The government has established a comprehensive legal, institutional and policy framework for the prevention of acid attacks, punishment of offenders, protection of survivors, and their rehabilitation, implemented in coordination with States and Union Territories, Union Minister for Women and Child Development Annpurna Devi informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply on Wednesday.
Addressing a conclave on nutrition here, he said eliminating malnutrition is essential for building a ‘Viksit Bharat’ and securing the country’s long-term social and economic future.
"The helpline number 181 began receiving calls at the Control Room from 4:58 pm on July 3. By 2 pm today, the helpline had received a total of 1,024 calls," the Delhi government said in a statement on Thursday.
Irani said that the state government could not spend a massive amount of Rs 27,000 lakhs or Rs 270 crore allocated just from her ministry.
The gender-poverty gap will worsen further still in South Asia, Central and Southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa ~ “home to 87 per cent of the world’s extreme poor”.
Widening the ambit of the state government’s flagship programme Kanyashree, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday lifted the annual family…
Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has been caught on camera hurling abuse at an official who is…
Anganwadi workers in Punjab called off their statewide agitation on Sunday following Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s intervention and the government’s…
