All Child Welfare Content
13 published pieces
The First in the Family: First-Generation College Students from SC/ST Communities in Odisha
She is the first person in her family to sit in a college classroom. Her father farms two acres in Kandhamal; her mother never completed primary school. When she was admitted to a degree college in Phulbani after scoring 73 percent in her Class 12 board exams, the village gathere...
When the Street Becomes Home: Understanding Street-Connected Children in Odisha's Urban Centres
In the winter of 2020, as India's first COVID-19 lockdown froze movement across the country, a specific group of children became visible in a way they had never been before — not because their situation was new, but because everything around them had stopped. On the platforms of....
Jashoda Scheme — Odisha's Financial Support for Orphaned Children
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PM POSHAN + Mission Shakti + Odisha Millet Mission — The Triple Convergence That Feeds Children, Empowers Women, and Markets Tribal Grain
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PM POSHAN — The Mid-Day Meal That Keeps 11.80 Crore Children in School
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PMAY-Gramin — A Permanent Home for Every Rural Family Without One
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Mission Vatsalya — India's Child Protection Architecture, From Gram Sabha to Supreme Court
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Mission Saksham Anganwadi and POSHAN 2.0 — India's Integrated Nutrition Framework
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Parinaam Foundation — The Poverty Exit That Takes a Generation to Complete
In the informal settlements at the edge of every Indian city — the colonies that don't appear on ward maps, the communities that receive no civic services, the families who live under tarpaulins and polyethylene — there is a category of poverty that is both urban and invisible. T...
Conditional Cash Transfers in Tribal India — Evidence, Adaptation, and the Mamata Lesson
Conditional Cash Transfers are programmes that provide money to low-income households on the condition that they meet specific behavioural criteria — typically health-seeking behaviours like attending antenatal care, delivering in a health facility, vaccinating children, or sendi...
Child Labour in Odisha — Why Rescue Alone Fails, and What Works Instead
Child labour persists not because parents do not value education, but because the economic calculus at the household level often makes children's labour more immediately valuable than their schooling.
Village Level Child Protection Committees — Making the System Work
Village Level Child Protection Committees are community institutions created under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS), implemented by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. They are not a new idea created by NGOs — they are a government-mandated structure at ever...
Child Welfare in Odisha: What the World Has Learned, and What We Must Do Differently
There is a village in Malkangiri district — one of hundreds like it — that the nearest functional primary health centre cannot reach in under three hours by road. The Anganwadi worker assigned to it hasn't been paid in six months. The Child Welfare Committee for the block meets r...