The scheme
“National Mission for Empowerment of Women” is being implemented by the
Ministry of Women and Child Development. It has the mandate to strengthen
inter-sectoral convergence and facilitate the process of coordinating all the
women’s welfare and socio-economic development programmes across Ministries and
Departments.
The economic empowerment of women as envisaged under the NMEW
includes:
I.
Provision of skill training, technology transfer, technical
support and promotion of market linkages.
II.
Giving women access to social programmes and leverage funds for
asset creation, which would reduce drudgery, and give them access to clean
drinking water, fuel and fodder.
III.
Provision of effective delivery system at the state, district and
village level by strengthening delivery system through gender budgeting and
preparation of gender sensitive programmes.
The other initiatives taken by the Mission are as under:
The State Resource Centre for Women
(SRCW) under NMEW provides technical assistance, guidance, mentoring as also
monitoring of the activities related to women. The SRCWs are mostly under State
Women’s Development Organization. The primary objective of SRCW is to work for
holistic empowerment of women in the state cutting across sectors.
Poorna Shakti Kendra’s (PSK) or Women Resource
Centres as one stop centre for services to women were opened in 150 Gram
Panchayats (GPs) to provide a platform/forum for women to come together,
explore their potentials and possibilities, raise women’s awareness about their
contributions to society and their social, economic and political rights, and
facilitate access to schemes and entitlements. The Mission is also implementing
11 thematic convergence projects on various issues affecting women including
declining Child Sex Ratio (CSR), Access to Rights, Access to Sustainable
livelihoods etc. in association with Partner Ministries including Ministry of
Panchayati Raj (MOPR), Ministry of Law and Justice (MOLJ), International
Agencies and Civil Society Organisations (CSO) since 18th August,
2012.
So
far 30 States have started SRCW to achieve empowerment of women and 21 PSKs
are set up in the country. A sum of Rs.520.84 lakhs have been sanctioned for
these SRCWs and Rs.308.98 lakhs have been sanctioned for these PSKs, since the
inception of Mission.
This was stated by Smt. Krishna Tirath,
Minister for Women and Child Development, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha
today.
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