Women Empowerment Programs in India

Can you list me some of the good Women Empowerment Programs or Schemes launched by Government of India in India?

[Shaleen]

Government of India has launched many schemes for Women Empowerment, some of them are as follows:-

1.
Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS), 2009
It helps to monitor the health care department to ensure that all mothers and children have access all the required services and medical care, during pregnancy and delivery.
Also the system maintains a database of all pregnancies registered and all births from 2009, December.

2.
Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana Conditional Maternity Benefit plan (IGMSY-CMB), 2010
It is sponsored by the Central Government for pregnant women age 19 and over for their first two live births.
It provides money to help better health and nutrition of the pregnant women.
The beneficiary gets 4000/- in 3 installments.
No government employee comes under it.

3.
Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls – Sabla (RGSEAG), 2012
It targets adolescent girls of 11 – 18.
It offers a package of benefits for improving their health and nutrition.
It offers many services on central level to help women to become self supporting, to get nutritional supplementation, education, education of health, life skills and various types of vocational training.

4.
SwayamSiddha, 2001
At organizing women into Self-Help Groups to form a strong institutional base

5.
Priyadarshini, 2011
Priyadarshini is a pilot programme for Women Empowerment.
It offers women in seven districts, access to self-help groups and promotion of livelihood opportunities.

6.
Support to Training and Employment Programme (STEP)
The Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched it for developing skills of women for self and employment.
The main targets of it are rural women and urban poor.
It provides funds to help the women and poor.
Funds are released to NGOs and not to the State Governments.

7.
National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW)
The Indian Government has also launched the National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) for comprehensive empowerment of women.
It is a centrally sponsored scheme, coordinating all the women’s welfare and socio-economic development programmes across ministries and departments.
It empowers women socially, economically; erase crime and violence against women, to educate women, establishment of policies and programmes and spreading awareness.