ORIENTED SCHEMES
Recently the Chief Secretary chaired a meeting of the Social Welfare Department to review the impact and reach of several beneficiary oriented schemes being run by the department across Jammu and Kashmir.
He took stock of the achievements and ongoing initiatives aimed at bolstering child development, nutrition and welfare of marginal sections of the society. He had a specific review of schemes tailored for empowerment of specially-abled, widows, old-aged persons and reserved categories of the society.
He took appraisal of the efficiency of the legal framework aimed at ensuring social justice, protection and welfare of vulnerable groups. These included Juvenile Justice Act, 2015, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, Transgender Persons Act, 2019 and other crucial acts like POCSO (2012), Child Marriage Prohibition Act (2006) and SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act (1989), etc.
He impressed upon the department to enhance the capacity of the staff to impart quality education to the children enrolled in Anganwadi Centers as envisaged under NEP-2020. He also enjoined upon them to extend different pre/post-matric scholarships to the students of marginalized communities to give them access to modern education thereby empowering the communities in the real sense.
He asked the concerned department to monitor the growth indicators of both the young children and adolescent girls in all the AWCs. He directed them to make special intervention to provide them supplementary nutrition on the recommendations of medical practitioners.
