Women & Child Development Division

Last Updated: 01/05/2017

INDIRA GANDHI MATRITAVA SAHYOG YOJANA (IGMSY) MATERNITY BENEFIT PROGRAMME (MBP)

Indira Gandhi Matritava Sahayog Yojana (IGMSY) – Maternity Benefit Programme (MBP) was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development in the year 2010-11.  West District of Sikkim was selected as one of the pilot district from Sikkim till January 2017. from february 2017 remaining 3 Districts (East, North and south) is also covered under this Scheme. The Scheme is being implemented using the platform of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) through the State ICDS Cell at the State Level and District Cell at the CDPOs Office.  Each pregnant and lactating mother will receive a total cash incentive of Rs.6000/- between the second and third trimester till the child attains the age of six months subject to fulfillment of following conditions.
CONDITIONS AND CASH TRANSFER:

Cash Transfer	Conditions	Means of Verification
First Installment of ₹. 3000/- at the end of third trimester.	Registration of pregnancy at AWC / Health Centers within 4 months of Pregnancy At least one ANC with IFA tablets and TT Attended at least one Counseling session at Anganwadi Centre/ VHND	Mother and Child protection Card reflecting registration of pregnancy by relevant Anganwadi Centre/ Health Centres and counter signed by AWW
Second Installment of ₹. 3000/- when a child is 6 months old.	The Birth of the child is registered. The Child has received: OPV and BCG at Birth 1st Dose of OPV & DPT 2nd Dose of OPV & DPT  and 3rd Dose OPV & DPT Exclusive Breastfeeding for six month and introduction of Complementary feeding Attended at least 2 Growth Monitoring  and IYCF Counseling sessions within 3 months of delivery	Mother and Child protection card, Growth Monitoring Chart and Immunization Register

OBJECTIVES OF THE SCHEME:

To Improve the Health and Nutrition Status of Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers and infants by:

1. Promoting appropriate practices care and service utilization during pregnancy, safe delivery and lactation;
2. Encouraging the women to follow (optimal Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices including early and exclusive breast feeding for the first six months;
3. Contributing to better enabling environment by providing cash incentives for improved health and nutrition to Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers.

TARGET GROUP:

Pregnant Women of 19 years of age and above for first two live births (benefit for Still births would be as per the guidelines of the Scheme). All Government employees/ PSUs employees will be excluded from the scheme as they are entitled for paid maternity leave. In case of still birth, the incentive (Cash Transfer) will be provided up to the incidence of the still birth as indicated in the guidelines.

INCENTIVES TO ANGANWADI WORKERS (AWWS) AND ANGANWADI HELPERS (AWHS):
Anganwadi Workers will receive cash incentive of ₹. 200/- per pregnant women and lactating mother after all the due cash transfers to the beneficiary is complete. Similarly, a cash incentive of ₹. 100 is provided to Anganwadi Helpers per beneficiary for ensuring effective implementation of the Scheme.

Nodal Officer: Smt. Normit Lepcha, Joint Director, ICDS (8170015088)

M&E Assistant: Santu Kr. Pradhan (9563534506)

Programme Assistant:

Sang LhamuLecha (8906525151)
TsheringDomaLepcha (8016153356)

For more details, visit: http://www.wcd.nic.in/schemes/maternity-benefit-programme

Last updated: 01/05/2017

RAJIV GANDHI SCHEME FOR EMPOWERNMENT OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS (SABLA) (90:10)

The two existing schemes of Government of India i.e. Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls (NPAG) and Kishori Shakti Yozana (KSY) have been merged with content enrichment and named as Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) – (SABLA). The Scheme is being implemented using the platform of Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) under Integrated Child Development Service Scheme(ICDS). Government of India has identified three Tribal ICDS Projects under North and four Rural and one Urban ICDS Projects in East Districts for implementation of RGSEAG (SABLA) Scheme.

The main aim of the scheme is to empower adolescent girls along with improvement in the nutritional and health status and upgrading various skills like home skills, life skills and vocational skills.

The Scheme is broadly divided into Non Nutritional component and nutritional Component. Government of India provides 90 % assistance for Non Nutritional component as well as in Nutritional Component.
Objectives of the Scheme:

1. Enable the Adolescent Girls for Self-development and empowerment.
2. Improve their nutrition and health status.
3. Promote awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) and family and child care
4. Upgrade their home based skills, life skills and tie up with National Skill Development Programme (NSDP) for Vocational Skill
5. Mainstream out of school Adolescent Girls into formal/non formal educatio
6. Provide information/guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, Post Office, Bank, Police Station, etc.

Target Group:

The scheme aims to covers all Adolescent Girls in the age group of 11 to 18 years under 8 ICDS projects of Sikkim of North and East District. The target group of AGs is again sub divided into two categories viz. Out of School girls 11 to 14 years and all adolescent girls in the age group of 15 to 18 years.

Services provided to AGs under the Scheme:

1. Nutrition provision (600 kcl and 18-20 gms of Protein per day per beneficiaries for 300 days in a year)
2. Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) Supplementation
3. Health Check-up and Referral Services
4. Nutrition and Health Education (NHEd)
5. Counseling/Guidance on family welfare, ARSH, Child Care Practices and Home management
6. Life Skills Education and accessing Public Services
7. Vocational Training for girls aged 16 years and above under National Skill Development Programme (NSDP)

The coverage of the scheme for the last three years is as under:

Year	Beneficiaries covered
	Nutrition Component	Non Nutrition Component
2014-15	7661	1600
2015-16	16447	4632
2016-17	9579*	954

*Targeted beneficiaries for the year 2016-17</>

Nodal Officer: Shri G.M. Subba, Deputy Director ICDS (9434211733)

M&E Assistant: Santu Kr. Pradhan (9563534506)

For more details, visit: http://www.wcd.nic.in/schemes/rajiv-gandhi-scheme-empowerment-adolescent-girls-rgseag-sabla

Last Updated: 01/05/2017

SMALL FAMILY SCHEME (STATE INITIATIVE)
Small family Scheme is a State Programme which was launched during the year 1997, which aims to bring social, economic and psychological changes amongst the women through a social security in the form of incentives. The scheme addresses the women issues from the tender age of thirteen.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE SCHEME IS TO EMPOWER THE WOMEN THROUGH:

1. Delayed age at marriage
2. Providing financial aids for small family norms
3. Promotion of health, sanitation & family planning
4. Promotion of control over her fertility
5. Providing social security during the old age.

ELIGIBILITY:  All adolescent girls of Sikkimese origin who attain 13 years of age.

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED:

1. Copies of Domicile/Certification of Identification
2. Copy of Birth Certificate.
3. Three numbers of passport size photographs.

GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHEME:

1. Girls of 13 years are registered under the scheme Rs. 8000/- per beneficiary is deposited in the bank for a period of 8 years, when the girl reaches 21 years of age.
2. If the registered girl remains unmarried till 21 years of age she becomes eligible for first incentive of Rs. 2000/-
3. If she marries after attaining 22 years of age, She will receive Rs. 500/-
4. If she marries at 23 years of age, Rs. 1000/- is paid to her.
5. First child only after 2 years of marriage makes her eligible for an incentive of 1000/-
6. A gap of 3 years between the first and the second child makes her eligible for another incentive of Rs. 1000/-
7. Rs. 8000/- will be diverted to cover a new beneficiary and the rest will remain in the bank (fixed deposit) in the name of the beneficiary till she attains fifty years of age.

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION FORM

          The Ministry of Women and Child Development launched the “Mahila E-haat” a unique direct online marketing platform to meet the aspirations and needs of women entrepreneurs/SHGs/NGOs on 7th March 2016. The USP of this online marketing platform is facilitating direct contact between vendor and buyer.

              The Platform is easy to access as the entire business of E-haat can be handled through mobile devices. The vendors can be approached by the buyer physically, telephonically or by email, etc. The scheme aims at empowering and ensuring financial inclusion of Women in the economy by providing continued sustenance and support to their creativity through the marketing platform.

               On this portal, bulk, repeat and customised orders can also be undertaken. The online marketing platform displays the products/ services of the vendors with their contact number, address and also the basic cost. The URL of the portal is http://mahilaehaat-rmk.gov.in. The Ministry is looking at helping the women entrepreneurs/SHGs/NGOs where women should be majorly involved in the value chain. The portal is impacting over 26000 SHGs/NGOs/women entrepreneurs with nearly 4 lakh beneficiaries directly and indirectly through 300 contact points.

                 Capacity building, skilling, financial & internet training as also awareness and sensitization workshops are being conducted across the country. Mentoring, hand holding, sourcing etc. by established women entrepreneurs and corporate is also on the anvil. SBI and India Post are sharing information on how payments and logistics can be facilitated to the vendors/buyers of the Mahila E-haat.

                     For any clarifications on Mahila E-Haat , please contact the following Nodal  Person for this initiative :

                                                        Name: Dr. Manju Kalra Prakash

                                              Designation: Senior Consultant & Head, Mahila E-Haat

                                               Contact No: +91 9811116846

                                                         Email: manju.14@gov.in

INTRODUCTION
Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) is a centrally sponsored Scheme, initiated by Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India that aims to providing a protective environment for children in need of care and protection, Children in Conflict with law and other vulnerable children. The Government of Sikkim signed the Memorandum with the Government of India on 30th April 2010. The funding pattern to the State of Sikkim is 90:10 central state shares.
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Last updated on: 23.05.2017

SUPPLEMENTARY NUTRITION PROGRAMME (SNP)

Under Supplementary Nutrition Programme, the preschool children below 6 yrs of age, pregnant women & lactating mothers are provided with the following supplementary foods to improve their nutritional and health status by providing 500 Kcal and 12 to 15 gms of protein to children and 600 Kcal and 18 to 20 gms of protein to mothers as per the feeding norms of GOI.

1.PoustikAahar (Take Home Ration)

The Department is providing multi cereal nutritious food named PoustikAahar, which is manufactured in the Extruder Food Processing Plant at Lumsey, Gangtok.

Children aged 6 months-3 yrs under ICDS and Tribal children of monastic schools are being provided with PoustikAahar @140 gms /day/child for 30 days /month and pregnant women & lactating mothers are being provided with 170 gms of PoustikAahar /day/beneficiary for 30 days/month as Take Home Ration for 360 days/year.

 

 

 

 

Composition OfPaustikAahar (Take Home Ration)

Sl No.	Ingredients	Quantity	Calorie (cal)	Protein (grams)
1.	Whole Wheat	60	207.6	7.08
2.	Soyabean	10	43.2	4.32
3.	Maize	15	51.3	1.66
4.	Sugar	15	59.7	–
	Nutritive value per 100%	100	361.8	13.06
	Quantity of THR for 6 months-3 years children	140	506.52	18.28
	Quantity of THR for Pregnant Women & Lactating mothers/day	170	615.06	22.20

 2.Hot Cooked Meal (Khicheri)

AWC attending children (3 yrs – 6 yrs) are being provided with nutritious khicheri @155gms /day/child for 25 days/month (300days/year).The Hot Cooked Meal (Khicheri) is prepared locally by the SHG/AWW/AWH and fed the children at AWC daily.

 

Composition OfKhicheri (Hot Cooked Meal)

Sl.No	INGREDIENTS	QUANTITY	CALORIE (K.cal)	PROTEIN (gms)
01.	Rice	85	294.1	5.42
02.	Lentil	25	85.3	6.27
03.	Soyabean	5	21.6	2.16
04.	Oil	10	90	–
05.	Potato	10	9.7	0.16
06.	Beans	5	2.4	0.27
07.	Pumkin	5	1.2	0.07
08.	Sag	10	2.6	0.20
Quantity of HCM for AWC attending children/ day		155	506.9	14.51

 3.Special Supplementary Food (Take Home Ration)

The department has started to provide special supplementary food to the identified severely underweight children under ICDS @ 80 gms /day /child as take home ration in addition to their regular supplementary food for 360 days/year in order to supplement 800 Kcal & 20-25 gms of protein to improve their nutritional status.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Composition of Special Supplementary Food

Sl.No.	INGREDIENTS	QUANTITY In %	CALORIE (K.cal)	PROTEIN (gms)
01.	Whole Wheat	65%	224.9	7.67
02.	Bangal Gram	11%	39.6	1.88
03.	Soyabean	2%	8.6	0.86
04.	Groundnut	4%	22.8	1.04
05.	Sugar	18%	71.64	–
Total		100%	367.54	11.45
Special supplementary food for severely underweight children in addition to regular supplementary food.		80 gms	294.2	8.3

In order to meet up the revised feeding norms prescribed by GOI, PoustikAahar (THR) is quarterly tested/analyzed by a mechanism of random sample collected from various ICDS Centres. The analysis of food is conducted at Food Analysis Laboratory of Food & Nutrition Board, GOI, Ministry of Women & Child Development, and Kolkatta.

 

SUPPLEMETARY FOOD PROVIDED 100% UNDER STATE INITIATIVE

 Milk:             AWCs attending children of all 13 ICDS projects are being provided with 200 ml of milk/day/child as morning snacks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MILK @ 200ml/day/child as morning snacks

Sl.No	Ingredients	Quantity	Calorie (kcal)	Protein (gms)
1	Milk	200ml	134.3	6.4

  Egg:               AWC attending children of 18 AWCs of Lachen and Lachung areas under Chungthang Tribal Project are being provided with one whole egg/day/child as a replacement of milk since the milk is not available in these areas.

EGG @ one whole egg/day/child

Sl.No	Ingredients	Quantity	Calorie (kcal)	Protein (gms)
1	Egg (Hen)	One whole	173	13.3

Dry fruits:              To avoid monotony, thursday of every week, the AWC attending children of all 13 ICDS Projects are being provided with dry fruits with kheer instead of khicheri @ 155 gms/day/child.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMPOSITION OF DRY FRUITS WITH KHEER

Sl.No	INGREDIENTS	QUANTITY	CALORIE (kcal)	PROTEIN (gms)
1	Rice	85gms	294.1	5.42
2	Milk	200ml	134	6.4
3	Sugar	10gm	39.8	–
4	Almond	5gm	28.8	1.05
5	Cashewnut	5gm	27.68	0.9
6	Raisins	5gm	11.45	0.15
		TOTAL	535.8kcal	13.92 gms

Apart from supplementary programme, the Nutrition cell also organizes other allied programmes, such as celebration of National Nutrition Week, Celebration of World Breast Feeding Week, organization of Nutrition Awareness Programmes, organization of counseling programme for moderately and severely underweight children  etc. with the objectives to eradicate malnutrition and anemia among the vulnerable group of the community i.e. children below 6 years, pregnant women, lactating mothers and adolescent girls.

 

 

 

 

Every year Children Day is celebrated universally on 14th November to commemorate the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The Children’s Day Celebrations are held in all four districts of the State. The participants usually comprise of panchayats, children from ICDS centres. The Children Day celebrations are also marked by organizing small workshops on various themes and issues pertaining to children. Apart from that National Girl Child day is celebrated on 24th January in the State.

Objective

• Based on the cardinal principles of” protection of child rights” and “best interest of the child”.
• Juvenile Justice Act provides towards creating a child friendly environment to protect and safeguard children in need of care and protection and children in conflict with law.
• Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act,2006 has its emphasis shifted from correctional to rehabilitation and integration of children into social mainstream.

Under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) act 2000 the state Government has framed the Sikkim Juvenile Justice care and protection of children rules 2002 vide notification no 7/SW dated 13.03.03. in 2006, the Juvenile justice (Care and Protection of Children) act, 2000 was amended as the Juvenile justice (Care and Protection of children) Amendment act, 2006.
The provisions of the amended act aim to make adoption procedures hassle-free and increase the number of recognized adoption agencies and make the law more children friendly. The amendment includes street, working children, child beggars among “children in need of care and protection” category.
The Women and Child Development Division of the department is the nodal agency in the state for the implementation of the programs under the act. Under this the correctional service and social defence scheme are being implemented to provide appropriate levels of investigation and justice system outside the regular court. A state advisory committee, inspection committee and the district wise juvenile justice board and child welfare committees have been constituted.
All the voluntary organizations providing institutional care for children in need of care and protection shall have to register under the Sikkim regulation of societies, Associations and Other Voluntary Organization Act, 2008 and Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act 2006.
JUVENILE JUSTICE BOARD
Juvenile Justice Board has been constituted under the Act for exercising the powers and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such Boards in relation to Juveniles in conflict with law.
Juvenile Justice Boards have been established in all the four Districts with the first class Judicial Magistrate designated as the Principal Magistrate of the Board with two social workers of whom atleast one is a woman. The power and functions of the Board and the procedures to be followed by the Board in its function for enquiry is executed under the laid down procedures of the said Act. The State Government has established Observation Homes required for the temporary reception of any Juvenile in conflict with law during the pendency of any enquiry regarding them.
JUVENILE OBSERVATION HOME
There is one Juvenile Observation Home located at Sichey Busty, Gangtok which is maintained by the Department. It provides protection and rehabilitation to the juveniles during remand.
There are four district wise Special Juvenile Police Units in the State which comprises of the following members :

1. Inspector of police and
2. Two paid social workers.

Inspector of police and two paid social workers.
The following are the names of the social workers who are the members of the district wise Juvenile Justice Boards in the State.

1	Smt. Thagu Maya Bardewa	Member, East
2	Mr. L B Pandey	Member, East
3	Smt. Sangay Doma Lepcha	Member, South
4	Mr. S B Rai	Member, South
5	Miss. Khemu Lepcha	Member, North
8	Mr. Pintso Namgyal Lepcha	Member, North
6	Mr. Tek Nath Sharma	Member, West
7	Smt. Janak Kumari Gautam	Member, West

JUVENILE WELFARE BOARD
The State Government has also constituted Juvenile Welfare Board under the Department to monitor the implementation of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)Act, 2000 in the State. The Chairman of the Board is Mr. Phurba Sherpa and Joint Secretary (WCDD)is the member Secretary.

3	Smt. Thagu Maya Bardewa	Member, East
4	Mr. L B Pandey	Member, East
5	Smt. Sangay Doma Lepcha	Member, South
6	Mr. S B Rai	Member, South
7	Miss. Khemu Lepcha	Member, North
8	Mr. Pintso Namgyal Lepcha	Member, North
9	Mr. Tek Nath Sharma	Member, West
10	Smt. Janak Kumari Gautam	Member, West

CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE
Under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and Amendment Act 2006, district wise four Child Welfare Committees have been constituted to perform its functions to achieve the objectives of the Act in regard to children in need of care and protection under the chairmanship of District Magistrate and social workers as the members.
Function of the Committee

• Take cognizance of and receive children.
• Examine and decide on matters brought before the Committee.
• Declare a child legally free for adoption.
• To monitor associations and agencies in order to check on exploitation and abuse of children.
• Take necessary action in respect of missing children in their jurisdiction.
• Co-ordinate with the police and other agencies in care and protection of children.
• Juvenile or Child Welfare Officer have been notified for all the Police Stations by designating the senior most lady officer/senior most NCO/Constable.
• Circle Inspectors in the district are designated as Child Welfare Officers and Juvenile Welfare Officers.

1	Mr. Phurba Sherpa	Chairman
2	Mr. J K Rai, Joint Secretary	Member Secretary
3	Smt. Meena Rani Mukhia	Member, East
4	Mr. Wangyal Tshering Bhutia	Member, East
5	District Collector, North	Chairman
6	Superintendent of Police, North	Member
7	Chief Medical Officer, North	Member
8	CDPO, North	Member Secretary
9	District Collector, South	Chairman
10	Superintendent of Police, South	Member
11	Chief Medical Officer, South	Member
12	CDPO, South	Member Secretary
13	District Collector, West	Chairman
14	Superintendent of Police, West	Member
15	Cheif Medical Officer, West	Member
16	CDPO, West	Member Secretary

Address:
Shri Phurba Sherpa
Chairman,
Juvenile Welfare Board
Lumsey, Gangtok
Office Phone: . Mobile No:9434241194

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme was launched in 1975 with the following objectives:

1. To improve the nutritional and health status of children in the age-group 0-6 years
2. To lay the foundation for proper psychological, physical and social development of the child
3. To reduce the incidence of mortality, morbidity, malnutrition and school dropout
4. To achieve effective co-ordination of policy and implementation amongst the various departments to promote child development; and
5. To enhance the capability of the mother to look after the normal health and nutritional needs of the child through proper nutrition and health education

Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) – after 35 years of implementation has gone into Mission Mode w.e.f .01.04.2013.
ICDS Mission:

1. Preventing and reducing under nutrition as early as possible, ina life cycle approach, recognizing that growth and development deficits are cumulative and irreversible
2. Focusing on reaching children under three years of age, pregnant and breast feeding mothers for enhanced child survival, nutrition, development and learning outcomes.
3. An integrated approach to early child development – addressing physical/motor, cognitive, emotional and social development holistically, enabling children to realize full development potential and active learning capacity- without discrimination.
4. Extending from the centre to family and community based approaches, recognizing that service providers and community volunteers need to reach out to the most vulnerable age groups and the most excluded community groups.
5. Fostering decentralization, flexibility and community based locally responsive child care approaches, relevant to diverse local contexts and building upon local innovation and capacities.
6. Ensuring equity- inclusive approaches to reach the most vulnerable & disadvantaged community groups- Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Minorities, etc.
7. Strengthening convergence to address the inter related needs of young children, girls and women, in gender sensitive life cycle approach.
8. Promoting rights based approach, with women’s empowerment as the mover of social change.
9. Moving from outlays to child related outcomes and ensuring ICDS Universalization with Quality.
10. Ensuring good governance, accountability and enhanced community participation.

The objective of the ICDS mission is:

• To institutionalized essential services and strengthen structures at all levels
• To enhance capacities at all levels
• To ensure appropriate inter- sectoral response at all levels
• To raise public awareness and participation  and
• To create database and knowledge base for child development services

ICDS in Sikkim was started in year 1975-76 with Two Projects and 300 AWCs in West and South Districts. Sikkim today has 13 ICDS Projects with 1308 Anganwadi centers.  The District wise ICDS Projects and AWCs is as under:

Sl. No.	District	Name of Project	No. of AWCs
1.	West	Gyalsing Rural Project	161
2.	West	Soreng Rural Project	154
3.	South	Namchi Rural Project	144
4.	South	Rabongla Rural Project	116
5.	South	Jorethang Rural Project	68
6.	East	Singtam Rural Project	130
7.	East	Gangtok Urban Project	82
8.	East	Pakyong Rural Project	92
9.	East	Rongli Rural Project	68
10.	East	Gangtok Rural Project	103
11.	North	Mangan Tribal Project	80
12.	North	Chungthang Tribal Project	53
13.	North	Dzongu Tribal Project
		TOTAL	1308

Rural Project:   09
Urban Project:  01
Tribal Project:  03
Total  13 Projects

Sl. No.	Name of District	Name of ICDS Project	No. of Anganwadi Centres	Total Population	Rural/ Urban/Tribal/ coastal/hilly
1.	WEST	Gyalshing	161	61678	Rural
		Soreng	154	69980	Rural
2.	South	Namchi	144	47503	Rural
		Ravang	116	47823	Rural
		Jorethang	68/td>	48303	Rural
3.	East	Singtam	130	56110	Rural
		USP	82	69322	Urban
		Rongli	68	27545	Rural
		Pakyong	92	40383	Rural
		Gangtok	103	35554	Rural
4.	North	Mangan	80	20472	Tribal
		Chungthang	53	11641	Tribal
		Dzongu	57	8678	Tribal
	Total		1308	544992

SOURCE: MPR-ICDS

The above objectives are sought to be achieved through a package of services comprising:

• Supplementary Nutrition (SNP)
• Immunization
• Health Check-up
• Referral Services
• Non-formal Pre-school Education and (NFPSE)
• Nutrition & Health Education (NHEd)

Three of the six services namely Immunization, Health Check-up and Referral Services are delivered through Public Health Infrastructure existing in the State.

• SUPPLEMENTARY NUTRITION: This includes supplementary feeding and growth monitoring and promotion. All families in the community are surveyed, to identify children below the age of six and pregnant & nursing mothers. They avail supplementary feeding support for 300 days in a year. By providing supplementary feeding, the Anganwadi attempts to bridge the caloric gap between the national recommended and average intake of children and women in low income and disadvantaged communities.
  One of the basic objective of ICDS is to improve the nutritional and health status of children below the age of six years and mothers (Pregnant & first 6 months of lactation) through protein – energy supplementation that provides 500 Kcal of energy and 12-15 gm of protein to children, 600 Kcal energy and 18-20 gm protein to pregnant & nursing mothers and 800 Kcal energy and 20-25 gm protein to severely undernourished children.  Following food items are available under SNP components:

• Hot Cooked Meal & Milk– distributed to the center attending children of 3 to 6 years of age. The department provides hot cooked meal at all the Anganwadi Centers for 25 days a month (300 days per annum) for Centre Attending Children (3 to 6 yrs). The children are provided with 155gm of khichiri (Cereal – pulse combination) for five days a week during noon and 200 ml of milk in the morning on all five days. On the sixth day the children are provided with nutritious kheer (Sweet porridge).
  The hot cooked meal is prepared locally by the local SHG/AWW/AWH and children are fed at AWC on regular basis.
• Take Home Ration (Pausthik  Aahar)- THR is  distributed to the children of  6 months to 3 years old, pregnant women & nursing mothers. It is prepared by the Department at its own Production Unit. Different categories of beneficiaries are provided with different amount of supplementation as per their nutritional requirement under Take Home Ration, as:
  • Beneficiary Category I(6 m to 3 years children, who do not attend AWC and do not avail Hot Cooked Meal at AWC). These children are to be supplemented with 500 K calories and 12-15 gm of protein at par with the children attending AWC. These categories of children are given Take Home Ration of 140 gms which supplements the calorie and protein need.
  • Beneficiary Category II (Severely underweight)Severely underweight children in the age group 0 – 5 years are provided with highly therapeutic diet in a form of take home ration. The child has to consume 80 gms of this food on regular basis. This is in addition to regular supplementary feeding.
  • Beneficiary Category III(Pregnant & Nursing mothers). The beneficiaries are to be provided with a daily supplementation of 600 Kcal and 18-20 gm protein as per the standing norm. Department is providing 170 gm of Pausthik  Aahar per day /beneficiary which supplements the SNP norm of GOI.
• Immunization: Immunization of pregnant women and infants protects children from six vaccine preventable diseases-poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, tuberculosis and measles. These are major preventable causes of child mortality, disability, morbidity and related malnutrition. Immunization of pregnant women against tetanus also reduces maternal and neonatal mortality.
• Health Check-up: This includes health care of children less than six years of age, antenatal care of expectant mothers and postnatal care of nursing mothers. The various health services provided for children by Anganwadi workers and Primary Health Centre (PHC) staff, include regular health check-ups, recording of weight, immunization, management of malnutrition, treatment of Diarrhoea, de-worming and distribution of simple medicines etc.
• Referral Services: During health check-ups and growth monitoring, sick or malnourished children, in need of prompt medical attention, are referred to the Primary Health Centre or its sub-centre. The anganwadi worker has also been oriented to detect disabilities in young children. She enlists all such cases in a special register and refers them to the medical officer of the Primary Health Centre/ Sub-centre for required medical intervention.
• Non-formal Pre School Education: The Non-formal Pre-school Education (PSE) component of the ICDS may well be considered the backbone of the ICDS Programme, since all its services essentially converge at the Anganwadi – a village courtyard. Anganwadi Centre (AWC) – a village courtyard – is the main platform for delivering of these services. Preschool education is the most joyful play-way daily activity, visibly sustained for four hours a day. It brings and keeps young children at the Anganwadi Centre – an activity that motivates parents and communities. Preschool Education in ICDS, focuses on total development of the child, in the age up to six years, mainly from the underprivileged groups. Its programme for the three-to six years old children in the anganwadi is directed towards providing and ensuring a natural, joyful and stimulating environment, with emphasis on necessary inputs for optimal growth and development. The early learning component of the ICDS is a significant input for providing a sound foundation for cumulative lifelong learning and development. It also contributes to the universalization of primary education, by providing to the child the necessary preparation for primary schooling and offering substitute care to younger siblings, thus freeing the older ones – especially girls – to attend school.
• Nutrition and Health Education: Nutrition, Health and Education (NHED) is a key element of the work of the anganwadi worker. This forms part of BCC (Behavior Change Communication) strategy. This has the long term goal of capacity-building of women – especially in the age group of 15-45 years – so that they can look after their own health, nutrition and development needs as well as that of their children and families.

Each AWC is manned by well-trained community based honorary workers, known as   Anganwadi Worker and Anganwadi Helper. Next in the hierarchy is the Supervisor- who supervises 20-25 AWCs and the Child Development Project Officer [CDPO] is the over all in-charge of a Project. CDPO is also assisted by ministerial staffs. AWWs and AWHs are honorary workers.

Sl. No.	Services	Beneficiaries
1.	Supplementary feeding	Children 6m to 6 yrs, Pregnant Women, Nursing Mothers
2.	Immunization	Children 0- 5 year, Pregnant Women
3.	Health Check Up	Children 0-6 yrs, Pregnant Women, Nursing Mother, Adolescent Girls
4.	Referral Services	Children 0-6 yrs, Pregnant Women, Nursing Mother, Adolescent Girls
5.	Non formal Pre-School Education	Children 3 – 6 years
6.	Health & Nutrition Education	Women of 14 -45 years Adolescent Girls Pregnant women Nursing Mothers

Facilities	TOTAL AWCs	Facilities available
ICDS Building	1308	870
Drinking water	1308	675
Toilet	1308	870
Kitchen	1308	870

Government of Sikkim, from the very beginning, has recognized the training as an integral and the strongest input to equip the ICDS functionaries. Regular training provides functionaries with much needed technical knowhow to realize the job responsibilities and for effective implementation of scheme.Training is an integral part of Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) of Government of India. All ICDS functionaries are extensively trained in their job specific responsibilities as pre service and during the service training.
Anganwadi Workers Training Centre (AWTC) was Sanctioned for the State of Sikkim during the year 1986-87 which is currently located at Syari, East Sikkim with the objectives of training all the grassroots functionaries and making effective implementation of ICDS Programme at the grassroots level. While the Child Development Project Officers(CDPO) and above functionaries are  trained by the apex training  center like National Institute for Public Cooperation and Child Development( NIPCCD) and its Regional Centers, Grassroots functionaries are trained and refreshed at State Level training Centers like Anganwadi Training Centre(AWTC) and Middle Level Training Centre(MLTC).
AWTC regularly conducts training throughout the year as per the training calendar prepared and approved in the beginning of the financial Year. The Trainings conducted at AWTC are:

Sl. No	Name of Training Programme	Duration	Batch size
1	Job Training of Anganwadi Workers	32 days	35
2	Orientation Training of Anganwadi Helpers	8 days	50
3	Induction Training of Anganwadi Workers	8 days	20
4	Refresher Training of Anganwadi Workers	7 days	40
5	Refresher Training of Anganwadi  Helpers	5 days	50
6	Induction Training of Supervisors	10 days	25
7	Refresher Training of Supervisors	7 days	35

All the above mentioned trainings are “in Campus” trainings where training centre is required not only to impart training but also to provide full boarding and lodging facilities. Sikkim has only one sanctioned AWTC located at Lower Shyari, East Sikkim. The AWTC is equipped with dormitories, kitchen and dining facilities, lecture hall, working and resource rooms etc.

TRAINING PERFORMANCE DURING 2016-17

AWTC organized 2 batches of Orientation and 13 batches of Refresher Training for Anganwadi Helper and 2 JTC and 13 Refresher Trainings for the Anganwadi Workers.
The details of training and the achievement are reflected here under:

Sl. No.	Type of Training	No. of Batches	Target	Trained	Achievement
1.	Orientation Training of AWH	2	100	107	107%
2.	Refresher Training of AWH	13	650	591	90.9%
3.	JTC of AWW	2	70	78	111%
4.	Refresher Training of AWW	13	520	498	95.7%
7.	Orientation Instructor AWTC	2 trained at NIPCCD Guwahati 1 untrained

 

Nodal Officer: Shri G.M. Subba, Deputy Director ICDS (9434211733)

In-charge AWTC: Mr.Sangay Tshering Bhutia (9733255095)
M&E Assistant: Shri. Santu Kumar Pradhan (6563534506)

Sl. No.	Name of Employee	Designation	Place of Posting	Contact No.
1	Shri. Phuchung Bhutia	Mission Director	Gangtok,(HQ)	9434188310 Tele-fax 03592-203543 director.icds.sikkim@gmail.com
2	Mrs. Normit Lepcha	Joint Director	Gangtok HQ	8170015088 sikkimicds@gmail.com
3	Mr. G. M. Subba	Deputy Director	Gangtok HQ	9593211733 gmsubba@gmail.com
4	Mr. Samdup Tshering Bhutia	Assistant Director	Gangtok HQ	9434863116 ad.icds.sikkim@gmail.com
5	Mr. Harkabir Shankar	CDPO/Gyalshing Rural Project	Gyalshing, West District	9434869499
6	Mrs. Dorjee Doma Bhutia	CDPO/Soreng Tribal Project	Soreng, West District	8967945578
7	Mr. Yashoua Lepcha	CDPO/Namchi Rural Project	Namchi, South District	9002922893
8	Mr. Bishwas Chandra Rai	CDPO/Ravang Rural Project	Ravang, South District	9609760060
9	Mr. Joshua Lama	CDPO/Jorethang Rural Project	Jorethang, South District	9735944828
10	Mrs. Yamini Pradhan	CDPO/Singtam Rural Projec	Singtam East District	9475504204
11	Mrs. Hishey Ongmu Lepcha	CDPO/Urban Slum Project	Gangtok, East District	8972468073
12	Mrs. Gakhi Phempu	CDPO/Gangtok Rural Project	Gangtok, East District	9593888580
13	Mr. Samdup Tshering Bhutia	CDPO/Pakyong Rural Project	Pakyong, East District	9434863116
14	Mrs. Lhanzey Doma Denzongpa	CDPO/Mangan Rural Project	Mangan North District	9474526480
15	Mrs.Sonam Lhaden Lachungpa	CDPO/Chungthang Tribal Project	Chungthang, North District	967968733
16	Mr. Netuk Lepcha	CDPO/Dzongu Tribal Project	Dzongu North District	9733338421
17	Mr. Karma Bhutia	LDC/ ICDS	Gangtok HQ	8972956777
18	Mr. Santu K. Pradhan	M&E Assistant	Gangtok HQ	9563534506 assistant.icds.sikkim@gmail.com
19	Mr. S.T. Bhutia	Training In-charge AWTC	AWTC Syari	99733255095

There are two working women hostels to provide secure and economical accommodation to working women in the State. The working women hostels are located at Gangtok and Namchi and have a capacity of 74 inmates.
Room Rent chargeable at the Working Hostel, Gangtok are as:

Type of Room	@// Occupancy
Single Bedded	Rs. I50/per month
Three Bedded	Rs. 80/per bed/month (attached bathroom)
Four Bedded	Rs. 60/per bed/month (common bathroom)

Documents to be submitted for admission to the above hostel facility are:

1. Sikkim Subject/Certificate of Identification.
2. Income Certificate.
3. Medical Certificate.
4. Recommendation of Area MLA
5. Character Certificate.

There are 156 crèches throughout the State which are run by Non governmental organizations with 90 % grant aid from Central Social Welfare Board and 10 % share from State Government. The Sikkim State Social Welfare Board looks after the smooth functioning of these Crèches.

The Department has been providing Grant in Aid as financial assistance to Destitute Homes namely, Kaluk Destitute Home at Kaluk, AtishDipankar Destitute Home at Chakung, BalikaNiketan at Gangtok, Kingston Destitute Home at Rhenock and Wangdi Faith Mission at Mangan are run by voluntary organizations besides one home at Kaluk, West Sikkim which is maintained by the Department. This is an institutional support programme to provide care, protection and education to children who have been orphaned, semi-orphaned and destitute within the State. At present the capacity in the six existing Homes of 400 children are provided financial assistance @ Rs. 540/- per child in the homes run by voluntary organizations and Rs. 600/- per child for the Kaluk Destitute Home which is run by the Department.
1. Kaluk Destitute Home for boys is maintained/run by the department.

Year of Establishment	1979
Number of Children	66 boys.
New boy’s hostel	1 No. constructed under OBC Development Programme/Welfare Division.
Grants	100% fund provided by the Deptt @ of Rs. 600/- per child/month

2. AtishDipankar Destitute Home, Chakung is run by a voluntary organization, Kripasaran Buddhist Mission.

Year of Establishment	1976
Number of Children	124(boys: 72/girls: 52).
No. of Hostel Constructed	1 Girls hostel and 1 Boys hostel – Under OBC Development
Grants in Aid	90% funding by the department @ of Rs.540/- per child/ month.

3.Wangdi Faith Mission Home, Mangan is run by a voluntary organization, Wangdi Faith Mission.

Year of Establishment	1981
Number of Children	60 (Girls: 35 and Boys:25)
Hostel	Rented premises.
Grants in Aid	90% funding by the department @ of Rs. 540/- per child/ month.

4.Kingstone Destitute Home, Rhenock is run by a voluntary organization, Akhil Sikkim AsahayaKalyanSamiti

Year of Establishment	1998
Number of Children	60 (Girls: 26/Boys:34)
Grants in Aid	90% funding by the department @ Rs.540/- per child/month.

5.BalikaNiketan, Tadong is run by a voluntary organization, Arithang Social WelfareAssociation

Year of Establishment	1987
Number of Children	55 (Girls)
Grants in Aid	90% funding by the department @Rs.540/- per child/month.

6.Turuk Destitute Home, Turuk is run by voluntary organization, Turuk Development Society

Year of Establishment	2008
Number of Children	35 (boys: 20/girls:15)
Grants in Aid	90% funding by the department@ Rs.540/- per child/pm.

The Short Stay Home Scheme was implemented in the State for the welfare of the distressed women through the State Social Welfare Advisory Board w.e.f. 1999. There is one Short Stay Home “MAMTALAYA” situated at AmdoGolai, Gangtok. The home has a capacity for 25 inmates and provides shelter, medical care, counselling, vocational training, referral, rehabilitation & follow up services. The purpose of the Short Stay Home is to provide protective respite to women and abandoned children who are without shelter for a number of reasons as given below:

1. Victims of trafficking.
2. Those who, as a result of family tension or discord, are made to leave home and have no means of subsistence and social protection or are facing litigation on account of marital disputes.
3. Those who have been sexually assaulted and are facing the problem of re-adjustment in the family or society.
4. Victims of mental maladjustment, emotional disturbances and social ostracism.
5. Abandoned children who are without any parental care.
6. Upgraded with helpline services w.e.f. 2006-07.

JUVENILE JUSTICE BOARD
Juvenile Justice Board has been constituted under the Act for exercising the powers and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on such Boards in relation to Juveniles in conflict with law.
Juvenile Justice Boards have been established in all the four Districts with the first class Judicial Magistrate designated as the Principal Magistrate of the Board with two social workers of whom atleast one is a woman. The power and functions of the Board and the procedures to be followed by the Board in its function for enquiry is executed under the laid down procedures of the said Act. The State Government has established Observation Homes required for the temporary reception of any Juvenile in conflict with law during the pendency of any enquiry regarding them.
JUVENILE OBSERVATION HOME
There is one Juvenile Observation Home located at Sichey Busty, Gangtok which is maintained by the Department. It provides protection and rehabilitation to the juveniles during remand.
There are four district wise Special Juvenile Police Units in the State which comprises of the following members :

1. Inspector of police and
2. Two paid social workers.

Inspector of police and two paid social workers.
The following are the names of the social workers who are the members of the district wise Juvenile Justice Boards in the State.

1	Smt. Thagu Maya Bardewa	Member, East
2	Mr. L B Pandey	Member, East
3	Smt. Sangay Doma Lepcha	Member, South
4	Mr. S B Rai	Member, South
5	Miss. Khemu Lepcha	Member, North
8	Mr. Pintso Namgyal Lepcha	Member, North
6	Mr. Tek Nath Sharma	Member, West
7	Smt. Janak Kumari Gautam	Member, West

JUVENILE WELFARE BOARD
The State Government has also constituted Juvenile Welfare Board under the Department to monitor the implementation of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children)Act, 2000 in the State. The Chairman of the Board is Mr. Phurba Sherpa and Joint Secretary (WCDD)is the member Secretary.

3	Smt. Thagu Maya Bardewa	Member, East
4	Mr. L B Pandey	Member, East
5	Smt. Sangay Doma Lepcha	Member, South
6	Mr. S B Rai	Member, South
7	Miss. Khemu Lepcha	Member, North
8	Mr. Pintso Namgyal Lepcha	Member, North
9	Mr. Tek Nath Sharma	Member, West
10	Smt. Janak Kumari Gautam	Member, West

The Contact Details of the Juvenile Justice Board Members are as follows:

Sl No	Name	Designation	Address	Contact No.

CHILD WELFARE COMMITTEE
Under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 and Amendment Act 2006, district wise four Child Welfare Committees have been constituted to perform its functions to achieve the objectives of the Act in regard to children in need of care and protection under the chairmanship of District Magistrate and social workers as the members.
Function of the Committee

• Take cognizance of and receive children.
• Examine and decide on matters brought before the Committee.
• Declare a child legally free for adoption.
• To monitor associations and agencies in order to check on exploitation and abuse of children.
• Take necessary action in respect of missing children in their jurisdiction.
• Co-ordinate with the police and other agencies in care and protection of children.
• Juvenile or Child Welfare Officer have been notified for all the Police Stations by designating the senior most lady officer/senior most NCO/Constable.
• Circle Inspectors in the district are designated as Child Welfare Officers and Juvenile Welfare Officers.

1	Mr. Phurba Sherpa	Chairman
2	Mr. J K Rai, Joint Secretary	Member Secretary
3	Smt. Meena Rani Mukhia	Member, East
4	Mr. Wangyal Tshering Bhutia	Member, East
5	District Collector, North	Chairman
6	Superintendent of Police, North	Member
7	Chief Medical Officer, North	Member
8	CDPO, North	Member Secretary
9	District Collector, South	Chairman
10	Superintendent of Police, South	Member
11	Chief Medical Officer, South	Member
12	CDPO, South	Member Secretary
13	District Collector, West	Chairman
14	Superintendent of Police, West	Member
15	Cheif Medical Officer, West	Member
16	CDPO, West	Member Secretary

 

Sl No	Name	District	Designation	Contact Number
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8

In order to eradicate the evils of domestic violence and to deliver justice to women with regard to their rights, the State Government of Sikkim constituted Sikkim State Commission for Women at Gangtok, East Sikkim. The State Commission for Women in Sikkim was constituted as a statutory body in the year 2001 under the State Commission for Women Act, 2001 (Act. No 11 of 2001) to protect the rights of women in the State. The State Government also drafted and implemented the Sikkim State Commission for Women (Salaries, Allowance and other conditions of service of the Chairperson and the Members) Rules, 2003.
Objectives:

• To bring about the awareness of Women’s Right as enshrined in CEDAW (Convention to eliminate all forms of Discrimination against Women), Indian Constitution as well as other laws relevant to Women in general and especially belonging to weaker section of the society including SC/ST and others.
• To enable the women in general to become aware of the various Central and State Government schemes for the social and economic upliftment.
• To enable the rural women to become aware of health issues affecting them including HIV/AIDS and STDs.
• To empower women to fight violence against them to gain access to free legal aid.
• Campaign to create awareness about the inheritance rights, maintenances rights.
• To create awareness for empowerment of women by disseminating information regarding various schemes and programmes as launched by Central Government and State Government from time to time.
• To make women and children about Dowry Prohibition Act and of Child Marriage Act respectively.

Functions of the Commission
The functions of the Commission as specified as specified in Section 11, Chapter III of the Sikkim State Commission for Women Act, 2001 are summarized below :-

• Study and examine the status of women’s right pertaining to economic, social and health and also to emphasis on the morality, literacy rate of the women in the tribal areas.
• Reports recommending the State Government to provide standard environment to improve the status of women in the State.
• Compilation of information related to offences against women and case studies related to offences as laid down in various legislations.
• Coordination with the State Cell and District Cell for atrocities against women for creating awareness among public to give their opinion which will help for speedy reporting and detection of offences of such atrocities against the offenders.
• To receive complaints and take suo-motu notice of the matters relating to deprivation of women’s rights etc and take up the issues with appropriate authorities.
• The State Government shall cause all the recommendations or Commission under sun clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-section (1) which relate to any matter with which the State Government is concerned to be laid before the legislature of the State along with a Memorandum explaining the action taken or proposed to betaken on the recommendation of the Commission and the reasons for non acceptance, of such recommendations.
• The Commission shall have all the powers of the Civil Court to investigate and try suits in respect of the following matters, namely :
  1. Summoning and enforcing the attendance of any persons from any part of India and examining him on oath.
  2. Requiring the discovery and production of any documents.
  3. Receiving evidence on affidavits.
  4. Requisitioning any public record or copy thereof from any court or office.
  5. Issuing commissions or the examination of witnesses and documents.
  6. Any other matters which is required to be, or may be prescribed.

The members of the Commission are as follows:-

1	Smt. Rehna Rai	Chairperson
2	Smt. Yousa Lachepa	Member secretary
3	Smt. Dikila Bhutia	Member
4	Smt. Chumzey Bhutia	Member
5	Smt. Geeta Ruchal	Member
6	Smt. Kavita Chettri	Member
7	Smt. Sumitra Subba	Member
8	Smt. Leela Sharma	Member
9	Smt. Tshering Doma Lepcha	Member
10	Smt. Laki Doma Bhutia	Member
11	Smt.Subhadra Dangal	Member
11	Smt.Kavita Rai	Member
12	Smt.Laki Doma Gurung	Member
13	Smt.Lakhit Lepcha	Member
14	Ms Noorjaha Begum	Member
	Contact Address :
	Smt. Rehna Rai Chairperson Sikkim State Commission for Women            Old Secretariat, Gangtok Office Phone No:  203051 Mobile No:  8145884246

• The Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005 was implemented in the State in 2007 vide Notification No.19/RC/LD/07 dated 17.12.2007
• The State Government has published Sikkim Commission for Protection of Child Rights Rules, 2007 vide Notification No 55/2008-09/SJE&WD dated 30/7/2008 to carry out the provisions of the Act.
• Sikkim Commission for Protection of Child Rights was set up in January 2008 vide Notification No. 49/WCWD/2008 dated 10/1/2008
• Headquarter : Gangtok
• Composition: Chairperson and 3 members.

• Implementation of the provisions of the Act.
• Examine and review the safeguards provided to protect the child rights.
• Inspect children institutions in the State.
• Inquire into complaints and take suo motu notice on violation of child rights, on compliance of guidelines.
• Produce and disseminate information on rights of the child.
• To look into matters relating to child in need of care and protection including

• Children in conflict with law,
• Children in distress, marginalized and disadvantaged children,
• Juveniles,
• Children without family and
• Children of prisoners and to recommend appropriate measures.

The members of the Commission are as follows:

1	Smt. Deekila Bhutia	Chairperson
2	Smt. Sakun Gurung	Member
3	Smt. Ambika Pokhrel	Member
4	Smt. Chuden Phigu Bhutia	Member
5	Mrs.Sanju Rai	Member
6	Mrs.Pemdiki Sherpa	Member
7	Mrs.Phigu Bhutia	Member
5	Shri. N.T Bhutia	Member Secretary

Contact Address :

Smt. Deekila Bhutia Chairperson State Commission Protection for Child Rights Old Secretariat, Gangtok Office Phone No:  203217     Mobile No: 7872975272      Email: