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The Department of Women Development was created by redeploying a few officers and staff from the erstwhile Social Security & Welfare Dept. during 2003-04. Initially the Department was named Women Welfare. The name was subsequently changed to \u2018Women Development\u2019 due to a paradigm shift in world and national ideology that women were no longer subjects of welfare but of development.<\/p>\n