September 23, 2023 8:16 PM

Budget allocation for child welfare grown to fourteen thousand crores: Smriti Irani

Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani has said that the government's budget allocation for child welfare has grown from sixty crores in 2009-10 to fourteen thousand crores as of last year. Speaking at the inaugural session of the two-day national annual stakeholders consultation on children in conflict with law in New Delhi, she said that from 2014 to 2023 the government has managed to provide assistance to over seven lakh children.   The Minister informed that under M...