Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday asked the officials to go ahead with all the programmes for the welfare of women, children, disabled and senior citizens in the State. He has also directed the Finance Department to release adequate funds as required to complete these welfare programmes launched and being launched by the Department.
The Chief Minister reviewed the issues and programmes of the department of women, children, disabled and senior citizens in detail with the Minister and officials. He has directed the officials to achieve elimination of malnutrition among women and children, protection of child rights, protection of women and welfare of disabled and senior citizens within a time-frame and with clear mile stones. He said that we should have to reduce low weight at birth of children and underweight of children in a big way.
Minister for Women and Child Welfare Sunitha Lakshma Reddy, Woman and Child Welfare Principal Secretary Neelam Sawhney, Principal Secretary (Finance) D Sambasiva Rao and other officials attended the meeting.
The Chief Minister also asked the officials to speed up recruitment to the vacancies in the department like Group I (APPSC) and II supervisors etc. Department officials explained to the Chief Minister various programmes taken up for the welfare of women, children, disabled and senior citizens.
The Chief Minister has also discussed the implementation of various schemes being implemented by the government. They include the “Indiramma Amrutha Hastham” under which “One Full Meal” will be provided to Pregnant and Lactating mothers and children from six months to six years since one of the critical interventions is to address the nutritional needs of Pregnant and Lactating mothers. The other issues that were discussed are improving nutrition levels of children of 0-2 years, programme for Adolescent Girls, Mahila Shishu Chaithanyam, framework for protection of Child Rights and Women and establishment of Old Age Homes. (INN)