About Nirbhaya Fund Framework Nirbhaya Fund is a dedicated fund set up by the Government of India in 2013 which can be utilized for projects specifically designed to improve the safety and security of women. It is a non-lapsable corpus …
About ASIIM The Ambedkar Social Innovation and Incubation Mission (ASIIM) was launched in 2020 by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment as a flagship scheme to promote innovation and entrepreneurship skills among youths of Scheduled Castes (SCs). ASIIM has …
About the Act Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 fulfills the obligations to the United National Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), to which India is a signatory and subsequently ratified the same on 1st October, …
About AuditOnline is one of the generic and open source applications developed under e-panchayat Mission Mode Project (MMP) initiated by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR). AuditOnline facilitates the financial audit of accounts at all the three levels of Panchayats …
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) defines fortification as “deliberately increasing the content of essential micronutrients in a food so as to improve the nutritional quality of food and to provide public health benefit with minimal risk …
Children have been recognized by policy makers as one of the supreme national assets. India is home to 472 million children upto the age of 18 years and comprise 39 percent of the country’s population. The objective of Mission Vatsalya …
Fear of sexual abuse is a primary reason for women dropping out of the labour sector, among other considerations such as family duties, cultural standards, restricted possibilities, and a lack of supportive infrastructure (broadly categorising crime against women). The declining …
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) is defined as the number of maternal deaths during a given time per 1,00,000 live births during the same time. A maternal death is “the death of a woman from direct or indirect obstetric causes, more …
Financial empowerment will help bridge gender gap fast. However, globally, 35 per cent of women are estimated to be financially excluded. 0.7% of women in rural areas and 81% in urban areas had deposit accounts in banks. This is an …
While women have played very visible and important roles at the higher echelons of power and at the grassroots level in social movements, they have been under-represented in political parties as officials and as members of key decision-making bodies. In …