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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
Nirbhaya Fund could help improve women’s safety – but money allotted for schemes is underutilised
The government’s current spending on specific interventions that address violence against women is not even 25% of the actual requirement. Representational image. | Amit Dave/Reuters
Since its inception in 2013, the Nirbhaya Fund, set up to finance projects to improve the safety and security of women, has seen significant underutilisation and slow operationalisation of approved projects.
The government’s current spending on women-specific interventions that address violence against women is not even 25% of the actual requirement, according to a recent report by Oxfam India. Up to 90% of the current spending is accounted for by the Nirbhaya Fund itself.