The Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) provides financial assistance to Non-Government Organizations for implementation of   the following schemes:

(i)    Short Stay Home

This scheme is designed to help women and girls who are exposed to moral danger, are victims of family discord, emotional disturbance, exploitation, violence etc. The scheme provides temporary accommodation, maintenance, care, counseling and rehabilitation services to the inmates of Short Stay Home. 

(ii)    Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme

This Scheme provides a safe place to the children of working mothers with facilities like supplementary nutrition, pre-primary education and medical facilities etc. The centres are functioning for eight hours in a day.

(iii)    Family Counseling Centre

The Family counseling Centres provide counseling, referral and rehabilitative services to women victims who are in moral danger within the family or society at large including those affected by disputes, marital discord or maladjustment.

(iv)    Condensed Courses of Education for Adult Women

The scheme aims to provide educational opportunities to girls/women above the age of 15 years who could not join mainstream of educational system or who are dropouts from formal school along with additional inputs of skill development/vocational training.

(v)    Awareness Generation Programme

The objective of this programme is to create awareness in the community on issues relating to the status, rights and problems of women.

(vi)    Integrated Scheme for Women's Empowerment (ISWE)

The ISWE is a special package programme for the North Eastern states. The scheme aims at empowerment of marginalized and assetless women by converging the available services and resources through concerted community participation.  

The State-wise list of the number of NGOs sanctioned grant under CSWB schemes for last three years and current year is enclosed is mentioned below.

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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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