Uttarakhand: Chief Secretary Radha Raturi gave instructions to conduct performance audit of women empowerment schemes
Seeking accurate information regarding how many women have benefited from the launch of various women empowerment schemes, Chief Secretary Radha Raturi has directed to conduct a performance audit of all schemes related to women empowerment. CS has directed to remodulate the schemes by improving their quality on the basis of the impact of the schemes on the target group. The Chief Secretary has assigned the responsibility of working on the draft of remodulation of these schemes at the secretary level. Chief Secretary Raturi has instructed to conduct impact assessment of the schemes to ensure maximum benefit of the schemes to the target group.
Chief Secretary Radha Raturi was presiding over the annual meeting of the General Assembly of Uttarakhand Women and Child Development Committee under the Women Empowerment and Child Development Department in the Secretariat today.
Chief Secretary Radha Raturi has directed the Secretary Women Empowerment and Child Development to link all the schemes related to women’s livelihood run by various departments with the Chief Minister Women Sustainable Livelihood Scheme. Along with this, he has given instructions to work on a plan to organize educational tours for meritorious girl students across the country under the Girl Education Promotion.
The Chief Secretary has also given instructions to work on the plan of distribution of sanitary napkins through Anganwadis to encourage hygiene during menstruation among women and girls even in remote areas of the state. He has given instructions to work seriously by making the anemia eradication campaign for women a public campaign.
During the meeting, the Chief Secretary was apprised of the physical and financial progress of Child Welfare Fund, Sanitary Napkin Scheme for adolescent girls, girls and women, Chief Minister Sustainable Livelihood Scheme and Uttarakhand Mahila Integrated Development Scheme from the year 2019 to 2024.
Secretary Shri Chandresh Yadav, Shri Vinay Shankar Pandey, Shri Neeraj Khairwal along with officials of Education, Finance, Health Department were present in the meeting.
