SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN

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• SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME FOR
  WOMEN
• (STEP)

MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA
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OVERVIEW

• Administered as Central Sector Scheme since
  1986-87 for economic empowerment of marginalized
  and assetless women
• Aims to provide sustainable livelihood
  opportunities and income generation for rural and
  urban poor women with special focus on SC/ST
  households and families below the poverty line
  though their skill upgradation in identified
  sectors
• Ten identified sectors are Agriculture, Animal
  Husbandry, Dairying, Fisheries, Handlooms,
  Handicrafts, Khadi Village Industries,
  Sericulture, Social Forestry and Wasteland
  Development

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KEY STRATEGIES

• Facilitating mobilization of women in small
  viable groups and upgrading their skill through
  training
• Facilitating adequate backward and forward
  linkages, such as, provision of raw materials,
  marketing tie-ups and access to credit
• Enabling groups of women to take up
  employment-cum-income generation programmes of
  their own
• Provision of support services for improving
  condition of women for access to health care,
  literacy, legal literacy, nutrition
• Thus, an integrated packages of services enables
  women to thrive on a self-sustaining basis with
  minimal Governmental intervention, after the
  project period is over

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REVISION OF SCHEME IN 2009

• Salient Feature of revised scheme
• Introduction of locally appropriate sectors to
  broaden the scope and coverage of the scheme
  (State Governments yet to respond, except Madhya
  Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand and Mizoram)
• Number of beneficiaries may now range from 200 to
  10,000 (against earlier minimum limit of 500)
• Per capita cost enhanced up to Rs. 16,000 against
  the earlier ceiling of Rs. 8,000 in a project
  cycle
• Project duration extended up to 5 years against
  earlier ceiling of 4 years
• Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) included as nodal
  agency for micro-credit needs of women
  beneficiaries

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STATE-WISE NUMBER OF PROJECTS SANCTIONED STATE-WISE NUMBER OF PROJECTS SANCTIONED STATE-WISE NUMBER OF PROJECTS SANCTIONED
STATES NO. OF PROJECTS
1 Andhra Pradesh 15
2 Arunachal Pradesh 2
3 Assam 13
4 Bihar 8
5 Chhattisgarh 2
6 Gujarat 4
7 Himachal Pradesh 5
8 Haryana 5
9 Jammu Kashmir 2
10 Kerala 14
11 Karnataka 13
12 Madhya Pradesh 11
13 Maharashtra 16
14 Manipur 18
15 Meghalaya 1
16 Mizoram 3
17 Nagaland 12
18 Orissa 13
19 Punjab 4
20 Rajasthan 10
21 Sikkim 1
22 Tamil Nadu 4
23 Tripura 4
24 Uttaranchal 14
25 Uttar Pradesh 35
26 West Bengal 12
27 Delhi 1
Total 242
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SECTORS STATES Dairy Piggery Handlooms Agriculture Sheep- Rearing Goatery Handicrafts Total
1 Andhra Pradesh 250 --- --- --- --- --- --- 250
2 Arunachal Pradesh 125 --- --- --- --- --- --- 125
3 Assam 84 250 3360 --- --- 150 -- 3844
4 Gujarat 125 --- --- --- --- --- --- 125
5 Himachal Pradesh --- --- --- 125 --- --- --- 125
6 Haryana --- --- --- --- --- --- 125 125
7 Jammu Kashmir --- --- --- --- --- --- 100 100
8 Kerala 68 --- --- 100 --- --- --- 168
9 Karnataka 3600 --- --- --- 250 125 --- 3975
10 Madhya Pradesh 150 --- --- --- --- --- 100 250
11 Maharashtra 2050 --- --- --- --- 100 --- 2150
12 Manipur --- 300 --- --- --- 100 300 700
13 Nagaland 220 75 --- 75 --- --- --- 370
14 Orissa --- --- --- --- --- 250 250
15 Rajasthan --- --- --- 100 --- --- --- 100
16 Uttaranchal 250 --- --- --- --- 150 --- 400
17 Uttar Pradesh 1200 --- --- --- --- --- 225 1425
18 West Bengal --- --- --- --- --- --- 100 100
Total 8122 625 3360 400 250 875 950 14582
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ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION

• States to play a proactive role in
• Identification of marginalised and assetless
  women and conducting need assessment of the area
• Identifying locally appropriate sectors based on
  stakeholder consultation
• Wider dissemination of revised guidelines of
  scheme
• Enlisting of credible organisations for
  implementation of project under the programme
• State Level Empowered Committee (SLEC) to
  proactively obtain and consider proposals from
  agencies and recommend to GOI for wider coverage
  of programme

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ISSUES FOR CONSIDERATION contd

• Monitoring mechanism for effective implementation
• Timely submission of State Government
  recommendation for release of subsequent
  installment of funds in respect of on-going
  projects
• Reviewing on-going / delayed projects and
  submitting report for their further continuance
  or otherwise
• Explore avenues for convergence of the programme
  with schemes of other Ministries/Departments

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• Thank you