Objective & Utility of the Department

For the purpose of accelerating the development of women and children, the Government of India has constituted the Women and Child Development Department as a part of the Ministry of Human Resource Development in the year 1989. For the purpose of mobilizing women's welfare programs and empowering the women, women's welfare directorate and director of Child Welfare, Directorate has been set up in the year 1989, carrying out the welfare related programs of women and child development. In the year 2013, by separating the two departments from the government, the Department of Women and Child Development and Women Welfare Department has been made separate. State Social Welfare Board established as state unit of Uttar Pradesh Control Board and Central Social Welfare Board established under the Orphanage and Ananya Purush Ashram (Supervision and Control 1960), has been kept under the control of the Women and Child Development Department.

Span of Departmental Activities

Implementation of State Women's Empowerment Mission

Operation of Your Happy-Asha Jyoti Kendra

Rani Lakshmibai Women and Child Reservation Fund

Beti Bachao Beti Practice Scheme

181 Women's Help Line

1. National Social Assistance Program The Neutralized Women's Pension Scheme

2. Assistant grant scheme for destitute women after her husband's death

3.Couple award for marrying a non-destitute woman after her husband under 35 years of age

4. Grant Scheme for marriage to the daughter of a destitute woman after her husband's death

5. Financial aid scheme to women suffering from dowry

6. Legal aid scheme for women suffering from dowry

7. Self-help plan

8. Step plan

9. Ujjwala scheme

10. Beti Bachao Beti Teach

11. Women's Help Line

12 Women's Conventional Program - Women's Association, Women's Court, Women's Education, Sanjeevani Kendra, Women Self Help Group