Transcript Stakeholder Consultation for Five

Crèche
Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme
28th October 2010
This presentation covers……
 Context
 Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme
 Present Status
 Issues
CONTEXT…
• Sustained initiatives on education and employment
of women
• Increased opportunities for employment of women
both, within and outside the home
• Globalisation
and large scale migration disintegration of the joint family system - rapid
increase in nuclear families
• As per Census 2001
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36% households are joint, supplemented nuclear
or broken extended families
52% households are nuclear or single parent
CONTEXT
contd…
1/2
• 1/7th of the female population – main workers
• 49.34 lakh women work in the organized sector
• Legislations makes provision of day care mandatory
in the organised sector:
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Factories Act 1948
Mines Act, 1952
Plantation Act, 1951
• Unorganised Sector largely unserviced
Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme
 Launched in 2006
 Target Group
• Children of working mothers- mainly in the
unorganized sector
• Age group 0-6 years
• Families with a monthly income of less than
Rs 12,000 per annum
Rajiv Gandhi National Crèche Scheme
 Services
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Supplementary nutrition
Emergency health care
Pre-school education
Care up to eight hours per day
 Monitoring
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Internal monitoring by mother NGOs
External monitoring by 18 agencies
RGNCS- mode of implementation
Central Sector Scheme implemented by
• Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) and its State
arms - State Social Welfare Boards (SSWB)
• Two national level mother NGOs – Indian Council
for Child Welfare (ICCW) and Bharatiya Adam Jati
Seva Sangh (BAJSS)
(Post complaints regarding irregularities in functioning
management, BAJSS creches, have been transferred to CSWB)
and
Number of Creches
Implementing Agency
CSWB
Number of Creches
16075
BAJSS – temporarily run by
CSWB
1221
ICCW
5303
Total
22599
STATEWISE NUMBER OF CRECHES
S.
No.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
Name of the State/UT
CSWB
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Delhi
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu & Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Orissa
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttaranchal
West Bengal
Andaman & Nicobar
Chandigarh
Dadra & Nagar Haveli
Daman & Diu
Lakshadweep
Pondicherry
Total
1493
155
302
722
575
254
37
746
205
497
457
386
919
620
1755
1343
266
135
163
39
481
241
549
125
1130
142
863
263
922
51
66
32
141
16075
No. of creches
ICCW
BAJSS
613
35
270
248
365
75
212
373
149
70
190
165
260
219
330
100
20
65
97
140
82
169
147
160
330
140
227
8
23
18
3
5303
Total
141
21
12
43
46
70
20
5
65
70
31
27
496
174
1221
2247
211
584
1013
940
375
37
1028
598
651
592
576
1084
880
2044
1704
366
155
228
136
621
323
718
125
1277
329
1689
577
1149
59
89
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0
50
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22599
RGNCS- mode of implementation
• Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB)
• Financial assistance provided to voluntary
organizations on recommendation of State Social
Welfare Board
• SSWB:
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Identifies NGOs for running the crèches
NGO identifies location of crèche and crèche worker
SSWB field officers assess requirement of crèche and
suitability of worker
Monitoring through field worker
Involvement of State Government /District
administration introduced under new Standard
Operating Procedures (SOP)
SOP– Involvement of State Governments
 Establishing credibilty of NGOs
 Review of pre-funding appraisal report by SSWB in
consultation with State Government
 Monitoring –
 District level monitoring committee headed by
District Magistrate
 Local Committees with Patwari, Govt. School
teacher/Village level worker, representative of
Village Panchayat
RGNCS- mode of implementation
Indian Council of Child Welfare (ICCW)
• 32 State /UT Councils (SCCWs) and District
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Councils (DCCWs)
SCCWs consist of elected representatives from life
members of ICCW
Some DCCWs headed by District Collectors/
District Magistrates
Setting up, managing and monitoring of Crèches
through SCCWs/ DCCWs
Local Committees for monitoring
Issues – Ensuring Quality of Services
 Sample inspection of crèches has shown
• Significant number of crèches non-existent
• Gaps in provision of services
• Running time only 4-5 hours instead of 8 hours
• Inappropriate target group: very few children of
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0-3 years
Working mothers
 Inspection of crèches by State Government to
assess quality
Issues – Assessment of Demand
• Developing procedures for determining demand
Use of census data
• Involvement of District Administration
• Coverage of slum clusters in urban areas
• Coverage of women in unorganized areas (agriculture/
industrial/ construction/ migrant labour etc.)
• Proof of Concept to be developed in association with
selected States
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Issues – Mode of Expansion
• Options –
A. Through existing mother agencies
B. New creches through State Governments
C. Developing synergies with Anganwadi
centres
Similar target group and services
• Different working hours
• Pooling of resources possible
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THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION