Lok Sabha Question No. 898 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-14
Subject: Monitoring of Organisations Engaged in Welfare of Women and Children
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: GAJANAN CHANDRAKANT KIRTIKAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 898

TO BE ANSWERED ON 14.12.2018

## MONITORING OF ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN WELFARE OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN

## +898. SHRI GAJANAN KIRTIKAR:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has set up any mechanism to monitor the functioning of various nodal agencies, commissions, boards, corporations and the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) engaged in welfare of women and children;
- (b) If so, the details thereof;
- (c) if not, the details of the steps taken by the Government in this regard; and
- (d) the details of criteria based on which performance of these bodies is being monitored?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (DR. VIRENDRA KUMAR):

- (a): The  Ministry  of  Women  &  Child  Development  has  set  up  various  mechanisms  to  monitor  the  functioning  of  its  nodal agencies, commissions, boards, corporations and NGOs engaged in welfare of women and children.
- (b) to (d): The details are given hereunder:
-  The monitoring of NGOs is done at three (Central, State and District) levels in schemes like Swadhar and Ujjawala.
-  The  Anganwadi  Services  [Umbrella  Integrated  Child  Development  Services  (ICDS)  Scheme]  has  an  in-built  monitoring system since  its  inception  to  track  the  physical  progress  of  the  scheme  in  respect  of  various  input  process,  output  and impact  indicators  through  a  standardized  Management  Information  System  (MIS),  regular  reports,  monthly,  half  yearly, quarterly etc. MWCD is continuously monitoring the implementation of Anganwadi Services Scheme. The guidelines include a schedule of visits of different officials at the state level to AWCs/mini-AWCs in improving the quality of service delivery of the AWCs by addressing various problems/ bottlenecks and also to elicit views and perspectives from the community. Govt. has introduced a 5-tier monitoring & review mechanisms at 5 different levels (National, State, District, Block and Anganwadi) to strengthen the performance of Anganwadi Service Scheme.
-  National  Institute  of  Public  Cooperation  and  Child  Development  (NIPCCD)  is  monitored  through  regular  Executive Committee meetings which are attended by senior officials of MWCD and the performance is monitored through Statement of Expenditure, Annual Reports and Quarterly/ Monthly Progress Reports.
-  Rahstriya  Mahila  Kosh  has  established  a  multi-level  monitoring  mechanism  for  effective  implementation  of  its  schemes through  NGOs  and  to  check  funds  utilization  like  pre  sanction  study,  critical  appraisal  of  project  and  sanction  by  duly constitute  loan  committee,  disbursement  only  through  Bank  Account  of  IMO/NGOs,  post  sanction  visit,  submission  of regular  financial  reports,  regular  follow-up  of  each  loan  for  recovery,  Blacklisting  of  NGOs/IMOs  in  case  of  default,  and remedial legal action against willful defaulters.
-  Regular monitoring and reviewing of the implementation of One Stop Centres and Women Help Line through Workshops/Conferences with State Govts./ UT Administrations and surprise inspection visits is done by the officers of the Ministry.
-  National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is headed by a Chairperson and consists of 6 Members. The Annual Report of the Commission is laid on the Table of both the Houses. Review of functioning is also done from time to time.

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