COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

Rs. 1 lakh, a silver plaque and a citation. The Award were
increased to three from the year 2006 The Awards for the
year 2006 were presented in a function held on 15 th Nov.,
2006 by Shri Janardhan Diwedi, Chairperson, Parliament
Standing Committee). The list of Awardees is enclosed
as Annexure XXIV . XXIV .
National Bravery Award
3.48 This is an award instituted through the Indian
Council for Child Welfare since 1957. The award carries
a prize of Rs. 5000/- each, a medal and a certificate. The
list of awardees for the year 2006 is at Annexure XXV .
Recent initiatives
Parliamentary Forum on Children
3.49 A Parliamentary Forum on Children under the
Chairpersonship of Speaker of Lok Sabha has been
constituted to deal with all issues pertaining to children.
MOS(WCD)I/C is one of the Vice Chairperson of the
forum. She gave a presentation before the Parliamentary
Forum on Children on 22 nd May, 2006 on the ‘Situation of
Girl Child’. Several issues relating to girl child were
discussed during the meeting.
Cultural Exchange Programme
3.50 Under the Cultural Exchange programme with
Government of Mauritius, the Ministry of Women and
Child Development is organising workshops for the
Mauritius delegation. In the series of such workshops a
workshop on ‘Gender Training on Women Empowerment’
and another workshop on “Prevention and Combating
Trafficking in Women and Children for Commercial
Sexual Exploitation: an orientation” were ;organised by
NIPCCD on behalf of the Ministry from 14-23 Feb., 2006
and 18 th to 27 th September, 2006 in New Delhi.
Deputation of a Child Delegation to Mongolia
3.51 A Child Delegation from India attended an
International Seminar Camp “Tracing Nomads Pathways”
organized by International Children’s Center, Nairamdal,
Mongolia from 1 st to 8 th August, 2006. The Deputation to
Mongolia consists of nine children, five from Juvenile
Justice Homes and four from different parts of
country.Composition of child delegation to Mangolia is
at Annexure XXVI .
Working Group on Development of Children
3.52 The Planning Commission for preparing the
Eleventh Plan has constituted a Working Group on
Development of Children under the Chairpersonship of
Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development.
The working group constituted four sub-group as follows.;
Child protection, Girl Child, ICDS and Nutrition, Early
childhood Education. Taking into account
recommendation of sub-groups, the working group report
was prepared and sent to Planning Commission. The
Working Group has recommended among other things a
comprehensive centrally sponsored ‘Integrated Child
Protection Scheme’, expansion of Creche and day care
program, Data systems, a cradle baby or ‘Palna’ scheme
to save girl child, a pilot scheme for Conditional Transfer
for girl child, expansion of NPAG and its merger with
KSY, amendment and implementation of child marriage
law, universalisation of ICDS with quality, strengthening
Infrastructure and service delivery, strengthening nutrition
and health education, strengthening monitoring and
evaluation provision of additional anganwadi workers for
Preschool education component etc.
Offences Against Children Bill
3.53 Child abuse involves several aspects, such as, sexual
exploitation, economic exploitation, domestic violence,
trafficking for prostitution, corporal punishment at school,
and others. The Ministry felt the need to have a dialogue
on the issue. from all quarters and to formulate a consensus,
After few consultations with voluntary organizations and
experts dealing with the subject, it has been decided to
constitute a small group consisting of representative from
Government, NGOs, legal experts and social workers
which will go into all aspects of the subject and legal
provisions available on the subject and formulate a draft
legislation to address all issues pertaining to child abuse.
After wide consultations, a draft Bill for Offences Against
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