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BHUBANESWAR: In a move to ensure transparency, accountability and efficiency in implementation of various welfare schemes for women and children, the Odisha government has decided to set up a command and control centre in the Women and Child Development department. The WCD department implements several developmental programmes and key welfare schemes like Mamata, Poshan Abhiyaan, Mukhymantri Sampoorna Pushti Yojana, Supplementary …

Why Delhi's Rs 1,000 for women scheme could be a non-starter before elections

The Delhi Cabinet approved the Mukhyamantri Mahila Samman Yojna, aiming to empower women through an unconditional cash transfer scheme offering Rs 1,000. The Planning Department has raised concerns that the scheme could discourage women's participation in the labour force by making them more reliant on cash transfers instead of seeking employment. The WCD Department has proposed a contractual hiring model …

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Till April this year, the lives of the two sisters were the definition of comfortable. But there was one thin glimmer of hope: a government scheme that promised children who lost even one parent to Covid-19 a monthly pension of ₹5,000 till they turned 21, free ration and importantly, free education. On May 13, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh …

MP govt to rechristen Ladli Laxmi scheme, aims to make girls self-reliant

The Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led Madhya Pradesh government has apparently realised the flaws in the save the girl child campaign called Ladli Laxmi Scheme 13 years after it was launched. State women and child development department officials said the LLS couldn’t be effective as more focus was given on providing financial assistance to girls for school education and also for their …