Telangana a model for other States in welfare: Women’s Parliamentary Committee

Hyderabad: The 15-member Women’s Parliamentary Committee appreciated the State government’s initiatives in introducing programmes like KCR Kits and Kalyana Lakshmi, and said Telangana was a model for other States to take up such welfare measures. The Committee also showered praise on the government for encouraging setting up of Nutri gardens, saying such gardens would be […]

Hyderabad: The 15-member Women’s Parliamentary Committee appreciated the State government’s initiatives in introducing programmes like KCR Kits and Kalyana Lakshmi, and said Telangana was a model for other States to take up such welfare measures.

The Committee also showered praise on the government for encouraging setting up of Nutri gardens, saying such gardens would be very helpful to women and children.
The committee members arrived in the city on Monday on a three-day study tour. The committee began its tour with a meeting with Women’s Commission at a hotel and later visited the Women and Child Welfare Commissioner’s Office, Ameerpet.

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Women and Child Welfare Commissioner Divya Devarajan gave a detailed presentation on the welfare programmes implemented for women and children by the State government.
The Commissioner also shared details pertaining to distribution of KCR Kits to pregnant women in the State. Impressed by the programmes, the Women MPs complimented the State government for taking up KCR Kits and Kalyana Lakshmi schemes.

Distribution of KCR Kits had significantly increased institutional deliveries, the Committee members said, adding that these measures go a long way in helping the poor and downtrodden.

Further, noticing the Nutri garden set up at the Women and Child Welfare Commissioner’s Office, the Committee members enquired about the garden.

The committee members said such measures were not being taken up in other States and stressed on the need to replicate them, citing its benefits for women and children.

Later, the committee members visited the call centre set up to address issues of differently-abled and senior citizens. They inquired with the call centre staff on the number of calls received in a day, type of issues raised by complainants and the measures taken to address them.