Chandigarh, March 17
Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini, while presenting the budget in the Haryana Legislative Assembly today, allocated a budget of Rs 1372.10 crore for the Women and Child Development Department in the year 2025-26, which is 36.1 percent more than the revised estimate of Rs 1008.44 crore of the previous year. He said the government is committed to the empowerment of women.
Sh. Nayab Singh Saini informed the House in his budget speech that in the year 2025-26, a target has been set to improve the nutritional level of 80,000 malnourished children by spending an additional amount of Rs 12 crore for malnutrition. On the other hand, the Government of India is running the Kishori Yojana for girls in Nuh district. The target has been set to implement this scheme in all 22 districts with an additional amount of Rs 60 crore.
He said the government aims to build women hostels in Panchkula, Panipat, Sonipat, Rewari, Faridabad and Gurugram for working women and to give women a chance in business, and to allot one-third of the tenders of canteens running in government institutions, panchayats, urban bodies, educational institutions and any other government building to women self-help groups on a priority basis.
The Chief Minister said in his budget speech that a target has also been set to convert 2000 Anganwadi centers into play schools in a phased manner with an amount of Rs 81.63 crore and to convert 2000 Anganwadi centers into Saksham Anganwadi centers.
