The State Government in the last one year took important decisions for women and especially for children to strengthen education, health and nutrition system. Also, innovations were given priority. New Child Protection Policy was formulated. Rules for Juvenile Justice of the State were enacted and brought into effect.
As many as 11 new institutions under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme were approved. The supply of soybean to the families of very low and underweight children was started under Atal Child Health and Nutrition Mission.
Slippers were provided to children between 3-6 years of age. To prevent child beggary, ‘Khushal Naunihal’ campaign was started from Bhopal division. A grievance redressal mechanism was implemented on WhatsApp number 8305101188 for smooth functioning of Anganwadi services and ensure quality there.
The State Government has started to develop one Anganwadi Kendra of each development block as a Bal Shiksha Kendra. In the first phase, in 313 Anganwadi centres Bal Shiksha Kendra have been started. Preparations are being made to impart pre-primary education to children of up to 6 years of age in these centres.
Regulatory guidelines related to care and education of children in early childhood is being prepared. Through them, the pre-primary institutions being operated for proper development of children up to 6 years in Government and private sectors will be regulated, monitored and evaluated. Pre-school education policy and regulatory guidelines are also being made at the State level.
To make the inspection of Anganwadi center more effective, ‘Sampark app’ has been implemented. In this, information about inspection visits to Anganwadi centers is recorded online.
The recorded information is available on the dashboard at various levels from departmental login from project, district, division and State. Also, with GIS tagging technology, a map of the visits of Anganwadi centers and allied institutions can be seen at every login level. At present, monitoring of more than 97 thousand Anganwadi centers is being ensured regularly from 10 divisional, 52 districts, 453 project offices.
Poshan Sakhi scheme has been implemented with the aim of reducing malnutrition through nutrition and health education counseling.
Under the scheme, adolescent girls from 15 to 18 years of age or self-motivated adolescent girls or educated daughters-in-law in villages, who are future mothers, will be trained in 4 phases during 8 months. Two Poshan Sakhis per centre will be trained from 19,774 Anganwadi centers of 78 projects in selected 10 districts.
This year, it has been decided to give benefit of Ladli Laxmi Yojana to girl child who is a rape victim or girl child born of a rape victim. The project officer will ensure the scheme benefit by registering the girl child after obtaining the application from the concerned rape victim girl / woman and obtaining approval from the competent level. Total 1.15 lakh girls who have been admitted in Class 6 and about 17 thousand 841 girls who have taken admission in Class 9, were given a scholarship of about Rs 30 crore under the Ladli Laxmi Yojana, in this financial year. An amount of Rs 1,586.58 crore was deposited in the fund of the scheme.