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States to take over funding of rural family welfare centres
Government has identified a series of measures including asking states to take over funding of rural family welfare centres from the current year as part of efforts to improve coverage under immunisation, child health and contraceptive care.
Government has identified a series of measures including asking states to take over funding of rural family welfare centres from the current year as part of efforts to improve coverage under immunisation, child health and contraceptive care.
From the current year department of family welfare will fund salaries of 1.4 lakh auxiliary nursing midwives. The states will take over the funding of rural family welfare centres which have been functioning as a part of primary health centres, deputy chairman Planning Commission K C Pant said in New Delhi on Saturday.
Speaking at a workshop on gender budgeting, Pant said it was expected that these measures will ensure improved coverage under immunisation, antenatal, child health as well as contraceptive care and enable the country to reach goals set for reduction in infant and maternal mortality as well as population growth.
Pant also said that the National Development Council will review at its meetings all programmes and targets on the basis of gender disaggregated data to be compiled by the Planning Commission to ensure flow of adequate funds for programmes undertaken for women in various sectors. Stating that 'gender budgeting' was a relatively new concept, Pant said a meaningful gender budgeting exercise can happen only when our official accounting methods capture the gender dimensions of our expenditure patterns.
In this context, pant said It should le a mandatory part of functions of civil servants to identify and record the gender of the beneficiaries from any programme. This, he said would be extremely valuable in redesigning the guidelines and modalities of programmes to make them gender sensitive.
Bureau Report
Speaking at a workshop on gender budgeting, Pant said it was expected that these measures will ensure improved coverage under immunisation, antenatal, child health as well as contraceptive care and enable the country to reach goals set for reduction in infant and maternal mortality as well as population growth.
Pant also said that the National Development Council will review at its meetings all programmes and targets on the basis of gender disaggregated data to be compiled by the Planning Commission to ensure flow of adequate funds for programmes undertaken for women in various sectors. Stating that 'gender budgeting' was a relatively new concept, Pant said a meaningful gender budgeting exercise can happen only when our official accounting methods capture the gender dimensions of our expenditure patterns.
In this context, pant said It should le a mandatory part of functions of civil servants to identify and record the gender of the beneficiaries from any programme. This, he said would be extremely valuable in redesigning the guidelines and modalities of programmes to make them gender sensitive.
Bureau Report