MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 16-AUGUST, 2012
Many welfare schemes for women are implemented by Government of India, State
Governments and Union Territory Administrations. The details of major schemes
under implementation by Ministry of Women and Child Development for the welfare
of women are as under:
i. RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL CRECHE
SCHEME FOR THE CHILDREN OF WORKING MOTHERS (RGNCS) provides day care facilities to the children in the age group
0-6 years from families with monthly income of less than 12000/-. In addition
to being a safe space for the children, the crèches provide services such as
supplementary nutrition, pre-school education and emergency health care, etc.
ii. CENTRAL SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD: The main women welfare related schemes and
programmes being implemented by CSWB are family counselling centres, awareness
generation programme and condensed courses of education for women.
iii. NATIONAL MISSION FOR
EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN (NMEW) is an initiative of the
Government of India for empowering women holistically. It is a Centrally
Sponsored Scheme sanctioned in April 2011 and acts as an umbrella Mission with
a mandate to strengthen inter-sectoral convergence.
iv. WORKING WOMEN’S HOSTEL (WWH) Scheme envisages provision of safe and
affordable hostel accommodation to working women, single working women, women
working at places away from their home-towns and for women being trained for
employment.
v. SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND
EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME (STEP)for Women was launched as a Central Sector Scheme during
1986-87. It aims at making a significant impact on women by upgrading skills
for self and wage employment. The target group includes the marginalized
assetless rural women and urban poor.
vi. RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH (RMK) with a corpus of Rs.100 crore extends
micro-finance services to bring about the socio-economic upliftment of poor women.
vii. INDIRA GANDHI MATRITVA
SAHYOG YOJANA (IGMSY) is a Conditional Cash
Transfer scheme for pregnant and lactating (P&L) women introduced in the
October 2010 to contribute to better enabling environment by providing cash
incentives for improved health and nutrition to pregnant and nursing mothers.
viii. SWADHAR SCHEME: The Ministry of Women and Child Development
had been administering Swadhar scheme since 2001 for Women in difficult
circumstances. Under the Scheme, temporary accommodation, maintenance and
rehabilitative services are provided to women and girls rendered homeless due
to family discord, crime, violence, mental stress, social ostracism. Another
scheme with similar objectives/target groups namely Short Stay Home (SSH) is
being implemented by Central Social Welfare Board.
ix. UJJAWALA is a comprehensive scheme for prevention of trafficking and
rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration of victims of trafficking for
commercial sexual exploitation.
This was
stated by Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women and Child Development in a
written reply to the Rajya Sabha today.
SIBAL FOR SEPARATING
REGULATORY SERVICES FUNCTIONS OF DOP
Communications
and IT Minister Kapil Sibal has called for restructuring of 150-year-old
Department of Post by separating its regulatory and services functions to meet
challenges of technological age.
“The
postal department should also restructure itself to meet challenges of 21st
century. The Department of Post (DoP) should look into prospect of bifurcating
the Ministry from the regulator and the operator, just as was done in the
telecom sector,” Sibal told PTI.
He
said that the DoP should explore possibility of having different entities
namely policy making, regulator and service provider.
“No
decision has been taken yet. It is all a matter of debate and dialogue at the
moment,” Sibal said.
DoP,
which has around 5 lakh employees, is responsible for policy making, regulation
and providing postal services, at present.
The
over 100-year old Indian Post Office Act bars any individual or entity from
delivering letters for commercial purpose. The business of private courier
companies is built around delivering documents, parcels and others items which
do not fall under the category of ‘letter’.
Sources
in the Ministry said that Sibal held a meeting with DoP officials early this
week on the issue of finanlisation of the National Postal Policy 2012 and asked
them to prepare roadmap for restructuring as well.
They
said that next meeting on the issue is expected to take place in 15 days.
They
said that the Minister, in June, had asked DoP to set up a body to oversee the
unbundling of its functions.
An
independent body named Postal Development Board (PDB) will be responsible for
the overall development and governance of the postal sector, they added. The
PDB will also draw a road-map for unbundling of postal department functions.
The
Minister had also instructed DoP to constitute a Postal Advisory Board (PAB),
in line with Telecom Commission, which should have representation from
Government, industry players, academics and other stakeholders, they said. The
role of PAB will be to provide inputs to PDB on policy matters.
The
government in 1997 created the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to
regulate the sector. Under New Telecom Policy 1999, Government further
restructured DoT by separating service providing function from it.
Source :
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com
KVS PROPOSES 5 DAYS A WEEK WORK PATTERN FOR KV SCHOOLS
Now, Children studying
in Kendriya Vidyalaya have reasons to rejoice as Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangethan
is deliberating to implement 5 days a week working Schedule for
all KVs situated in India. Incidentally, Kendriya Vidyalayas Situated outside
India such as Iran, Moscow, Katmandu are working only five days a week only.
It is reported that
reason behind the proposal to follow 5 days a week work schedule is to allow Students to “pursue
self-learning” and follow their passion and indulge in non-academic activities.
Five-day week would give “space” to children who, for years, merely get an off
on Sundays besides the second Saturday
of the month. “Keeping them bound to the school routine six days a week is
detrimental to their natural growth of talent in various fields,”
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) ON MODIFIED ASSURED CAREER PROGRESSION SCHEME (MACPS)
Department of Personnel &
Training
Establishment D Section
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Doubts
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Clarification
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Whether the benefits of ACPS would be allowed in respect of
isolated cases due between 01.01.2006 and 31.08.2008 where the pre-revised pay scales of
Rs.5000-8000 & Rs.5500-9000 and Rs.6500-10500 & Rs.7450-11500 have
been merged into single grade pay of Rs.4200 and Rs.4600 respectively w.e.f.
01.01.2006?
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Yes. Since the pre-revised Rs.5000-8000 & Rs.5500-9000 and
Rs.6500-10500 & Rs.7450-11500 (isolated cases) have been merged into
single grade pay of Rs.4200 and Rs.4600 respectively w.e.f. 01.01.2006, the
benefits of 1st and 2nd financial upgradations under the ACPS should be
considered/allowed in the grade pays of Rs.4600 and Rs.4800 in PB-2, as the
case may be, due between 01.01.2006 and 31.08.2008 in respect of isolated
cases in terms of para 5 of Annexure-I of MACPS dated 19.05.2009.
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In a hypothetical situation cadre hierarchy was as follows:
Rs.5000-8000 (revised GP 4200)
Rs.5500-9000 (revised GP 4200)
Rs.6500-10500 (revised GP 4600)
Rs.7450-11500 (revised GP 4600)
Rs.10000-15200 (revised GP 6600)
(i) What would be the 1 st financial upgradation under the ACPS for a
Government employee recruited in pre-revised pay scale of
Rs.5000- 8000, who has completed his 12 years of regular service on
12.04.2007 (between 1.1.2006 and 31.8.2008);(ii) What would be 2nd financial
upgradation for employee recruited in 5000-8000, who has completed 24 years
of regular service on 12.04.2007 (between 1.1.2006 and 31.8.2008)
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In terms of clarification given on point of doubt no.3 issued
vide DOPT’s O.M. No.35034/3/2008-Estt.(D) dated 9.9.2010, the benefits of
ACPS would be applicable in the new pay structure adopted
w.e.f. 1.1.2006 in the promotional hierarchy.
(i): Since the pre-revised pay
scales Rs.5000-8000 &
Rs.5500-9000 have been merged and placed in PB-2 with grade pay of Rs.4200, 1st financial upgradation
would be allowed in the grade pays of Rs.4600, subject to fulfillment of
promotional norms as stipulated in condition no.6 of Annexure-I ACPS dated
9.8.1999, in terms of clarification given on point of doubt no.1 of ACPS
dated 10.02.2000.Since the pre-revised pay
scales Rs.6500- 10500 &
Rs.7450-11500 have been merged and placed in PB-2 with grade pay of Rs.4600,
2nd financial upgradation would be allowed in the grade pay of Rs.6600,
subject to fulfillment of promotional norms (after framing of RRs post
merger) as stipulated in condition no.6 of Annexure-I ACPS dated 9.8.1999, in
terms of clarification given on point of doubt no.1 of ACPS dated 10.02.2000.
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