Lok Sabha Question No. 1039 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-12-05
Subject: Fund Allocation under Women Empowerment Schemes
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Smt. Roopkumari Choudhary

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.1039

TO BE ANSWERED ON 05.12.2025

## FUND ALLOCATION UNDER WOMEN EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES

+1039. SMT. ROOPKUMARI CHOUDHARY:

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

(a) the details of the allocation of funds by the Ministry under the schemes like Poshan-3.0, OneStop Centre, Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao, Shishu Suraksha Karyakram, Anganwadi Modernization/Saksham Mahila-Sashakt Bharat alongwith the expenditure/progress report during the financial year 2024-25, State-wise;

(b) the details of any new/improved schemes under consideration proposed to be launched in near future, especially in the areas of nutrition, security and women entrepreneurship;

(c) the details of the special projects being implemented by the Government for improving the nutrition level, Anganwadi modernization/safety of women in tribal dominated Chhattisgarh; and

(d) whether there is any proposal to provide additional assistance/special package to the State, if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

(a) to (d) Various schemes implemented for welfare of women and children all over the country, including in Chhattisgarh, have been clubbed into three Umbrella Missions by the Ministry of Women & Child Development (MoWCD), viz. (1) Mission Saksham Anganwadi & Poshan 2.0 for  improving  nutrition  &  health  indicators  (2)  Mission  Shakti,  for  safety,  protection  and empowerment of women; and (3) Mission Vatsalya, for protection, care and welfare of children in difficult circumstances. Details of the schemes are as under:

(i) Saksham Anganwadi & Poshan 2.0 (Mission Poshan 2.0): Under this mission, Anganwadi Services Scheme, POSHAN Abhiyaan and Scheme for Adolescent Girls have been reorganized into 3 primary sub-verticals: (i) Nutrition Support for Children, Pregnant Women & Lactating Mothers and for Adolescent Girls (ii) Early Childhood Care and Education and (iii) Anganwadi Infrastructure including upgraded Saksham Anganwadis.

(ii) Mission Shakti: It comprises of two verticals 'Sambal' and 'Samarthya' for safety, security and empowerment of women, respectively.

I.  Sambal The  following  schemes have been included under the Sambal vertical: One Stop Centres (OSC) - for providing integrated support and assistance to women affected by violence and those in distress, both in private and public spaces in a convergent and coordinated manner under  one  roof ;  Women  Helplines  (181-WHL) is  a  24  x  7  x  365  toll-free  emergency/nonemergency response system that is integrated with ERSS (112) and other existing helplines/institutions; Beti  Bachao  Beti  Padhao  (BBBP) -  launched  with  an  aim  to  address declining Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) and related issues of empowerment of girls and women over a life cycle continuum; Nari Adalat -a pilot initiative aimed at empowering women by ensuring justice and to offer services such as alternate dispute resolution, grievance redressal, counselling, evidence-based decision-making, pressure group tactics, negotiation, mediation, and reconciliation.

II. Samarthya The following schemes have been included under 'Samarthya' vertical: Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) - a Centrally Sponsored Maternity Benefit Scheme under which cash incentives flow to the beneficiaries in Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) mode for the first child and the second girl child; Ujjwala and Swadhar Greh (renamed as Shakti Sadan) -  an  Integrated  Relief  and  Rehabilitation  Home  for  women  in  distress  situations  including trafficked women; Working Women Hostel (renamed as Sakhi Niwas) - to promote availability of safe and conveniently located accommodation for working women in urban, semi-urban and also  in  rural  areas  where  employment  opportunities  for  women  exist; National  Hub  for Empowerment of Women (NHEW) -  to  facilitate  intersectoral  convergence  of  schemes  and programs meant  for  women at National level,  State/  UT  level  and  district  level  and National Creche Scheme (renamed as Palna) that aims to increase the participation of women in work force  in  the  economy  by  providing  quality  crèche  facility  in  safe  and  secure  environment  for children.

(iii) Mission Vatsalya: Mission Vatsalya includes the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) for  better  outreach  and  protection  for  children  in  need  and  care  in  a  mission  mode  with  the objective to: (i) Support and sustain Children in difficult circumstances. (ii) Develop context-based solutions  for  holistic  development  of  children  from  varied  backgrounds.  (iii)Provide  scope  for encouraging innovative solutions, (iv) Cement convergent action.

The State-wise details of grants released under the aforementioned schemes of the Ministry during the financial year 2024-25 are at Annexure .

Hon'ble  PM  launched  PM -JANMAN (Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi  Nyaya Maha Abhiyan) which aims to develop 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) residing in 18 States and a UT. This Mission focuses on 11 critical interventions related to 9 key Ministries, including the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Under the scheme, a total of 2,500 Anganwadi Centres (AWCs) has been sanctioned ( including 191 AWCs to Chhattisgarh ) to 17 States for construction of AWCs wherein the population criteria is relaxed to 100 persons in a habitation.

The Dharti Abha Janjati Gram Unnat Abhiyan aims at improving the socio-economic condition of tribal communities by adopting saturation coverage of tribal families in tribal majority areas and aspirational block ST villages. The mission focuses on convergence, outreach and saturation in approximately 63,843 villages on the basis of following criteria:

- Tribal-majority villages with populations of 500 or more, where at least 50% are tribal.
- Villages, in Aspirational districts, with at least 50 tribal population.

Under the scheme, Ministry's intervention is establishment of 2000 new Saksham AWCs and upgradation of 6000 AWCs to Saksham AWCs. A total of 875 AWCs have been sanctioned for construction.

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Annexure

## Statement referred to in reply to Parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1039 to be answered on 05.12.2025

## State-wise details of grants released under the schemes of the Ministry during the Financial Year 2024-25

(Rs. in crores)

| Sl. No .   | State/UT                        |   Mission Sak sham Anga nwadi &Po shan 2.0 |   Missi on Va tsalya |   One Stop Cent re |   Wom en He lpline |   Beti Ba chao B eti Pad hao | Sha kti Sad an   |   Sak hi N iwa s | PradhanM antri Matr u Vandana Yojana   | P al na   |   NationalH ub for Emp owerment o f women |
|------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|----------------------|--------------------|--------------------|------------------------------|------------------|------------------|----------------------------------------|-----------|-------------------------------------------|
| 1.         | Andaman &Nicobar I slands       |                                       9.63 |                 3.13 |               0    |               0.55 |                         0    | 0                |             0    | 0.33                                   | 0         |                                     0     |
| 2.         | Andhra Pra desh                 |                                     645.73 |                44.03 |               1.89 |               0    |                         3.65 | 0                |             0    | 44.96                                  | 0         |                                     0     |
| 3.         | Arunachal Pradesh               |                                     102.61 |                 5.32 |               7.57 |               0.28 |                         0    | 0                |             1.47 | 1.98                                   | 0. 87     |                                     0     |
| 4.         | Assam                           |                                    2482.34 |                31.39 |               2.83 |               0.41 |                         4.85 | 11.7 2           |             0.55 | 77.07                                  | 0         |                                     1.21  |
| 5.         | Bihar                           |                                    2262.92 |                53.35 |               0    |               0.38 |                         3.23 | 3.03             |             0.9  | 141.53                                 | 0. 00 2   |                                     3.13  |
| 6.         | Chandigarh                      |                                      14.56 |                 7.59 |               0.19 |               0.28 |                         0.15 | 0.11             |             0    | NIL                                    | 4. 24     |                                     0     |
| 7.         | Chhattisgar h                   |                                     733.3  |                39.1  |               9.46 |               0.27 |                         0    | 0.34             |             0.05 | 68.72                                  | 0. 07     |                                     0.36  |
| 8.         | Dadra&N agar Haveli &Daman &Diu |                                       9.13 |                 9.91 |               0.57 |               0.28 |                         0.58 | 0                |             0    | 2.44                                   | 0. 65     |                                     0.75  |
| 9.         | Goa                             |                                      13.44 |                 5.14 |               0.55 |               0.28 |                         0    | 0                |             0    | 1.86                                   | 0         |                                     0     |
|            | 10.Gujarat                      |                                     601.32 |                19.5  |               8.57 |               0.38 |                         0    | 0                |             0    | 72.48                                  | 0         |                                     0.95  |
|            | 11.Haryana                      |                                     232.69 |                 6.4  |               4.19 |               0.28 |                         0    | 0                |             0    | 33.3                                   | 1. 00     |                                     0.002 |
| 12.        | Himachal P radesh               |                                     313.07 |                37.68 |               0.47 |               0.28 |                         0    | 0.47             |             0.05 | 26.85                                  | 2. 67     |                                     1.19  |
| 13.        | Jammu& Kashmir                  |                                     662.79 |                44.75 |               4.71 |               0    |                         3.05 | 2.36             |             0.37 | 41.9                                   | 3. 23     |                                     3.17  |
|            | 14.Jharkhand                    |                                     496.95 |                18.73 |               0    |               0.14 |                         0    | 0.05             |             0    | 39.31                                  | 0         |                                     0.01  |
|            | 15.Karnataka                    |                                     886.85 |                86.48 |               9.22 |               0.17 |                         0    | 1.21             |             0    | 159.96                                 | 0. 56     |                                     3.82  |

| 16.Kerala           |   435.74 | 12.03   |   4.00 |      |   0.28 | 1.65   |   4.20 1.02 | NIL    | 0     | 0.00   |
|---------------------|----------|---------|--------|------|--------|--------|-------------|--------|-------|--------|
| 17.Ladakh           |    18.89 | 3.81    |   0.38 | 0.14 |   0.2  | 0      |        0    | 0.62 0 |       | 0.59   |
| 18. Lakshadwe ep    |     1.35 | 0.00    |   0    | 0    |   0    | 0      |        0    | 0.27   | 0     | 0      |
| 19. Madhya Pr adesh |  1144.54 | 117.2 4 |  22.26 | 0.57 |   0    | 0      |        0    | 257 0  | 0     |        |
| 20. Maharashtr a    |  1368.84 | 144.9 7 |   0    | 0.38 |   2.65 | 10.1 7 |        0.26 | 141.17 | 0     | 0      |
| 21.Manipur          |   342.87 | 68.15   |   3.05 | 0.28 |   2.15 | 19.9 4 |        0.82 | NIL    | 0     | 0      |
| 22.Meghalaya        |   137.93 | 22.30   |   2.29 | 0.32 |   2.63 | 0.90   |        0    | 3.45   | 0     | 0.68   |
| 23.Mizoram          |    55.29 | 37.06   |   5.63 | 0.41 |   1.4  | 0      |        0.5  | 2.55   | 5. 92 | 3.18   |
| 24.Nagaland         |   147.01 | 33.92   |   6.48 | 0.69 |   5.3  | 3.28   |        0.28 | 4.18   | 2. 02 | 4.33   |
| 25. NCT of De lhi   |   160.41 | 7.62    |   3.14 | 0.41 |   0    | 0.18   |        0.03 | 20.08  | 0     | 1.98   |
| 26.Odisha           |   948.16 | 68.83   |   8.19 | 0.28 |   0    | 4.90   |        0.25 | 43.48  | 0     | 0      |
| 27.Puducherry       |     3.68 | 4.17    |   0    | 0    |   0    | 0      |        0    | 1.76   | 0     | 0.54   |
| 28.Punjab           |   265.48 | 14.76   |   4.38 | 0    |   0    | 0.02   |        0    | 32.03  | 1. 62 | 0.001  |
| 29.Rajasthan        |   741.85 | 74.98   |   7.52 | 0.57 |   0    | 0.10   |        0    | 98.17  | 0     | 0      |
| 30.Sikkim           |    18.07 | 16.21   |   1.14 | 0.41 |   0    | 0.16   |        0.12 | NIL    | 0     | 1.06   |
| 31. Tamil Nad u     |   638.47 | 122.8 2 |  10.6  | 0.02 |   0    | 11.5 4 |        1.08 | 95.62  | 5. 88 | 0.11   |
| 32.Telangana        |   430.76 | 36.97   |   2.56 | 0    |   0    | 2.30   |        0    | 0*     | 9. 80 | 0.54   |
| 33.Tripura          |   153.41 | 19.23   |   0    | 0    |   0    | 0.17   |        0    | 5.42   | 6. 63 | 1.37   |
| 34. Uttar Prade sh  |  2694.62 | 92.05   |  18.01 | 0.76 |   0    | 7.84   |        0.4  | NIL    | 0     | 7.80   |
| 35. Uttarakhan d    |   216.33 | 14.49   |   0.54 | 0.1  |   0    | 0      |        0    | 26.41  | 0. 01 | 0.58   |
| 36. West Beng al    |  1513.8  | 70.18   |   6.42 | 0    |   0    | 0      |        0    | NIL    | 0     | 0      |

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