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Resources and stakeholders Theme within a year with a resolution or 'Sankalp’.
Panchayat will work on other Targets also but the Sankalp
Financial and Human resources under department of Health
taken will be the focus area for that year. For illustration GP
& Family welfare, Women and Child Development,
can take Sankalp to achieve all targets of Child survival
Education with the available resources of Gram Panchayat
under Child Friendly Village in a year and to sustain it for
are taken into account to reach up to the Targets of child
the coming years. Likewise, at an indicator level under child
friendly Panchayat/Village. Time to time common Capacity
friendly village GP may take a Sankalp to achieve that there
building programmes for the key stakeholders like ASHA,
will be no class 5th drop out child in the GP.
Anganwadi workers, ERs of GP, ANM, teachers, VLCPC
members, functionaries of GP, members of VHNSCs, SMCs Actions required
and PTA, are necessary to develop their understanding in a
To achieve the targets (‘Sankalp’) under Child Friendly
same line. RGSA Funds can also be utilized for special
Theme, Gram Panchayat has to take different actions and
training for Gram Panchayat members on needs of children,
devise a process and plan on how it will go about to achieve
Rights of Child, mental health issues in children and
the Sankalp, may take help of concern department, NGOs,
Pregnant women, Parenting, PCPNDT Act, role of VHNSC,
and others. Panchayat can take a special initiative to obtain
POCSO Act , Birth Registration, Adoption. issues like child
the Target.
marriage, trafficking etc. so that the Gram Panchayat
members can educate Gram Sabha members and be vigilant To achieve no drop out or out of school child status, GP may
on these issues. proceed with these steps-

Planning a time frame Process Actions

Time Frame should be fixed by the GP, can be matching  Collection of data of all children up to 18 years with
according to the NIF, SIF and DIF, but according to the their date of birth and highest educational qualification,
priority indicators. Gram Panchayat may take a Sankalp to  Match the data with the teachers’ data collected for
bring negative Indicators Targets value up to zero and
United District Education System for Education
positive Indicators Target Value more than the NIF as per its
(UDISE+),
priorities and resolutions. For example a Gram Panchayat
wants to achieve that no anemia, stunting, wasting and  One to one discussion with the children and their parents
underweight cases will be there in 0-5years age group with the help of teachers,
children in the Gram Panchayat by 2025. The GP has to  Identifying special needs and accordingly the bridge
work on the health of pregnant and lactating mothers,
courses/special educators,
infants, 0-5 years children with the help of ICDS and
Department of health.  Liaison with schools /open schools and assuring their
enrollment.
For planning the time frame most important is that Targets
directly taken from NIF will be set to achieved as per the Programme Actions/ Activities
NIF timeline or before that and others not beyond 2030. It
Collection of data of all children up to 18 years with their
would be different for different GPs. However, when taking
date of birth and highest educational qualification,
the sum total of all GPs, the targets set can be seen.
Taking actions on the decided process is the Sankalp.
Connect to Sankalp Assistance from already existing programmes can accelerate

Panchayats may choose to achieve specific Indicators, the process towards achievement. For the above example
Group of Indicators, Targets, whole Theme or part of a

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