Programme and Schematic Intervention

  • Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS) aims at building a protective environment for children in difficult circumstances.
  • Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) for pregnant and lactating women to improve their health and nutrition status.
  • Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), implemented with the objective of reducing Maternal and Infant Mortality.
  • Sabla scheme aims at the empowerment of adolescent girls in the age group of 11-18 years.
  • Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhayamik Siksha Abhiyan (RMSA) schemes are being implemented to universalise elementary and secondary education respectively, have a strong focus on improving enrolment and retention of girls.
  • Support to Training & Employment programme for Women (STEP) scheme aims to ensure sustainable employment and income generation for marginalized and asset-less rural and urban women.
  • Ujjawala scheme is implemented for prevention of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
  • Swadhar scheme is catering to the needs of women in distress.
  • The Union Budget in 2013 made provision for a corpus called Nirbhaya Fund. This is to support initiatives towards protecting the dignity and ensuring safety of women in India. The fund is administered by Ministry of Finance.
  • The Government of India has recently initiated a programme called Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (BBBP) for survival, protection & education of girl child. The programme aims to address the issue of decline in Child Sex Ratio (CSR) through a mass campaign across the country targeted at changing societal mindset & creating awareness about the criticality of the issue, and focussed intervention & multi-sectoral action in 100 districts with low CSR. While the overall goal of the programme is to “Celebrate the Girl Child & Enable her Education”, the objectives would be to (i) Prevent gender biased sex selective elimination; (ii) Ensure survival & protection of the girl child and (iii) Ensure education of the girl child.

Emerging Priorities Identified by the 12th Plan

The key elements for Gender Equity to be addressed in the Twelfth Five Year Plan were:

Economic Empowerment: a. Employment generation with equity in work conditions, b. Skill development, c. Special promotion of enterprises of home-based workers/small producers, d. Women in agriculture, manufacturing, unorganized sector

Social and Physical Infrastructure: a. Health, b. Education, c. Sanitation, d. Transportation, e. Energy and natural resources management, f. Urban planning and livelihoods, g. Climate change, h. Engendering the media

Enabling Legislations: a. The Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques ACT (PC-PNDT Act), b. Maternity Benefit Act, c. Equal Remuneration Act, 1976, d. Improving Implementation of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA) and Dowry Prohibition Act (DPA)

Women’s Participation in Governance: a. Women in Panchayats, b. Women in Urban Bodies, c. Women in Legislative Bodies

Inclusiveness of all categories of vulnerable women: a. Scheduled caste women, b. Scheduled tribe women, c. Differently-abled women, d. Women of religious minorities, e. Single women and widows, f. Elderly women, g. Women affected with HIV/aids, h. Migrant workers, i. Women in disturbed areas, j. Trafficked women, k. Women in prison, l. Transgender communities

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