Schemes For Women By Govt Of India

Swadhar 
         A Scheme for Women in Different Circumstances
Objectives of this scheme is to provide,

• Primary need of shelter, food, clothing and care to the marginalized women/girls living in difficult circumstances who are without any social and economic support;
• Emotional support and counselling to rehabilitate them socially and economically through education, awareness etc.;
• Help line or other facilities to such women in distress.
• Arrange for specific clinical, legal and other support for women/girls in need; and

Target Group/Beneficiaries

• Widows deserted by their families and relatives;
• Women prisoners released from jail and without family support;
• Women survivors of natural disaster who have been rendered homeless;
• Trafficked women/girls rescued or runaway from brothels
• Women victims of terrorist/extremist violence who are without any family support and without any economic means for survival;
• Mentally challenged women (except for the psychotic categories   who require care in specialized environment in mental hospitals) who are without any support of family or relatives.
• Women with HIV/AIDS deserted by their family and without social/economic support.

Ujjawala
Why this scheme?

• Trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation is an organized crime that violates basic human rights. 
• India has emerged as a source, destination and transit for both in-country and cross border trafficking. 
• The problem of trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation is especially challenging due to its myriad complexities and variation. 
• Poverty, low status of women, lack of a protective environment etc are some of the causes for trafficking.

Objectives of this scheme are to,

• Prevent trafficking of women and children for commercial sexual exploitation through  social mobilization and involvement of local communities, awareness generation programmes, generate public discourse through workshops/seminars and such events and any other innovative activity.
• Provide rehabilitation services both immediate and long-term to the victims by providing basic amenities/needs such as shelter, food, clothing, medical treatment including counselling, legal aid and guidance and vocational training.
• Facilitate rescue of victims from the place of their exploitation and place them in safe custody.
• Facilitate reintegration of the victims into the family and society at large
• Facilitate repatriation of cross-border victims to their country of origin.

Target Group are women & children who are,

• Vulnerable to trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.
• Victims of trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation

Working Women Hostel (WWH)

• Financial assistance is provided for construction/ running of Hostel in rented premises for those working women.
• They may be single, widowed, divorced, separated, married but whose husband or immediate family does not reside in the same area and for those women who are under training for job. 
• Provision of day care centre for children of the inmates of the Hostel is also covered.
• Working Women are entitled to hostel facilities provided their gross income does not exceed Rs. 30,000/- (gross) per month in metropolitan cities, or Rs. 25,000/- consolidated (gross) per month, in any other place. 
• When the income of any working women already residing in a hostel exceeds the prescribed limits, she will be required to vacate the hostel within a period of two months of crossing the income limit.

Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme
Why this scheme? 

• Increased opportunities for employment for women.
• To supplement household income, more and more women are entering the job market. 
• Due to breaking up of joint family system and the increased phenomenon of nuclear families, working women need support in terms of quality, substitute care for their young children while they are at work. 
• Creche and day care services are not only required by working mothers but also women belonging to poor families, who require support and relief for childcare as they struggle to cope with burden of activities, within and outside the home.

What does this scheme provide?

• Provides assistance to NGOs for running creches for infants (0-6 years). 
• Assistance is provided to ensure sleeping facilities, health-care, supplementary nutrition, immunization etc., for running a crèche for 25 infants for eight hours i.e. from 9.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.

Women Empowerment and Livelihood Programme in Mid Gangetic Plain-‘PRIYADARSHINI’

It is a pilot project by Ministry of Women & Child Development.

Aim

• Holistic empowerment (economic and social) of vulnerable groups of women and adolescent girls in the project area through formation of Women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) and promotion of improved livelihood opportunities. 

Other aspects

• Though the focus of project is on livelihood enhancement, the beneficiaries will be empowered to address their, political, legal and health problems issues through rigorous capacity building.
• The programme envisages giving training to the SHG members on topics such as income generation and allied activities, marketing of products and social issues etc.
• The National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is the lead programme agency for the implementation. 

Sabla- ‘Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG)
Aim

• All-round development of adolescent girls of 11-18 years (with a focus on out of school girls).

SABLA scheme replaced the erstwhile Kishori Shakti Yojana & Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls
Objective of Kishori Shakti Yojana 

• To improve the nutrition and health status of girls in the age-group of 11 to 18 years.
• Equip them to improve and upgrade their home-based and vocational skills.
• To promote their overall development, including awareness about their health, personal hygiene, nutrition and family welfare and management.

Nutrition Programme for Adolescent Girls

• 6 kg of free food grain per beneficiary per month was given to undernourished adolescent girls.

Components

• Two major components of this scheme are Nutrition and Non Nutrition Component. 
• Nutrition component aims at improving the health & nutrition status of the adolescent girls.
• Non-nutrition component addresses the developmental needs including  IFA supplementation, health check-up & referral services, nutrition & health education, ARSH counselling /guidance on family welfare, life skill education, guidance on accessing public services and vocational training (only 16-18 year old adolescent girls).

National Mission for Empowerment of Women

Why this mission?

• The extent of empowerment of women from a holistic and macro-point of view is largely determined by 3 factors viz. economic, social and political identity. 
• These factors are deeply intertwined and linked with many cross cutting linkages. 
• It implies that if efforts in any one dimension remains absent or weak, the outcome and momentum generated by the other components cannot be sustained. 
• It is only when all these three factors are addressed simultaneously and made compatible with each other can women be truly empowered. 
• Therefore, for the holistic empowerment of women, an inter-sectoral approach has to be adopted. 
• The vision for socio-economic empowerment of women is to empower women economically and socially to end exploitation and discrimination enabling them to develop their full potential to be active participants in nation building, sharing the benefits of economic growth and prosperity. 
• To achieve this vision, the National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) was launched.

Objectives of this mission are to ensure,

• Economic empowerment of women,
• Violence against women is eliminated progressively,
• Empowerment of women with emphasis on health and education,
• Oversee gender mainstreaming of programmes, policies, institutional arrangements and processes of participating Ministries, institutions and organizations, and
• Undertake awareness generation as well as advocacy activities to fuel the demand for benefits under various schemes and programmes and create, if required, structures at district, tehsil and village level with the involvement of Panchayats foe their fulfilment.
• National Resource Centre for Women (NRCW) 
• It had been set up with eight functional domains, namely, Poverty Alleviation, Social Empowerment, Health and Nutrition, Gender Budgeting, Gender Rights, Vulnerable and Marginalised Groups, Media and Communication and Information Technology.
• It acts as a technical secretariat that deals with various critical issues related to women and facilitates inter-sectoral convergence across different Ministries. 
• It also provides technical support to the State Resource Centres for Women (SRCW) constituted in different States as part of the Mission.
• It had also anchored the process of preparation and development of the National Plan of Action (NPoA) for improving child sex ratio which included organizing a series of Consultations nationwide, facilitation & preparation for the working group meetings, preparation of agenda/presentations/reports/minutes etc.

Ahimsa Messenger 

• Programme to combat violence against women.
• The programme targets both men and women, including youths, to address and eliminate all forms of violence against women and children at grassroots and facilitate social/community mobilisation to fight social evils. 
• Ahimsa Messengers would also serve as link workers in case of any violence and also facilitate the women to approach the concerned authorities in case of incidences of violence for suitable redressal and follow up on the case.
• A unique feature of this programme is that adolescent boys have also been made an integral part of this programme.