By joining self help groups established by the Woman and Child Development Department in the villages of the district, awareness and self-reliance of women in this tribal areas of the State has been increased.
According to an official statement, in the year 2011-12, Woman and Child Development Minister lata Usendi had sent 100 members of women self help groups in Kanker district to review and learn from the financial and social activities of women self help groups run by the Odisha Government at Bhubaneshwar and for visiting the Jagannathpuri pilgrimage.
Inspired by the economic and social activities of women self help groups in Bhubaneshwar, the visiting women group got the encouragement to make their own groups more active.
Under the Kishori Shakti Yojana of the State Government, training has been imparted to about 300 girls of the age group of 11 to 18 years every year. Through this schme, training is being imparted to these girls at Aanganbadi level and supervisory sector level on the importance of supplementary nutritious |
food, health and nutrition education, vaccination, health check-up, secured motherhood and safe delivery, personal cleanliness, importance of family welfare programmes, prevention of child marriage, preventing girl foeticide, girl education, prevention from anaemia and supply of iron folic acid tablets and haemoglobin test, discussion on ill-effects of addiction, dowry system and torture of women etc and to prepares them for the rights of equality.
Similarly, through Mahila Jagriti shivirs, efforts were being done to empower the rural women. In this programme local peoples’ representatives are invited and on their guidelines women were being prepared to move forward on the paths of economic, social and political development. The child development department, with the main objective of bringing down malnutrition, has been giving nutritious food to children up to 6 years and pregnant and child-bearing mothers. In which, efforts are being done to empower the village women through joining them in the self help groups.
The Women and Child Development department under its Datakputri, Balika Samridhi, Rajya V Rata Puraskar, Kishori Shakti, Ayushman, Chhattisgarh Mahila Kosh Rin scheme and Mukhyamantri Kanyadaan schemes has given the benefits to its beneficiaries.
Total 1566 people were benefited from the Mukhyamantri Kanyadan scheme in the district during the period from 2005-06 to 2012-13. 1961 Aanganbadi centres, 181 mini Aanganbadi and 25 phulwaris are running in the district.
Under the Datakputri scheme a total of 1,32,740 girls have been given the benefits during the last nine years. Through Aanganbadi centres chart, poster, attendance register, household material register, delivery kit, pre-school kit, chair, table, almirah, medicine etc have been distributed to 8,57,539 beneficiaries during the last nine years.