Lok Sabha Question No. 884 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-07
Subject: Shelter Homes
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UN-STARRED QUESTION NO.884 TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2025

## SHELTER HOMES

## †884. SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

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

- (a)        the number of shelter homes set up for mentally challenged destitute children by the  Government  along  with  the  average  number  of  children  that  can  be accommodated in the said shelter homes, State/UT-wise;
- (b)       the details of medical facilities being provided to them in order to improve their health condition in the said shelter homes;
- (c)       whether the Government proposes to establish more such shelter homes in the country in near future; and
- (d)       if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  the  action  taken  in  this  regard  in  the  State  of Rajasthan?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SAVITRI THAKUR)

(a)  to  (d):  The  Ministry  of  Women  and  Child  Development  is  implementing  Mission Vatsalya  Scheme  through  the  States/  UTs  for  care,  protection,  rehabilitation  and reintegration of children in difficult circumstances.  Financial assistance is provided for Institutional and Non-institutional care services, institutional care includes support for Child  Care  Institutions  (CCIs).   The  CCIs  established  under  the  scheme, inter-alia, provide for boarding & lodging, age-appropriate education, access to vocational training, recreation, health care, counselling etc. The Homes are provided support according to the local needs and requirement of States/UTs. Mission Vatsalya Scheme provides for Special Unit for Children with Special Needs in the CCIs.

As  per  Mission  Vatsalya  Guidelines,  a  CCI  having  capacity  of  50  children  can  have Special Unit for 10 children with special needs. Similarly, a CCI having the capacity of 25 children can have Special Unit for 5 children.

The guidelines also provide for Special Educators/ therapist and Nurse required for such children in CCIs. The Scheme also provides the institutions, inter-alia , with specialized equipment and materials like Psychological test materials, training materials for speech and language, teaching materials, wheel chairs.

State-wise  number  of  CCIs  with  Special  Need  Children  under  Mission  Vatsalya including Rajasthan, as on 31.03.2024, is at Annexure.

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ANNEXURE ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTs (a) TO (d) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED  QUESTION  NO.884  FOR  ANSWER  ON  07.02.2025  BY  SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI REGARDING SHELTER HOMES

STATE-WISE  NUMBER  OF  CHILD  CARE  INSTITUTIONS  WITH  SPECIAL  NEED CHILDREN  SUPPORTED  UNDER  MISSION  VATSALYA  SCHEME  (AS  ON 31.03.2024)

| S. No.   | State                                |   Number of CCIs |   Number of CCIs with Special need children |
|----------|--------------------------------------|------------------|---------------------------------------------|
| 1        | Andhra Pradesh                       |               98 |                                           5 |
| 2        | Arunachal Pradesh                    |               11 |                                           0 |
| 3        | Assam                                |               60 |                                           6 |
| 4        | Bihar                                |               89 |                                          19 |
| 5        | Chhattisgarh                         |               85 |                                          12 |
| 6        | Goa                                  |               25 |                                           0 |
| 7        | Gujarat                              |               76 |                                           0 |
| 8        | Haryana                              |               31 |                                           1 |
| 9        | Himachal Pradesh                     |               31 |                                           2 |
| 10       | Jammu and Kashmir                    |               55 |                                           2 |
| 11       | Jharkhand                            |               49 |                                           5 |
| 12       | Karnataka                            |              154 |                                           5 |
| 13       | Kerala                               |               45 |                                           1 |
| 14       | Madhya Pradesh                       |              101 |                                           4 |
| 15       | Maharashtra                          |              107 |                                           0 |
| 16       | Manipur                              |               86 |                                           9 |
| 17       | Meghalaya                            |               54 |                                           2 |
| 18       | Mizoram                              |               60 |                                          16 |
| 19       | Nagaland                             |               44 |                                           3 |
| 20       | Orissa                               |              135 |                                           0 |
| 21       | Punjab                               |               27 |                                           6 |
| 22       | Rajasthan                            |              141 |                                          16 |
| 23       | Sikkim                               |               23 |                                           2 |
| 24       | Tamil Nadu                           |              320 |                                          10 |
| 25       | Tripura                              |               31 |                                           2 |
| 26       | Uttar Pradesh                        |              108 |                                          20 |
| 27       | Uttarakhand                          |               36 |                                           8 |
| 28       | West Bengal                          |              207 |                                          40 |
| 29       | Telangana                            |               63 |                                           0 |
| 30       | Andaman & Nicobar                    |               10 |                                           0 |
| 31       | Chandigarh                           |                9 |                                           0 |
| 32       | Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu |                4 |                                           0 |
| 33       | Ladakh                               |                7 |                                           0 |
| 34       | Lakshadweep                          |                0 |                                           0 |
| 35       | Delhi                                |               39 |                                           0 |
| 36       | Puducherry                           |               29 |                                           3 |
|          | Total                                |             2450 |                                         199 |

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