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Revamped version of 1995 Midday Meal Scheme to provide free lunch to school children. Financial outlay in 2022 was ₹ 10,233 crore (equivalent to ₹ 110 billion or US$1.3 billion in 2023). [7] Grouped under the umbrella scheme "Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0", it aims to reducing stunting, under-nutrition, anemia, and low birth weight. [22 ...
In 2013-14, the ratio of young workers among total MGNREGA workers was 13.64 per cent which came down to 7.73 percent in 2017-18 before rising to 9.1 percent in 2018-19 and 10.06 percent in 2019-20.The trend shows that a steady decline in the proportion of young workers, those between 18 and 30, under the Act has halted and has begun to rise in ...
The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in government primary and upper primary schools, government aided Anganwadis, Madarsa and Maqtabs. [3] Serving 120 million children in over 1.27 million schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, the Midday Meal Scheme is the largest of its kind in the world.
Nikshay Poshan Yojana is a government scheme in India to provide 500 rupees per month for tuberculosis patients to buy food. [ 1 ] By February 2019 the programme reported that more than 10,000 people had received benefits in Delhi and 3800 were taking benefit in Sonitpur district .
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Aawas Yojana (lit. ' Prime Minister's Rural Housing Scheme ') is a social welfare programme under the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, to provide housing for the rural poor in India. [1]
The features of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana are that the government will provide an interest subsidy of 6.5% (for EWS and LIG), 4% for MIG-I and 3% for MIG-II [11] [12] on housing loans availed by the beneficiaries for a period of 20 years under credit link subsidy scheme (CLSS) from the start of a loan.
Difficulties emerged with this smartphone app's reportedly being hard to use, being written in only English, and demanding more memory than cheap smartphones have. Anganwadi employees, mostly women who earn less than $150 a month, if they even have smartphones, experienced repeated crashes of this app or found that they do not understand enough ...
Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 is a legislation, initiated by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India [1] to provide more effective provision for maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens.