Women in Agriculture

Lesson 13 : Programmes for Girl Child -2

Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (Rgseag)

This programme is also called ‘sabla’ scheme. The above two schemes have influenced the lives of adolescent girls to some extent, but have not shown the desired impact. Moreover, the above two schemes had limited financial assistance and coverage besides having similar interventions and catered to more or less the same target groups. A need has therefore, emerged to formulate a new comprehensive scheme with richer content, merging the two schemes that would address the multi-dimensional problems of adolescent girls.

This Scheme is called Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls (RGSEAG) --“SABLA”. It would replace KSY and NPAG in the 200 selected districts. KSY would be continued (where operational) in remaining districts. The Scheme would cover adolescent girls in the age group of 11-18 years under all ICDS projects in selected 200 districts in all the States/UTs in the country. In order to give appropriate attention, the target group would be subdivided into two categories, viz. 11-15 & 15-18 years and interventions planned accordingly.

The Scheme focuses on all out-of-school adolescent girls who would assemble at the Anganwadi Centre as per the time table and frequency decided by the States/UTs. The others, i.e., the school going girls would meet at the AWC at least twice a month and more frequently during vacations/holidays, where they will receive life skill education, nutrition & health education, awareness about other socio-legal issues etc. This will give an opportunity for mixed group interaction between in-school and out-of-school girls, motivating the latter to join school.