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Raipur, 2 July (HS). Women and Child Development Minister Smt. Laxmi Rajwade today reviewed the works of the Women and Child Development Department in detail at the Ministry Mahanadi Bhawan. Smt. Rajwade directed the officials to conduct regular surprise inspections of each Anganwadi. She also directed to ensure the quality of the nutrition-diet and other facilities being given to the beneficiaries by regularly checking them. During the meeting, departmental officials gave information about departmental programs and schemes through power point presentation. Department Secretary Smt. Shammi Abidi, Director Ms. Tulika Prajapati and other departmental officials were also present in the meeting.
While giving instructions to make integrated child development services available effectively at the ground level, Women and Child Development Minister Smt. Laxmi Rajwade said that ensure that women of the area are provided benefits in a planned manner from other welfare schemes of the government. In this direction, effective initiatives should be taken for creating public awareness and expanding the quality and coverage of services to make the services result-oriented.
The minister directed the officials that all the beneficiaries should get the benefits of Mahtari Vandan Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana, Ready-to-Eat, Noni Suraksha Yojana, Shuchita Yojana, Bal Sandarbh Yojana of the Women and Child Development Department. He directed to link the bank accounts of all the eligible beneficiaries of Mahtari Vandan Yojana with Aadhar Card. He asked to get the health check-up, vaccination and weighing of pregnant women, lactating mothers, children and adolescent girls done at regular intervals. He also directed to discharge the responsibilities with sensitivity to make pre-school elementary education, supplementary nutrition diet and nutrition and health education result oriented.
Mrs. Rajwada said that transparency should be maintained so that the right beneficiary gets the benefit under Mukhyamantri Kanya Vivah Yojana. Officers should receive the application and verify it so that the real person gets the benefit.
Instructions to prepare roster for admission of malnourished children – Minister of Women and Child Development asked to regularly admit malnourished children as per 100% beds for treatment in Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres. For this, she gave instructions to prepare a roster of malnourished children for admission every 15 days and benefit them. She asked to prove the significance of the scheme's objective by benefiting poor needy women under Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana. Under Mission Vatsalya, she gave instructions to present an action plan for providing education to children living in child care institutions through regular school or open school and to give them skill development training.
In the meeting, Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao along with recruitment to vacant posts of Anganwadi worker and Anganwadi assistant, approval for construction of Anganwadi Centre building, operational and ongoing buildings were also reviewed.