The National Policy for Women (2016) aims to prioritise enrolment and retention of adolescent girls by implementing functional girls’ toilets and higher recruitment of female teachers.
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