About Mission Vatsalya:
- Mission Vatsalya Scheme is a roadmap to achieve development and child protection priorities aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- It lays emphasis on child rights, advocacy and awareness along with strengthening of the juvenile justice care and protection system with the motto to 'leave no child behind'.
- Background:
- The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 provisions and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 form the basic framework for implementation of the Mission.
- Components under Mission Vatsalya: It include:
- Improve functioning of statutory bodies;
- Strengthen service delivery structures;
- Upscale institutional care/services;
- Encourage non-institutional community-based care;
- emergency outreach services;
- Training and capacity building.
- The Scheme is implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme since 2021-22.
- Nodal Ministry: The Ministry of Women and Child Development.
About National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD):
- It is an autonomous organisation with its Headquarters in New Delhi.
- It functions under the aegis of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
- The objectives of the Institute are:
- To develop and promote voluntary action in social development.
- To take a comprehensive view of child development and develop and promote programmes in pursuance of the National Policy for Children.
- To develop measures for coordination of governmental and voluntary action in social development.
- To evolve a framework and perspective for organising children's programmes through governmental and voluntary efforts.
