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The Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (National Credit Fund for Women) was set up in 1993 to make credit available for lower income women in India. [2] More recent programs initiated by the Government of India include the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS), the Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana , Conditional Maternity Benefit plan (CMB), as well as ...
Central sector scheme actual spending in 2017-18 was ₹ 587,785 crore (equivalent to ₹ 6.6 trillion or US$77 billion in 2023), [8] in 2019-20 it was ₹ 757,091 crore (equivalent to ₹ 8.5 trillion or US$99 billion in 2023) while the budgeted amount for 2021-22 is ₹ 1,051,703 crore (equivalent to ₹ 12 trillion or US$140 billion in 2023 ...
In 2016, the idea of a Universal Basic Income in India made huge news by taking up over forty pages in the 2016–2017 India Economic Survey [3] as a serious and feasible solution to India's poverty and a hope for the economy as a whole. In India, this was an idea that has been discussed for decades in both the public and private spheres.
The directorate of social welfare is responsible for welfare schemes such as marriage assistance to poor, protection of girl children, nutritious meal for children and supply of uniforms to school children. [2] The department runs service homes for the destitute and young girls and working women hostels in district headquarters and industrial ...
[1] The Directive Principles of State Policy, enshrined in Part IV of the Indian Constitution reflects that India is a welfare state. Food security to all Indians are guaranteed under the National Food Security Act, 2013 where the government provides highly subsidised food grains or a food security allowance to economically vulnerable people.
The scheme is administered by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. It is fully funded by the Central Government, unlike some other welfare programs where the Union government shares costs with the State Governments. Allocation of funds for NSAP by Government of India between 2009–10 and 2014–15 (in Crore Rs.): [9]
A public activist for women's emancipation, she founded the Andhra Mahila Sabha (Andhra Women's Conference) in 1937. She was also the founder chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board. In 1953, she married C.D. Deshmukh, the first Indian governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Finance Minister in India's Central Cabinet from 1950 to ...
The history of feminism in India can be divided into three phases: the first phase, beginning in the mid-19th century, initiated when reformists began to speak in favour of women rights by making reforms in education and customs involving women; [2] [3] the second phase, from 1915 to Indian independence, when Gandhi incorporated women's ...