| Anganwadi Services Scheme: |
- Programme for early childhood care and development.
- Beneficiaries: Children in the age group of 0-6 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers
- It provides a package of six services namely supplementary nutrition, pre-school non-formal education, nutrition & health education, immunization, health check-up and referral services.
- Supplementary Nutrition includes Take Home Ration (THR), Hot Cooked Meal and morning snacks
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| Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana: |
- It is a centrally sponsored conditional cash transfer
- Rs.5,000/- is paid in three installments directly to the Bank/Post Office Account of Pregnant Women and Lactating Mother in DBT (Direct Benefit Transfer) Mode upon fulfilling certain conditions
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| National Creche Scheme: |
- It provides day care facilities to children of age group of 6 months to 6 years of working women.
- The facilities are provided for seven and half hours a day for 26 days in a month.
- Children are provided with supplementary nutrition, early childcare education, and health and sleeping facilities.
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| Scheme for Adolescent Girls: |
- It aims at out of school girls in the age group 11-14, to empower and improve their social status through nutrition, life skills and home skills.
- The scheme has nutritional and non nutritional components which include nutrition; iron and folic acid supplementation; health check up and referral service; skill training; life skill education, home management etc,; counselling/ guidance on accessing public services.
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| Child Protection Scheme: |
- It aims to contribute to the improvement and well-being of children in difficult circumstances, as well as, reduction of vulnerabilities to situations and actions that lead to abuse, neglect, exploitation, abandonment and separation of children from parents.
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| POSHAN Abhiyaan: |
- It targets to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anemia and low birth weight babies by reducing mal-nutrition/undernutrition, anemia among young children as also, focus on adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers.
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