A
number of schemes for welfare of women are being implemented by the Ministry
for Women and Child Development. The major schemes among these are:
(i)
Working
Women’s Hostel (WWH) Scheme envisages provision of safe and
affordable hostel accommodation to working women, single working women, women
working at places away from their home-towns and for women being trained for
employment. The scheme has been revised
recently.
(ii)
Support
to Training and Employment Programme (STEP) for Women
was launched as a Central Sector Scheme during 1986-87. It aims at making a significant impact on
women by upgrading skills for self and wage employment. The target group includes the marginalized assetless rural women and urban poor. This also includes wage labourers, unpaid
daily workers, female headed households, women headed households and families
below the poverty line.
(iii)
SwadharGreh Scheme - The
Ministry of Women and Child Development had been administering Swadhar Scheme since 2001 for women in difficult
circumstances. Under the Scheme,
temporary accommodation, maintenance and rehabilitative services are provided
to women and girls rendered homeless due to family discord, crime, violence,
mental stress, social ostracism. Another
scheme with similar objectives/target groups namely Short Stay Home (SSH) was
being implemented by Central Social Welfare Board. Being similar in objectives and target
groups, both the schemes have been merged as Swadhar Greh scheme with revised financial parameters.
(iv)
Indira Gandhi Matriva
Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) is
a Conditional Cash Transfer Scheme for pregnant and lactating (P&L) women
to contribute to better enabling environment by providing cash incentives for
improved health and nutrition. The
beneficiaries are paid Rs.4000/- in three instalments per P&L woman between
the second trimester and till the child attains the age of 6 months, on
fulfilling specific conditions.
(v)
National
Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) is an
initiative of the Government of India for empowering women holistically. It is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme sanctioned
in April 2011 and acts as an umbrella Mission with a mandate to strengthen
inter-sectoral convergence and facilitate the process
of coordination of all the women’s welfare and socio-economic development
programmes across Ministries and Departments.
(vi)
Ujjawala is a
comprehensive scheme for prevention of trafficking and rescue, rehabilitation
and reintegration of victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation. Funds are released to NGOs as the scheme is
being implemented mainly through NGOs.
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