- Ministry of Women and Child Development has started a centrally sponsored scheme “Mission Vatsalya” i.e. Child Protection Service Scheme from 2009-10 for the welfare and rehabilitation of children.
- Mission Vatsalya aims at ensuring a healthy and happy childhood for every child in India, providing them opportunities to realize their full potential, supporting development in every field, creating such a sensitive, supportive and syncretic ecosystem for them. To establish a system in which their full development takes place.
- Along with this, the States and Union Territories were to provide facilities as per the Juvenile Justice Act 2015 and help in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Mission Vatsalya promotes family-based non-institutional care of children in difficult situations based on the principle of institutionalization of children as a last resort.
- Mission Vatsalya will be implemented as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme in accordance with the prescribed cost sharing ratio between the Center and the State/UT Governments.
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