37.85% Increase in ICDS Beneficiaries from 10th to 11th Five Y...

Rs 17,700 crore to be allocated for Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS): FM. National Food security bill is a promise of the UPA government. I hope the bill be passed as soon as possible. I have set apart Rs 10,000 crore to the expected cost of the ...

Srinagar, Apr 5: Concerned over hotchpotch implementation and monitoring of centrally sponsored scheme--Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS)--Jammu and Kashmir Government on Friday decided to set up State Mission Steering Group (SMSG) and State ...

Chandigarh, May 1 : Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today assured supervisors of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) and employees of Ministerial Staff of various departments that all their genuine demands would be considered.

The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) has written to some hospitals in the city to withhold their programmes for training the staff to work in Collaborative Child Response Units (CCRUs). The move may severely affect child victims of ...

TEAM HERALD teamherald@herald-goa.com PANJIM: The government is contemplating of constituting a State Level Child Protection Society under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme to protect children's rights, Secretary Women and Child Development P ...

The Delhi Police last week told the Delhi High Court that they have arrested a guard of a government-run children's home in Alipur for allegedly sodomising a seven-year-old HIV positive boy. The court had ordered a suo motu enquiry into the incident ...

Indonesia's Early Childhood Education and Development Program A teacher with her students at an ECED center. Ed Wray / World Bank The World Bank-financed Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Project, launched in 2007, increases access to ...

A door-to-door survey by World Vision, a global development and advocacy organisation, in 26 urban slums of Coimbatore has revealed that nearly half the children in these localities suffer from some form of malnutrition. The findings (see box) were ...

The government has adopted a multi-pronged approach to prevent and combat trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation. Minister of State for Women and Child Development, Mrs Krishna Tirath said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha ...