Question

write a speech to be delivered requesting everyone ti commit themselves to the welfare of women and children

Answer 1

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Women and Child Welfare Schemes in India!

Women constitute 48 per cent of the total population of the country. They suffer many disadvantages as compared to men in literary rates, labour participation rates and earnings. The development of women has been receiving attention of the Government of India from the First Plan. But it was treated as a subject of ‘welfare’ and clubbed together with the welfare of the disadvantaged groups like destitute, disabled, aged, etc. In 1953, the Central Social Welfare Board was set up which acts as an Apex Body at the Centre to promote voluntary action at various levels, especially at the grassroots, to take up welfare-related activities for women and children.

The Second to Fifth Plans continued this strategy, besides giving priority to women’s education, and launching measures to improve material and child health services, supplementary feeding for children and expectant and nursing mothers.

In the Sixth Plan, there was a shift in the approach from ‘welfare’ to ‘development’ of women. The Sixth Plan adopted a multi-disciplinary approach with special emphasis on the three core sectors of health, education and employment.

The Seventh Plan stressed on raising their economic and social status and bringing them into the mainstream of national development. One of the significant step in this direction was to identify/promote the ‘Beneficiary Oriented Schemes’ in various developmental sector which extended direct benefits to women.

The strategy also included the generation of both skilled and unskilled employment through proper education and vocational training. The Eighth Plan ensured that the benefits of development to women should flow from other development sectors and enable women to function as equal partners and participants in the development process.

The Ninth Plan made two important changes in the strategy of development of women. The first was the ‘Empowerment of Women’. Its aim was to create an enabling environment where women could freely exercise their rights both within and outside home, and are equal partners along with men.

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