Vatsalya Mela at Dilli Haat(14th-19th Nov 2012)

The Vatsalya Mela (festival of mother’s love) is organized by the Ministry of Women and Child Development,Government of India every year. This year it will be held between 14^th to 19^th November  2012 at Dilli Haat, New Delhi. The theme for this year’s mela is “Safety and Protection of Women” and “Child Rights”.

The Vatsalya Mela takes you through the journey of childhood and motherhood and all that is nurturing and empowering, enlightening, enterprising, engaging and entertaining.

The Mela gives you the opportunity to get a glimpse of the policies, schemes, programmes, initiatives and activities of the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India and its organizations. It showcases initiatives and projects of both the government as well as non-governmental organizations in their respective fields.

The Mela presents a combination of, information activities, interaction, cultural programmes, thematic exhibition, display of services of States and products of NGO’s and Partners.

The Mela is a blend of ideas, IEC (Information, Education and Communication) activities, cultural programmes, interaction, thematic exhibitions and display of services and products of states, NGOs and partners.  Entrance to visit Mela at Dilli Haat will be made free by the Government of India to encourage the public.

The NMEW stall at the Mela will showcase the activities of the NMEW, providing information about women’s schemes to the public and creating awareness on women’s issues in India & to highlight the Gender issues with a focus on women and child.

In addition, the National Resource Centre for Women(NRCW) is organising a ‘Naari ki Chaupal’ (Women’s gathering) – a vibrant space outside the NMEW stall where films on gender sensitization will be screened, dance performances by women and girls, street plays and legal literacy quizzes will be held along with discussions on various themes such as the declining sex ratio and sexual harassment of women, etc.

The National Resource Centre for Women will be organizing various cultural activities with the help of various professional agencies that creatively represent the themes, viz., Girl’s Safety, Domestic Violence, Protection of Women, Menstrual Hygiene, Female Feticide, Value of Girl Child, Sanitation through audio- video shows, street plays, game shows, puppetry, discussion, interactive  games, etc. A number of reputed civil society organizations have confirmed to collaborate with us to make Naari Ki Chaupal programme a success.

Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Awards Announced.

National Service Scheme (NSS) is one of the flagship programmes of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports aimed at developing qualities of good citizenship and spirit of Volunteerism among youth and to provide them an opportunity to work with the people in the villages and slum dwellers. The scheme seeks to achieve its objectives through twin approach i.e. “Campus to Community” and “College to Village”. National Service Scheme was launched during the birth centenary celebration of Mahatma Gandhi on 24th September 1969 in 37 Universities involving 40,000 students. Today, NSS has more than 3.2. million student volunteers on its roll spread over 299 Universities. The scheme is implemented through the State Governments and the operations of NSS are at the University/ College and Higher Secondary School level.          In 1993-94, during the Silver Jubilee year of NSS, the Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme (IGNSS) Awards were instituted to give recognition to selfless service rendered by the NSS volunteers, Programme Officers and the Programme Coordinators. These awards were earlier conferred to – (i) Best University (Programme Coordinator), (ii) 6 best Programme Officers and 6 units and (iii) 16 Best NSS volunteers. From 2010 onwards, the number of awards and the prize money has been enhanced as under:   Category No. of Awards Value of each Award   University/+2 Council (State Level) 1 Rs. 2,00,000/-   Upcoming University 1 Rs. 1,00,000/-   Programme Officer 10 Rs. 20,000/-   NSS Unit 10 Rs. 70,000/- (For NSS Programme Development) NSS Volunteers 30 Rs. 15,000/-              This year, the IGNSS Awards will be given away by the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee and the Ceremony is scheduled to be held on 19th November, 2012 at Rashtrapati Bhavan.             Rajiv Gandhi university of Health Sciences, Karnataka has been selected for the award for the best  University/+2 council (State level).   The University has made exemplary contribution in the field of Community Health through NSS. Dr. B. Vasantha Shetty, the Programme Coordinator has inter-aliaorganised, under the ‘School Health’ Programme, 550 camps, which benefitted 1,36,379 students .  Under 73 ‘Health   Education’ Camps, 33,385 people were   benefitted. 849 Health check- up’ camps were orgnised to benefit 54,930 people.  146 blood donation camps were organized, through which 14,303 Units of blood was collected. ough various programmes/camps, 51,218 children were immunized.   In the category of Upcoming University, there is a tie and the award will be shared  betweenDirectorate of Higher Education, Himachal Pradesh and University of Kashmir,  Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir.  Both these Institutions have made valuable contribution to NSS, despite facing tremendous adversities.  Their role is not only restricted to planting of saplings, collection/donation of blood, community service but also spreads to creation of durable assets in the community, spreading awareness on social and current issues, setting up of Social Harmony and  Disaster Mitigation camps, improve literacy levels etc.   Five Universities have been selected for “Certificate of Appreciation” awards for their valuable contributions, viz. Andhra University, Directorate of Technical Education-Kerala, University of Mumbai,Annamalai University (Tamil Nadu) and University of Calcutta.

 

32nd iitf

 the 32nd Edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF) to be held at Pragati Maidan every year from November 14th to 27th, 2012. IITF is the largest trade fair in this part of the world. IITF, 2011 saw participation of 7,000 exhibitors, including overseas participation from 28 countries, representing over 350 companies. A large number of domestic and foreign business persons visited the fair and the fair attracted trade delegations from 73 countries. Over one million general visitors also visited the fair during 14-27th November, 2011. This year the theme is "Skilling India". I believe the theme “Skilling India” is most pertinent, contemporary and is an extremely important objective of our policy today. We propose to organize a Thematic display in foyer of Hall 1 in an area of about 850 sq.mt. which depicts the initiatives in skilling undertaken by Ministries, Departments, States and important private sector players and their contribution in the area of skilling during IITF 2012. The product profile of IITF 2012 include Cosmetics, Healthcare products, Service sector, Consultancy services, Consumer Electronics, Home & Kitchen Appliances, Fitness equipment, Optical and Eye care products, Textiles, Jute and Coir, Leather Goods, Footwear & Travel Goods, SARAS (rural art and craft products), Banks, Insurance, Financial Services, Processed Food & Agro Products, building Industry products, products from Small and Medium size Enterprise, products from Khadi (KVIC), Ministries & Government Departments and various products from Foreign Countries. We invite your suggestions to make this event more user friendly for business visitors and the public.