- Supplementary nutrition to pregnant and lactating mothers.
- Immunization to women.
- Health check – up to women.
- Referral services to women.
- Nutrition and health to mothers and adolescent girls.
Swawlamban Programme:
Swawlamban Programme, previously known as NORAD/Women’s Economic Programme, was launched in 1982-83 with assistance from the Norwegian Agency for Development Corporation (NORAD). NORAD assistance was availed till 1996-97 after which the programme is being run with GOI funds. The objective of the programme is to provide training and skills to women to facilitate them to obtain employment or self employment on sustained basis. The target groups under the scheme are the poor and needy women, women from weaker sections of the society such as Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes etc. In order to ensure more effective implementation and for better monitoring/evaluation of the scheme, it has been transferred to the State governments from 1st April 2006 with the approval of Planning Commission.
Support to Training and Employment Program (STEP):
This program seeks to provide skills and new knowledge to poor and asset less women in the traditional sectors. Under this project, women beneficiaries are organized into viable and cohesive groups or cooperatives. A comprehensive package of services such as health care, elementary education, crèche facility, market linkages, etc. are provided besides access to credit. Skill development is provided in ten traditional skills amongst women. This is a Central Scheme launched in 1987. The scheme is to provide training and skills to women both in traditional and non traditional sectors by integrating with Rashtriya
Mahila Kosh for credit linkages.
Institutional services for destitute, widows, deserted wives through:
- State homes: provide rehabilitation services to those women who are discharged from correctional institutions.
- Service homes: provide rehabilitation to women who are economically and socially deprived.
- Swadhar homes/rescue homes: provide rehabilitation to the women also rescued by the police and also those are facing trails.
- Crèche: day care services are extended to the children of working mothers and also to orphan children. Legal adoption service is also provided through these centers.
Training programmes through:
- State homes.
- Swadhar homes/rescue homes
- Mahila Pranganam.
Support for perusing higher education through:
Full reimbursement of fees/scholarships for SCs/STs/ BC’s /minority/ disabled/ economically poor with annual income of RS 1 lakh and below. 70% reservation for orphans/destitute/in diploma courses.
Balika mandals:
A “balika mandal” is formed with 25-30 adolescent girls in the age group of 11-18 years in a village both with school dropouts and school going girls.
- The girls are attached to local AWC and given awareness on social issues like child marriages, child trafficking and hygiene, health, nutrition.skill development training in home-based activities are provided.
- IFA tablets will be provided to adolescent girl.
- Peer groups education, orientation trainings and age at marriages, registration of marriages, HIV/AIDS, anti – trafficking, iron deficiency disorders, feeding practices etc., is given.
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