The National Policy for Women (2016) aims to prioritise attention to other health problems of women including communicable and non-communicable diseases like cancer, cardiovascular diseases, HIV/AIDS.
Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India
The draft was submitted in July 2017 and is since awaiting the Union Government’s sanction.
The draft follows the National Policy for the Empowerment of Women (NPEW) that was formulated a decade and a half ago (2001), that laid down comprehensive policy for the advancement, development and empowerment of women with appropriate policy prescriptions and strategies