A pro-abortion NGO supported the stance saying, “…it’s not just cis-gender women that can get pregnant and give birth. Reproductive freedom is for everybody.”
In its report on the General and Social Sector for the year ended March 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had also pointed to deficiencies in the working of these bodies, which are meant to provide institutional care to children in need of care and protection.
After Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) claimed over 112 lives in Bihar, the centre has finally decided to intervene by setting up a panel to monitor the situation in Bihar
It is time that attention is drawn towards three disturbing trends in child development, especially relating to the most vulnerable children in our society - orphans, runaways, children of the indigent and children of marginalized sections of society.
The central government, accepting the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission, has granted Child Care Leave to single male parents who are unmarried, widowed or divorced.
UNICEF's India chief says countrywide efforts in healthcare, newborn care and immunisation has been instrumental in bringing down infant death rates in the country.