Women And Child Development  

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In the year 2000, Smriti Irani made her debut with the TV serial ‘Hum Kal Aaj Aur Kal.’ Presently, Smriti Irani is serving as the Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Minority Affairs.

Adoption is no longer an act of bringing a child home but it is a legal process where all the rights and privileges of a child are safeguarded along with the transfer of responsibilities to adoptive parents in a legal manner said Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD), Smriti Zubin Irani

The POCSO Amendment Bill that was already approved by the Rajya Sabha, defines child pornography and also makes it a punishable offense. Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said this Bill aims at making offences against children gender neutral
 

Atrocities against children have seen an increase in Kerala in the last four years, with at least 6,000 POCSO cases still pending trial
 

This year, the Nari Shakti Puraskar has also been awarded to a One Stop Centre (OSC) and to a state which has shown exceptional progress in improving child sex ratio at birth under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme. The Ministry of women and child development is establishing OSCs for violence-affected women in all districts of the country

Earlier in 2013, the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development introduced its helpline number after the Nirbhaya incident occurred in Delhi

Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi has stressed on the need to have a #MeTooIndia movement in India to encourage women to come forward and report.

Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi said today seven Bollywood production houses have accepted her request to form panels to deal with cases of sexual harassment, and urged 17 others to follow their lead.