The National Policy for Women (2016) aims to strengthen preschool education at the Anganwadi centres to improve access to pre-primary education for girl children.
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