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COVER STORY
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN’S DAY
SPECIAL

WOMEN AT THE CENTER OF THE NEW STORY OF

SOCIAL CHANGE

It is difficult to
make the country PRADHAN MANTRI MATRU RS 16,418.12
developed without VANDANA YOJANA
taking half the Under the Pradhan Maternity crore given to 3.69
population of the Mantri Matru Vandana benefit of crore beneficiaries
country on the path Yojana, financial Rs 5,000 till December
compensation is
of progress. Whether provided for loss of for the first child 2024.
it is about health or wages due to pregnancy is being given
social upliftment... and delivery. This directly into the
now women power is scheme was previously beneficiary’s account
limited to the first child,
under this scheme.
at the center of every but if the child is a
new story of change. girl, then it has been The second child of
This is the reason extended to cover the eligible beneficiaries is
also provided a cash
why for the last second child as well. incentive of Rs 6,000
This is a step towards
decade, importance promoting gender under PMMVY, provided
has been given to equality. the second child is a girl.
the progress of
half the population SPECIAL CARE IS BEING TAKEN FOR DAUGHTERS RIGHT FROM THEIR BIRTH
and women-led Institutional Decline in maternal and infant mortality rate
development. It deliveries 97.3% Infant mortality
is the impact of Maternal Neonatal rate (per 1
mortality rate
mortality rate
policies of the 61% 2023-24 (per 1 lakh) (per 1 thousand thousand live
government that half live births) births)
the population of the 2014-15
country is moving
rapidly towards self-
reliance, education, 130 97 26 20 39 28
and equality 2014 2014 2014
while overcoming 2020 2020 2022
difficulties and The mortality rate of children under 5 years of The sex ratio at birth increased from 918
challenges... age decreased from 45 in 2014 to 32 in 2020. in 2014-15 to 930 in the year 2023-24.

under the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, which was caused oppression of women, have been stopped
launched to make the lives of girls safer in the by enacting laws. Millions of Muslim women today
country. Today, female pilots account for 5 per cent are protected from the inhuman evil practice of
of aircraft flying worldwide, compared to 15 per triple talaq. The implementation of this law has
cent in India, an increase in the last 10 years. At the reduced the number of triple talaq by 80-82 per cent
social level, the vices such as triple talaq that in a few years.

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