Gandhinagar, March 12 (IANS) Women and Child Development Minister Dr Manisha Vakil on Thursday hit back at the Congress in the Gujarat Assembly while replying to remarks by MLA Jignesh Mevani on Anganwadi workers and malnutrition, saying the condition of Anganwadi centres had significantly improved under the present government.Participating in the debate on the Women and Child Development Department’s budgetary demands of Rs 7,689.84 crore, Vakil said those questioning the government should re…
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New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANS) NITI Aayog has unveiled the road map to operationalise Frontier Technologies in a strategic shift from digital governance to intelligent AI-enabled governance in public policy across 50 Aspirational Blocks as real-world impact sandboxes, according to an official statement issued on Saturday.The deliberations were held at the Frontier 50 Workshop on Friday, under the Aspirational Districts and Blocks Programme. The newsletter Aspirational Times was released during the wor…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) During the last five years – from April 2020 to January 2026 – nearly 5.69 crore Ayushman cards have been created under Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY), the Lok Sabha was informed on Friday. Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Prataprao Jadhav, in a written reply, said that as on January 31, 5.77 crore hospital admissions amounting to Rs. 1.15 lakh crore have been authorised for private hospitals, under the scheme.In resp…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) A total of 2 lakh Anganwadi Centres across the country have been approved for upgradation as Saksham Anganwadis with improved nutrition and early childhood care and education till December last year, Annpurna Devi, Union Minister for Women and Child Development, told the Parliament on Friday.Under Mission Poshan 2.0, two lakh Anganwadi Centres located in Government buildings at 40,000 AWCs per year are strengthened as Saksham Anganwadis. “Saksham Anganwadis are provided…