Women and Child Development Ministry reviews Special Campaign 6, sets 30 October deadline for pending complaints

The Ministry of Women and Child Development reviewed the progress of Special Campaign 6 in a video conference on 26 October 2026. The meeting was chaired by the Secretary of the ministry and began at 5 pm. It was attended by additional secretaries, joint secretaries, directors and deputy secretaries dealing with the ministry’s schemes, along with 109 officials from states and union territories.

What Special Campaign 6 is

The campaign is being held from 2 October to 31 October 2026 across all autonomous and statutory bodies under the ministry’s administrative control. Its aim is to improve cleanliness and settle pending references and complaints. The ministry has finalised work plans and targets for it.

What states have been asked to do

The ministry has asked states and union territories to carry out three activities every day. First, run cleanliness drives at field-level institutions. Second, ensure effective public grievance redressal and hold grievance redressal chaupals or e-chaupals. Third, document the work done and upload it on the ministry’s mission portals.

The 30 October programme

States have been asked to hold a dedicated one-day special programme on 30 October 2026. On that day, these activities are to be carried out on a wider scale with the active participation of field workers and the community.

Directions given by the Secretary

The Secretary directed all states and union territories to instruct their officials to work in all field institutions and upload the details on the mission portals. She also advised them to publish and share infographics and tweets showing daily activities through the state government’s social media handles, tagging the ministry’s official handles.

Clearing pending complaints

The Secretary urged states to hold grievance redressal chaupals or e-chaupals and ensure that all complaints pending on the Poshan Tracker, PMMVY and CPGRAMS portals are resolved at a fast pace by 30 October 2026. Poshan Tracker is a portal for nutrition monitoring, PMMVY is a maternity benefit scheme, and CPGRAMS is the government’s online grievance portal.

What this means for ordinary people

This release is mainly meant for officials, so ordinary citizens do not have to file any new application. But those whose complaints are pending on these portals can take heart that their cases may be settled sooner. For more help, people can contact their district Women and Child Development office or the concerned portal.