Women and Child development

Sonali Khan is the managing director of Sesame Workshop India, whose most famous programme Galli Galli Sim Sim is watched by millions of children across the country. Here’s why she decided to quit a thriving journalism career to work in women and child development.

After retirement, NRI Syed Hussaini launched his foundation, SEED USA, to provide education, healthcare, and employment to underprivileged Indians back home.

The government has been working on improving and strengthening the laws relating to children.

On April 5, 2018, an intervention by the Delhi High Court helped the Delhi Police run a pilot programme, with their version of the software.

The National Crime Records Bureau stated that a total of 326 incidents of child marriages had been reported in the country in 2016. Officials fear that the actual number is far higher than this.

The procedure currently is that a woman has to file a complaint with police, which then writes to embassies, following which the embassy tries to serve the summons.

CSR Health Impact Awards 2017 was designed to reward the best CSR initiatives that have impacted health outcomes in the areas of their work across India.

To ensure that child abuse does not go unreported, the ministry of Women and Child development (WCD) is working on an online dropbox facility, which will enable children to complain about abuse or harassment in everyday situations, all while staying anonymous.