Dehradun. Chief Secretary Radha Raturi has directed the Women and Child Development Department to run a campaign across the state from October 4 for the next 15 days to register pregnant women working in the unorganized sector, pregnant women working as laborers at construction sites and domestic servants and pregnant women living in urban slums in the Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY).
CS Raturi has directed to ensure 100 percent coverage of PMMVY of all pregnant women working in the unorganized sector, especially those from the low income group, within the stipulated time frame. Along with this, the Chief Secretary has directed the Labor Department to review the Employees State Insurance (ESI). CS has directed the Secretary Urban Development to hold an immediate review meeting regarding ensuring ESI coverage to the personnel working in urban bodies, especially the low income group employees and sanitation workers and submit a report in this regard.
Chief Secretary Radha Raturi has directed the Women and Child Development Department to compulsorily conduct three ANCs of all pregnant women by ANM and to compulsorily conduct death audit of deaths of pregnant women during delivery. She has given instructions for mapping of Anganwadis in urban areas, especially near slums and construction sites, so that the problem of malnutrition and underweight among children below the age of five can be resolved and pregnant women can get essential health facilities and benefits of various schemes. The Chief Secretary has given instructions to work on an action plan to promote millets under the take home ration distributed to pregnant women by the Women and Child Development Department.
Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, during the review meeting of indicators with relatively low performance related to Women and Child Development and Labor Department under SDG Index 2023-24 in the Secretariat, has given instructions for rationalization of schemes related to Women and Child Development and Labor Department to improve the said indicators. The Chief Secretary has instructed all the departments to work with a coordinated strategy to reduce maternal mortality rate, anemia among pregnant women and adolescents and malnutrition among children in the state.
Additional Secretary Prashant Arya and other officers of Women and Child Development and Labor Department were present in today’s meeting.
