the POCSO Act, 2012, the status of implementation of SOP at 20 selected Commission continued to seek information R a i l w a y S t a t i o n s . N C P C R f a c i l i t a t from all States/UTs on designating special e d implementation of operative instructions of SOP courts, public prosecutors, preparation of from Railways in respect of gaps as reported by guidelines, training module for police Childline India Foundation Partners. NCPCR also personnel, orders of special courts on granting monitored the data in regard to children rescued at

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights 130 these Railway Stations and produced before Chandigarh SCPCR, organized one-day CWC. regional workshop of Chairpersons of Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) of States of 12.19 NCPCR decided to conduct 6 Regional Punjab, Chandigarh and Haryana on Training Workshops at Mumbai, Delhi, 18.04.2015. The issues discussed in the Bangalore, Kolkata, Guwahati, and Nagpur for workshop were: efficiency of Juvenile Railway officials in collaboration with Railway Justice Boards; gaps in Juvenile Justice Children India (RCI), an NGO working for (Care and Protection of Children) Act, Railway Children. In this regard workshops at 2000; and how to improve intra and inter Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore have been th th rd agency coordination. In all, 44 Judicial organized on 19 February, 24 February and 3 Officers participated in the workshop. The March, 2016 respectively. report of the workshop was forwarded to all concerned for implementation of State Commissions for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCRs) recommendations.

12.20 State Commissions for Protection of ii) NCPCR in collaboration with National Child Rights (SCPCRs) have been constituted Judicial Academy, Bhopal organized a under section-17 of the Commissions for two day National Conference of Members Protection of Child Rights (CPCR) Act, 2005 of Juvenile Justice Boards (JJBs) of the th th for protection of child rights at State level. States/Union Territories on 27 -28 May The SCPCRs have also been mandated to 2015. The objectives of the conference monitor 'Children's Rights to Education' of were: the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory a) To understand technical issues that defeat Education (RTE), Act, 2009 and POCSO Act, the objectives of the Juvenile Justice Act; 2012. SCPCRs have been constituted in all the States/UTs except for Daman & Diu. b) To learn from the judges/members about their practical procedural difficulties in 12.21 The NCPCR conducts meetings with the administering justice to the child trapped SCPCRs with the objective to create a common in the Criminal Justice System. platform for NCPCR and SCPCRs to deliberate on various issues pertaining to child rights In all, 95 Principal Magistrates and including RTE Act, 2009; to share information, members of Juvenile Justice Boards from challenges and best practices; and to 25 States participated in the Conference. collectively suggest strategies to strengthen the iii) NCPCR in collaboration with Department monitoring process as mandated to the Commissions. During the year 2015-16, a of Psychiatry of AIIMS, New Delhi meeting with the Chairperson of SCPCRs was conducted a workshop on 'Sensitization of th Tr a i n e r s / S t a f f a n d Tr a i n e e s o conducted on 7 January, 2016 wherein various st nd issues towards monitoring the implementation n Psychological Issues' on 21 & 22 July, of the JJ Act, POCSO Act, 2012 and RTE Act, 2015 at NIS, Patiala with Sports Authority 2009 as mandated, and developmental policies of India (SAI). About 200 participants - 100 sports persons and 100 coaches/staff and programmes for children were discussed. selected by the SAI were sensitized 12.22 I n f o r m a t i o n E d u c a t i o n a n d separately during the two days training.

Communications activities vi) NCPCR in coordination with CHETNA, i) NCPCR in collaboration with an NGO working for Railway Children, Chandigarh Judicial Academy and organized a one day sensitization

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programme for RPF and Railway Developing of Standard Operating Procedure officials on implementation of SOP for (SOP) for rehabilitation and restoration of care and protection of children in the Children in Conflict with Law vicinity of Railways on 21stAugust, 12.25 The Ministry of Women and Child 2015 at Allahabad. The workshop Development, Government of India vide OM no sensitized 80 participants from CW-II-16/42/2015-CW-II dated 30th December Allahabad, Jhansi and Agra Divisions 2015 constituted a Committee for Developing of a of North Central Railway. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for vii) A workshop on 'Sensitization of rehabilitation and restoration of Juveniles in Sportspersons and Trainers/Staff on Conflict with Law. Upto March, 2016, 8 meetings Psychological Issues' was coordinated of the Committee have been held at National by NCPCR and organized on 15th- Commission for Protection of Child Rights 16thSeptember, 2015 at SAI Centre, (NCPCR) and Delhi Commission for Protection of Bengaluru. Prof.Shesadri, Department Child Rights (DCPCR). The Committee is in of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, advanced stage of preparing SOPs for various NIMHANS, Bengaluru led a team of stakeholders in connection with rehabilitation and restoration of Children in Conflict with Law. experts from NIMHANS to conduct the workshop. About 200 participants-100 Consultation of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) sportspersons and 100 coaches/staff selected by the SAI were sensitized 12.26 National Commission for Protection of separately during the two days training. Child Rights (NCPCR) organized a Consultation of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) dealing with E-Governance Children in Conflict with Law (CCL) on 8th 12.23 National Commission for Protection of February 2016 at India Habitat Centre, New Child Rights has started digitization of all Delhi. The Consultation was organized to discuss records and files to implement e-office. the present status of CCIs, challenges faced and NCPCR has also started working through e- initiatives taken for rehabilitation of such office. children. The Consultation was widely attended by Principal Secretaries/senior officials of 12 Survey of Child Care Institutions (CCIs) States, Superintendents of CCIs dealing with 12.24 As directed by MWCD inspection of all CCLs, Chairpersons of States Commission for Child Care Institutions (CCIs) in the country Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR), Members of the Committee and representatives of NGOs. is being undertaken by Childline India Foundation (CIF) in collaboration with Two Day's 9th Foundation Day Celebrations NCPCR. on 4th & 5th March, 2016

12.27 The Commission organized a programme for slum children in collaboration with Save the Children and other NGOs at Ramjas Sports Complex, Patel Nagar, New Delhi on 4th March 2016. In this programme several activities like art and craft work, puppet making and performances by children were organised.

12.28 On 5th March, 2016 the Commission organized its 9th Foundation Day at Adharshila

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights 132 Observation Home for Boys, Sewa Kutir, Near Observation Home. It was followed by an Kingsway Camp, New Delhi. The theme for interactive session with Shri Gautam Gambhir. Foundation Day was “Naya Savera” “A Day A cultural programme by the children of the Dedicated to Children in Conflict with Law. In Home and the Song and Drama Division of the this programme Shri Gautam Gambhir, Indian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting was Cricket Player participated as Guest of Honour also organized. and motivated the 180 children of the

Pre-Foundation Day of NCPCR (4th March, 2016) 9th Foundation Day of NCPCR (5th March, 2016)

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13

Central Adoption

Resource Authority (CARA)

Towards a New Dawn

Chapter 13

Central Adoption Resource

Authority (CARA)

13.1 Central Adoption Resource Authority care for their expeditious placement with (CARA), which was an Autonomous Body of alternate families. the Ministry of Women & Child Development, 13.3 The main aim of CARA is to facilitate the Government of India, has now become a adoption of as many Indian children as possible. Statutory Body as per the provisions under These children would thus benefit from adoption. Section 68 of the Juvenile Justice (Care & CARA is also required to act as a clearing house Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (Act No. 2 of for information about children available for 2016), which has been notified on 31/12/2015 adoption; develop public awareness campaigns; and has come into force w.e.f. 15/01/2016. It undertake research and evaluation; monitor and functions as a nodal body at National level on regulate the work of recognised and associated adoption related matters of Indian children. agencies; liaison with the other central authorities CARA has been mandated to : and foreign missions and ensure post-adoption (a) Promote in-country adoptions and to follow-up and care for the adopted children.

facilitate inter-State adoptions in 13.4 At present, there are 410 Specialised coordination with State Agencies; Adoption Agencies (SAAs) recognised by State (b) Regulate inter-country adoptions; Governments / UTs concerned, for placing

(c) Frame regulations on adoption and children in adoption. CARA has authorised 79 foreign adoption agencies in 26 countries (on the related matters from time to time, as basis of the recommendation of the Central may be necessary; Authority and Indian Diplomatic Mission (d) carry out the functions of the Central concerned, for facilitating inter-country adoption Authority under the Hague of Indian children. In addition, Central Authorities Convention on Protection of Children / Government Departments concerned are also & Cooperation in respect of inter- involved in performing the aforesaid tasks in country adoption; and those countries where there are no Authorised Foreign Adoption Agencies (AFAAs). (e) Any other function as may be prescribed. Organizational Structure

13.2 The vision of CARA is to find a loving 13.5 CARA had been governed by a and caring family for every orphan, abandoned Management Committee comprising of official and surrendered child. Its mission is to work members from Central Government Ministries for expeditious rehabilitation of orphan, concerned and State Government as well as non- abandoned and surrendered children in a loving official members representing civil societies. and caring family through adoption. CARA However, as per the provision under Section 69 advocates for children without parental of Juvenile Justice Act (Care & Protection of

137 Annual Report 2015-16 Children) 2015, the functioning of CARA is programmes for adoption agencies, and now to be guided by a Steering Committee. other stakeholders engaged in child The Authority shall have a Steering welfare activities.

Committee with following members: To carry out advocacy, awareness (a) Secretary, Ministry of Women and andpublicity activities for promoting Child Development, Government of in-country adoption of orphan, India, who shall be the Chairperson— abandoned and surrendered children.

ex officio; To act as the Central Authority under (b) Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and theHague Convention on Protection of Child Development, Government of Children and Cooperation in respect of India, dealing with Authority—ex Inter-country Adoption,1993.

officio; To authorise foreign adoption agencies (c) Joint Secretary, Ministry of Women and tosponsor applications of prospective Child Development, Government of Adoptive Parents (PAPs) for Inter- India, dealing with Finance—ex officio; country Adoption of Indian children.

(d) one State Adoption Resource Agency To monitor the work of specialised and two Specialised Adoption Agencies; adoption agencies for processing

(e) one adoptive parent and one adoptee; adoption cases.

(f) one advocate or a professor having at To maintain a comprehensive database of adoptions. least ten years of experience in family law; Associated Authorities and Agencies

(g) Member-Secretary, who shall also be 13.7 The Authorities and Agencies associated with Chief Executive Officer of the CARA in the adoption process are as follows – Organization. Concerned Department of the The Member Secretary functions as the Chief StateGovernments and UT Executive Officer of the organisation. CARA Administrations dealing with adoption has sanctioned strength of 27 Officers and (Department of Women & Child Staffs altogether. Development, Social Welfare or Social Justice, as the case may be); Functions State Adoption Resource Agencies(SARAs) 13.6 The major functions of CARA are as as the executive arm of the State follows - Governments concerned for promoting, To act as a nodal body at national levelon facilitating and regulating adoption matters related to adoption in the process at the State level; country. Child Welfare Committees (CWCs), To issue a ―No Objection Certificate‖for whichdeclare orphan, abandoned and inter-country adoption. surrendered children as legally free for adoption under the relevant provisions of To monitor the status of children placedin the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection inter-country adoption. of Children) Act; To frame rules and guidelines foradoption Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs); of Indian children. The Central Authority or the concerned To arrange for the capacity building

Central Adoption Resource Authority 138 Department dealing with inter-country rehabilitation of children without parental care in adoption in the Receiving (foreign) alternate families. A number of capacity building programmes have been organised for various Countries; Authorised Foreign Adoption Agencies( A stakeholders at the State level to sensitise them on FA A s ) , w h i c h s p o n s o r t h e the advantages of early rehabilitation and applications of adoptive parents living integration of the child into a family environment abroad (NRI / OCI / PIO and foreign and to update data on CARINGS (Child Adoption parents) and follow up the progress of Resource Information & Guidance System), an IT Indian Children placed in inter country application introduced by CARA for greater adoption. transparency in the adoption system. Continuous promotional efforts and enhanced coordination Adoption Database: between Government and adoption agencies have led to a better reporting system. In order to orient the functionaries of adoption agencies and

stakeholders on new adoption guidelines (2015), CARA has organized several training and

development activities. Such programmes enabled CARA to map the expectations of the stakeholders of the adoption programme and identify areas

which needed special intervention.

National Familiarization Programme for State / Union Territories on New Adoption Guidelines

13.9 National Familiarization Programme for Activities undertaken by CARA during State / Union Territories on New Adoption 2015-2016 (upto December, 2015): Guidelines, 2015 was organised by CARA at 13.8 CARA is mandated to work for the Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, New Delhi. The sensitization of the stakeholders involved programme was attended by representatives from directly or indirectly for the protection and 36 states and also had representatives from

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi addressing the National Familiarization Programme for States/UTs on New Adoption Guidelines, in New Delhi on August 18, 2015. The officers of the Ministry are also seen.

139 Annual Report 2015-16 Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of External governance initiative on adoption, was Affairs, Ministry of Overseas Affairs and launched by the Government in Registrar General of India & Others. February 2011. CARINGS is Government of India's dynamic 13.10 The programme was inaugurated by our response for a systematic, transparent Hon'ble Minister, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, and friendly adoption process. It Ministry of Women & Child Development. The programme was organised to appraise the group facilitates expeditious and smooth about new Guidelines Governing Adoption of adoption, Children, 2015, revamped CARINGS and to ensures transparency in the adoption discuss methods to check rampant illegal process, adoptions and bring more children in the pool increases accountability of implementing for adoption. agencies, 13.11 Promotional / Capacity Building creates a network of stakeholders Programmes Organised on Adoption: CARA towardsimproved synergy, and organized a number of consultations/orientation maintains a national database to programmes for various stake holders for enableeffective policy making and different States in the country. research. Guidelines Governing Adoption of Children, Special Needs Module is available inChild 2015: Adoption Resource Information &

13.12 Guidelines Governing Adoption of Guidance System (CARINGS) – This Children was revised in 2015 and it has brought module was introduced to facilitate about – placement of speed needs children.. From April, 2015 till December, 2015, greater transparency and clarity CARA has placed 455 children in inter- simplify adoption procedure for country adoption out of which 205 in/intercountry and inter-state children have got special needs. adoptions DCPU Module is available in minimize delays in adoption process ChildAdoption Resource Information withfixed timelines & Guidance System (CARINGS) – a monitoring tool for district level child expand adoption base by setting uplinkages protection officers. So far 441 DCPUs between SAA and CCI to reach all are already registered in CARINGS. adoptable children CARINGS has helped us in streamliningthe enable PAPs to take informed decisions adoption programme in the country introduce e-governance in adoptionsystem bringing about transparency in the adoption programme. It has been very effective in monitoring the adoption revision of age criteria programme in the country. The impact streamline inter-country adoption of C A R I N G S h a s b e e n w i d e l y andexclude ARC Clearance acknowledged and being appreciated as New Initiatives instrument of innovation on adoption system. 13.13 The Central Adoption Authority (CARA) has taken the following initiatives for bringing Secretary, CARA held meetings withHon'ble greater transparency in the adoption system – Chief Justice and Family Court Judges, Principal Secretaries and Commissioners Child Adoption Resource Information of the State Departments to address the &Guidance System (CARINGS) is an State issues including, e-

Central Adoption Resource Authority 140 delays in the adoption petitions filed in for Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) the various courts / CWC through visits and the same has been used widely in in various states. multi-media campaign.

Inspections / visits of Adoption Agencies Active use of social media like –Facebook to 13.14 CARA officials have inspected / visited create awareness regarding online the following adoption agencies during the year adoption process. These pages are 2015-2016 (upto December, 2015) : regularly updated.

Bilingual (Hindi & English) tutorials havebeen prepared for explaining the

online process of registration on CARINGS for Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs).

CARA is maintaining the You-Tube pagefor

public wherein tutorials & video spots are available for promoting new

adoption process and making it understandable for PAPs.

Video Conferencing on Adoption with States/UTs:

13.16 CARA has organized video conferencing

with senior State Government officials under the chairpersonship of Secretary, Ministry of Women & Child Development for streamlining

Publicity &Awareness : the adoption programme in the States :

13.15 Public Notice was issued by CARA for Specialised Adoption Agencies (SAAs) and Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) with reference to online adoption process and New Adoption Guidelines, 2015.

Advertisement was also issued in allleading newspapers including regional newspapers on illegal adoption to curb the menace of illegal adoption.

One of quarterly CARA Newsletter(Adoption Connect) released containing all the activities undertaken during the said period.

An Article explaining the adoptionprocess was published in Airport Authority Magazine – ―Airports India‖.

Production of four video spots and audiospots for promoting adoption procedure

141 Annual Report 2015-16 year 2015-2016 can be classified as under:

Child Adoption Resource Information

&Guidance System (CARINGS) has been upgraded;

Notification of 'Guidelines

GoverningAdoption of Children – 2015' in July' 2015;

More than 400 adoption agencies are

nowregistered online through CARINGS;

Now large pool of suitable prospectiveadoptive parents are

available for adoption;

Fast-tracking of rehabilitation of Achievements specialneeds children through Special 13.17 While achievement cannot be quantified, Needs Module. some of the major accomplishments during the Mandatory online adoption process

Budget and Expenditure:

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