Establishment of the District Women and Children Committee aiming to actively contribute those parties to the upcoming community empowerment programs to be implemented by the government for the welfare of women and children in Kegalle district Happened yesterday (27) at the District Secretariat.
Focus were primarily focused on the district forest affairs, early children, child rights, childcare, psych counseling services.Here the District Forest Development Officer presented progress in programs with and free operational grants for women in the district and also made new proposals. The need of a center to short-term detention of violent women especially in the district, officers lack of legal power for investigation in 1938 complaint service and ongoing threats of security, happy family concept, child development committees, women committees, stage group activation Explained about it.Breakfast for Early Childhood Development Centers and Kindergarten children will be provided on grants exceeding 35 million while considering programs currently ongoing in the district regarding early childhood development. Also now the nutrition allowance program for pregnant and dairy mothers is being implemented and focused on getting a post-pregnant mothers regarding that nutrition bag. And more than 18 million rupees for pre-school teachers. The 6000 giveaway has been deployed for the giveaway program which is currently giving to ninety out of five teachers. Fifteen percent of pregnant mothers in the district are after nutrition and thirty percent of overnutrition. Raising quota in the breakfast time program, nutrition status as well as economic situation are suggested to consider during pre-school selection regarding the breakfast delivery program. Further, ideas were also raised on teacher training for kindergarten teachers as well as successfully maintaining the system of communicating that information to the local secretariat regarding birth and abortions.
Current progress on promotion of child rights in the district was also investigated here, providing travel facilities to ensure the right to education of estate related children, implementing identity survey at-risk children within six local secretariat divisions, setting up a child friendly centre The need was also shown here.
The current government is implementing a program to give birth to all birthless children in the district by coming first October. So there was a long discussion here about children in the district who still haven't been able to meet that need.
Enquires were also held on programs that are being held this year regarding the psych counseling service and the need of a place for counseling in Dharaniyagala as well as the lack of resources for pediatric practical activities.
Kegalle District Parliament Minister, Lawyer Gangani Athuda, the chairman of this unity, after investigating the progress on the subject matters, said that the deployment of women to net financial loan programs are at a highest level in empowering the rural community. The receiving needs to be done. Also showed the district the need to run a basic information file related to women and children and said it should be obtained. Also announced that there is a need to focus on empowering women's unions and increase recruitment of members to those organizations, and repowering inactive women's committees and unions.
In order to implement pre-school under a formal technique implemented by local government institutions, they are also working ahead to get information about the current situation of those preschools and operate information related to children's home in the district under the probation department.
The program was organized by the Women's Division of the District Secretariat.
District Secretary / Deputy President Jagat Herath, Additional District Secretary (Government) Mr. Kusum Bandara and a group of staff officers, local secretaries, government officials related to the children and women sector were gathered at the occasion.
