WOMEN EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES IN INDIA --BANK EXAM TODAY
WOMEN
EMPOWERMENT SCHEMES IN INDIA
1.
BETI PADHAO, BETI BACHAO SCHEME
Aim: To generate awareness and improve the efficiency of welfare
services meant for girls
Launched on: 22 January 2015
Initial
Funding: 100 crore
Objectives:
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To prevent sex-selective abortion
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To ensure survival and protection of a girl child
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To ensure education of the girl child
2.
ONE STOP CENTRE SCHEME
Aim: To provide support and
assistance to women affected by violence both in private and public spaces.
Funds: The Scheme will be funded through Nirbhaya Fund.
Objectives:
·
To provide integrated support and assistance to women affected
by violence, both in private and public spaces under one roof.
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To facilitate immediate emergency and nonemergency
access to a range of services including medical, legal, psychological and
counselling support to fight against any forms of violence against women.
3.
WOMEN HELPLINE SCHEME
Aim: Scheme for Universalization of Women Helpline is meant
to provide 24 hours immediate and
emergency response to women affected by violence.
Launched on: 01 April 2015
Objectives:
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To provide toll-free 24-hours telecom service to women affected
by violence seeking support and information.
·
To help crisis and non-crisis intervention through
referral to the appropriate agencies such as police/Hospitals/Ambulance
services/District Legal Service Authority (DLSA)/Protection Officer (PO).
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To provide information about the appropriate support
services, government schemes available to the woman affected by violence
Call to any of
the following Women Helpline Nos.
Call
to Women's Helpline: 181 Toll free
Call to 1091- Police Helpline, 102 (hospital/Ambulance) & 108 (Emergency
Response Services) Contact to One Stop Centre(OSC)
4
WORKING WOMEN’S HOSTEL (WWH)
Aim: Scheme envisages provision of safe and affordable hostel for
women.
Objective:
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The main objective of the scheme is to promote
availability of safe and conveniently located accommodation for working women
with day care facility for their children wherever possible in urban, semi
urban or even rural areas where employment opportunity for women exist.
5.
SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME (STEP) FOR
WOMEN
Aim: To make a significant impact on women by upgrading
skills. The target group includes the
marginalised asset less rural women and urban poor. This also includes wage
labourers, unpaid daily workers, women headed households and families below
poverty line.
Objectives
·
To mobilise women in small viable groups and make facilities available
through training and access to credits
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To provide training for skill upgrading
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To enable groups of women to take up employment-cum- income
generation programs.
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To provide support for further improving training and
employment conditions of women.
6.
SWADHAR GREH SCHEME
Aim: To provide temporary accommodation, maintenance and
rehabilitative services to women and
girls rendered homeless due to family discord, crime, violence, mental stress,
social ostracism. Another scheme with similar objectives is Short Stay Home
(SSH).
Launched: 2001
Objectives:
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To cater to the primary need of shelter, food, clothing, medical
treatment and care of the women in distress and who are without any social and
economic support.
·
To enable them to regain their emotional strength that
is affected due to their encounter with unfortunate circumstances.
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To provide them with legal aid
and guidance to take steps for their readjustment in family or society. To
rehabilitate them economically and emotionally.
To provide them with legal aid
and guidance to take steps for their readjustment in family or society. To
rehabilitate them economically and emotionally.
·
To enable them to start their life as fresh with dignity
and conviction.
7.
RAJIV GANDHI NATIONAL CRECHE SCHEME
Aim: This scheme is for the children of working mothers to take care
of the children.
Launched: launched in 2012.
·
It was revamped in 2016. T
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The present scheme will provide assistance to NGOs for running
crèches.
Objectives:
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To providing a nursery where babies and young children
are cared for during the working day. Employment of women has resulted in
increased opportunities for their employment and more women are now working
within or outside their homes.
·
Thus the children of these women, who were earlier
getting support from relatives and friends while their mothers were working now
in need of day care services which provide quality care and protection for the
children.
8.
PRADHAN MANTRI MANTRU VANDANA YOJANA
Aim: Scheme ensures safe delivery and good nutrition for
mothers having their first child. Launched:
The scheme was launched in 2010 as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY). It was renamed as Matritva
Sahyog Yojana in 2014 and again as Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY)
in 2017.
Objective: Providing partial compensation for the wage loss in
terms of cash incentive s so that
the woman can take adequate rest before and after delivery of the first living
child. The cash incentive provided would lead to improved health seeking
behaviour amongst the Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers (PW& LM).
9.
MAHILA E-HAAT
Aim: To strengthen financial inclusion of Women Entrepreneurs
in the economy by providing
continues sustenance and support to their creativity.
Objectives:
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Mahila E-Haat is an initiative for meeting needs of women
entrepreneurs.
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This startup Rashtriya Mahila Kosh website leverages
technology for showcasing products made/manufactured/sold by women
entrepreneurs.
10.
MAHILA POLICE VOLUNTEERS
Aim: The Role of Police is pivotal in ensuring the safety and
security of citizens in general and
women in particular.
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To increase the number of women in the police force.
Objectives:
·
An MPV will serve as a public-police interface in order to fight
crime against women.
11.
NATIONAL MISSION FOR EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN (NMEW)
Aim: It is an initiative of the Government of India for empowering
women holistically.
Launched: 15 August 2011
Objective: To strengthen the conceptual and programmatic basis of
women-centric schemes implemented.
Training & Capacity Building to enhance and strengthen understanding of
gender issues, build a Resource Pool (trainers) at the National and State level
to bridge gaps between knowledge and practice will be the other focus area of
NMEW
12.
PRADHAN MANTRI MAHILA SHAKTI KENDRA SCHEME
Aim: To promote community
participation through involvement of Student Volunteers for empowerment of rural women.
Launched: 2017
Objective: The main purpose of this scheme is to enhance women’s
quality of life. Starting from
saving and surviving of girl child, their primary as well as secondary
education and overall quality of life will be improved through the
implementation of this scheme.
13.
RASTRIYA MAHILA KOSH (RMK)
Aim: To provide micro-credit to poor women for various livelihood
support and income
generating activities at concessional terms in a
client-friendly procedure to bring about
their socio-economic
development.
Launched: In March 1993
Objective:
·
To demonstrate and replicate participatory approaches in the
organization of women’s groups for effective utilization of credit resources
leading to self-reliance.
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To promote and support the expansion of entrepreneurship skills
among women.
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To do all such lawful acts & things as may be
necessary or conducive for furthering the objects of the Kosh.
14.
NAND-GHAR YOJANA
enhancement programme for women.
Launched: 24th June 2015
Objective:
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To make Anganwadis as a community center for children and
mothers.
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To provide solar-power system to make them stand-alone
and television for teaching purpose.
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To provide supplementary nutrition to children in the
age group of 0-6 years and to pregnant/lactating mothers with main objective to
fight the problem of malnutrition.
15.
PRADHAN MANTRI UJJWALA YOJANA
Aim: To provide clean fuel to women who are below poverty
line who generally use unclean
cooking fuels that does more harm than good and replace the same with LPG. Launched: In March 2016
Objective:
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Protecting the health of women and empowering them
·
Curbing health issues that result from using fossil fuels and
other fuels for cooking
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Reducing casualties that occur as a result of unclean fuels used
for cooking
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Controlling respiratory issues that occur due to indoor
pollution as a result of using fossil fuel that does not burn cleanly.
16.
MATERNITY BENEFIT PROGRAM
Aim: To provide partial compensation for wage loss to women
during their pregnancy and offers a
cash incentive of Rs 6,000 to mothers for the birth of their first child, has
so far reached 4.8 million beneficiaries.
Launched: 2017
Objective:
·
Promoting appropriate practice, care and institutional service
utilization during pregnancy, delivery and lactation
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Encouraging the women to follow (optimal) nutrition and
feeding practices, including early and Exclusive breastfeeding for the first
six months
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Providing cash incentives for improved health and
nutrition to pregnant and lactating mothers.
17.
SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI YOJANA
Aim: To encourage parents of a girl child order to create a fund for
the future education
and marriage expenses for their child.
Launched: In January 2015
Objective: To ensure the financial independence of women by
encouraging them to invest in a
savings scheme that would enable them to fulfil their long-term life goals and
dreams like higher education, marriage, etc. and ensure financial stability.
18.
ESAMVAD PORTAL
Aim: To provide a platform for NGOs and civil society to
interact with the Ministry on relevant
subjects.
Launched: 2018
Objective: It acts as an interactive portal
allowing NGOs to contact the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development and share their feedback, suggestions,
grievances and their best practices.
19.
NARI WEB PORTAL
Aim: The portal aims to spread information about schemes and
benefits provided by the Government
to women.
Launched: 2018
Objective:
·
To access information on different programmes offered by various
state governments as well as the Centre
·
The portal carries details on 350 different schemes for
women and will be updated from time to time.
20.
SHE-BOX PORTAL
Aim: It aims to provide speedier remedy to women facing sexual
harassment at workplace
Launched: 2018
Objective:
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To report complaints of Sexual Harassment at Workplace
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For prompt disposal of complaints on SHe-Box, each case
goes directly to the central/ state authority concerned having jurisdiction to
take action in the matter.
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