A BNE EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Insights into the operations of the Department

The Department of Social Welfare, Assam is instrumental in initiating various programmes and schemes for the welfare

of women and children in the state. Under Anganwadi services, the department has covered around 38, 16, 767 nos. of beneficiaries. In Assam total of 19 nos. of Ujjawala shelter is working for rehabilitation, restoration, and self-independent of beneficiaries, 17 SwadharGreh, 6 nos. of Working Women Hostels, and 33 nos of One Stop Centre are all functional. The Department has taken various initiatives to sensitize and empower the people of the state under different schemes related to the women and children sector such as:

• Capacity-building programme
• Sensitization/Awareness programme
• In the era of the women's sector, it provides them with vocational training to enter their mainstream as self-independent and self-reliant. 
• Developing IEC material for disseminating information for mass awareness.

Allocation of funds by the government

• The funds received can be segregated as follows:

Women Sector (UJJAWALA, SwadharGreh, SRCW, Working Women Hostel) =Rs.93934055 Cr. (Central Fund) - (Last 3 yrs)

Under the Supplementary Nutrition Programme of ICDS, the total central share received in the last FY (2020–21) is Rs. 6675955000 Cr.

Under this Programme, the state has provided Take Home Ration (THR), i.e., rice and mixed pulses based energy-dense micronutrients fortified food and hot cooked meal to the beneficiary as stated below:

• 6 months to 3 years old, normal children.
• 3 - 6-year-old children
• 6 months to 6 years Severely underweight children (additional THR).
• Pregnant women & lactating mothers.

POSHAN – The online tracker beneficiaries

The online beneficiaries are tracked through ‘POSHAN Tracker’.

The Age of Transformation

Taking into consideration the need for digitalization, we have already initiated the “Enirikshyan” online portal. Apart from this, there is an online portal named Rapid Reporting System (RRS) of the Ministry of Women & Child Development, Govt. of India. The departmental “dashboard” is functional to access all scheme-related information and benefits.

Message from the Director’s Desk

The main key to the success of any government program or scheme is community participation, so all citizens of the state should come forward for the betterment of the state in the perspective of development.