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WCD ministry underutilising its schemes, need to use funds: Parliamentary panel
The committee further recommended that the the ministry should chalk out a blue print in coordination with the Ministry of Education to modernise Anganwadis and strengthen them.
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NEW DELHI: Notinbg that the Women and Child Development Ministry is grossly underutilising its schemes and no results were seen at the ground level, a parliamentary standing committee has asked it to use the allocated funds to the fullest extent and strive to achieve results at the grass-root level.
The committee, in its deliberation, noted that a new trend of savings in the Demand for Grants documents of the Ministry, for instance, in 2019-20, Rs 1500 crore were saved in Poshan Abhiyaan scheme, for One Stop Centre scheme, Rs 274 crore were provided and approximately Rs 136 crors i.e., 50 per cent of the fund allocated were saved ; in Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Rs 280 crore w
Aakar Patel | Vital areas in kids’ health left ignored in Budget 2021
Published : Feb 16, 2021, 7:27 am IST
Updated : Feb 16, 2021, 7:27 am IST
Poshan Abhiyan, the flagship programme meant to improve nutritional outcomes by 2022, was also damaged
The mid-day meal scheme, on which crores of children depended for their one good meal of the day, found its budget cut from Rs.13,400 crore in FY 2021 to Rs.11,500 crore in 2022. (LSTV/PTI file Photo)
The Union Budget delivered earlier this month was praised for two things. First, that it was spending money in the right place: capital expenditure, which would create value over the long term. And second, that it was transparent. The deficit is three times what it should be, but at least the government has accepted it. Perhaps these two things are enough to make it a good Budget, though one doesn’t know. There has not really been any Budget I can remember that made any difference to most people’s lives, except perhaps one, a