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	    <h2 class="h2-responsive text-center p-3 text-dark">About us</h2>
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	                <h3 class="text-center p-2 h3-responsive"><strong>What do we do?</strong></h3>
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	                    The Department of Women and Child Development was set up in the year 1985 as a part of the Ministry
	                    of Human Resource Development to address the needs of the women and children in the nation. In 2006
	                    it was upgraded from a Department to a Ministry of Women and Child Development.
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	                    The mandate of the Ministry is the holistic development of Women and Children. It has the authority
	                    to make plans, policies and programmes, enacts/ amends legislation with regard to the target group.
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	                    <h3 class="h3-responsive text-center p-2">Vision & Mission</h3>
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	                        <li>Vision</li>
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	                        Empowered women living with dignity and contributing as equal partners in development in an
	                        environment free from violence and discrimination.
	                        And, wellnurtured children with full opportunities for growth and development in a safe and
	                        protective environment.
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	                        <li>Mission</li>
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	                        Promoting social and economic empowerment of women through cross-cuting policies and programmes,
	                        mainstreaming gender concerns, creating awareness about their rights and facilitating
	                        institutional and legislative support for enabling them realize their human rights and develop
	                        to their full potential.
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	                    <h3 class="h3-responsive text-center p-2">Mandate</h3>
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	                        The broad mandate of the Ministry is to have holistic development of Women and Children. As a
	                        nodal Ministry for the advancement of women and children, the Ministry formulates plans,
	                        policies and programmes; enacts/ amends legislation, guides and coordinates the efforts of both
	                        governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the field of Women and Child
	                        Development. Besides, playing its nodal role, the Ministry implements certain innovative
	                        programmes for women and children. These programmes cover welfare and support services, training
	                        for employment and income generation, awareness generation and gender sensitization. These
	                        programmes play a supplementary and complementary role to the other general developmental
	                        programmes in the sectors of health, education, rural development etc.
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	                    <h3 class="h3-responsive text-center p-2">Policy Initiatives</h3>
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	                        For the holistic development of the child, the Ministry has been implementing the world's
	                        largest and most unique and outreach programme of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
	                        providing a package of services comprising supplementary nutrition, immunization, health check
	                        up and referral services, pre-school non-formal education. Most of the programmes of the
	                        Ministry are run through non-governmental organisations. Efforts are made to have more effective
	                        involvement of NGOs. The major policy initiatives undertaken by the Ministry in the recent past
	                        include universalisation of ICDS and Kishori Shakti Yojana, launching a nutrition programme for
	                        adolescent girls, establishment of the Commission for protection of Child Rights and enactment
	                        of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act.
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