“The Schemes and Programmes of Indian Government for the Welfare & Development of Children”

This paper analyses the schemes and programmes of the Indian Government for the Welfare and Development of Children. The Government of India has initiated some really good schemes and programmes for the Welfare and Development of Children. Any developing country of the world cannot prosper if the basic need of the children are not address, met sufficiently and the meeting the adequate standards for them. The nation‘s children are a supremely important asset. Their nurture and solicitude are our responsibility. Children‘s programme should find prominent part in our national plans for the development of human resources, so that our children grow up to become robust citizen, physically fit, mentally alert and morally healthy, endowed with the skills and motivations provided by society. The needs of children and our duties towards them have been expressed in the Constitution. The constitution of India expresses concern for upbringing of children in safe, secure and healthy manner through various provisions in the constitution. The Constitution of India also prohibits any discrimination among people on the grounds of sex. The Government of India has also enacted many laws to protect the rights of Children. Children are our future and our most precious resources. The quality of tomorrow‘s world and its survival will be determined by the well-being, safety and all-round development of the children of today. The future of a nation can be read on the faces of its children. Welfare of the children constitutes the mirror of the future of a nation. It is really great significance that the children should be provided with opportunities and facilities to grow in a healthy and strong manner. The Government of India has introduced various Acts, Policies, Welfare and Development schemes and Programmes to protect the children from exploitations and to give better opportunity to develop children in a healthy and strong way in the society. And it is also important duty of the states to protect and promote the children‘s rights with a view to ensuring full potential developments of their personality and human dignity. Among the children, girl children were badly treated by their parents. In the poor families, parents considered the girl as a liability and the boy as an asset. Girl as a gender was unwanted on the earth. Many poor parents sent their male children to schools and female children to the houses of kitchen to work, because of the gender discrimination in the poor families. Good enough of monitoring, reviewing and reforming of policies, programmes and laws to ensure protection of Children‘s interests and rights in the world.