WCD Ministry intends to set up National Women Entrepreneurship Council to promote women entrepreneurs
Saturday - April 1, 2017 12:58 am ,
Category : INDIA
The Ministry of Women & Child Development, Government intends to set up National Women Entrepreneurship Council (NWEC). NWEC will promote entrepreneurship as it would be the umbrella organization for socio-economic gender parity, financial inclusion and economic empowerment of women in India. However, no final decision has been taken as yet.
The existing online e-marketing portal, Mahila E-haat aims at tapping the potential of the women population as also for providing better avenue to markets for selling their products/services, thereby accelerating growth, providing opportunities and expanding India’s reach domestically and also internationally. In addition to above, the Ministry of Women & Child Development is implementing following schemes to ensure economic development of women in the country:
i. Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) to ensure sustainable employment and income generation for marginalized and assets-less rural and urban poor women across the country;
ii. Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) to extend micro-finance services to bring about socio-economic uplift ent of poor women;
iii. National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) to strengthen the overall processes that promote all round development of Women;
iv. Scheme for Adolescent Girls-Sabla for all-round development of adolescent girl of 11-18 years by making them self-reliant by facilitating access to learning, health and nutrition;
v. Working Women Hostels for ensuring safe accommodation for women working away from their place of residence;
vi. Maternity Benefit Programme has been contributing towards better enabling environment by providing cash incentives for improved health and nutrition to pregnant and nursing mothers;
vii. Gender Budgeting has been adopted as a tool for mainstreaming gender perspective at various stages of planning, budgeting, implementation impact assessment and revisiting of policy / programme objectives and allocations;
This information was given by Minister of State for Women & Child Development, Smt Krishna Raj in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today-WTN
The existing online e-marketing portal, Mahila E-haat aims at tapping the potential of the women population as also for providing better avenue to markets for selling their products/services, thereby accelerating growth, providing opportunities and expanding India’s reach domestically and also internationally. In addition to above, the Ministry of Women & Child Development is implementing following schemes to ensure economic development of women in the country:
i. Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) to ensure sustainable employment and income generation for marginalized and assets-less rural and urban poor women across the country;
ii. Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (RMK) to extend micro-finance services to bring about socio-economic uplift ent of poor women;
iii. National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) to strengthen the overall processes that promote all round development of Women;
iv. Scheme for Adolescent Girls-Sabla for all-round development of adolescent girl of 11-18 years by making them self-reliant by facilitating access to learning, health and nutrition;
v. Working Women Hostels for ensuring safe accommodation for women working away from their place of residence;
vi. Maternity Benefit Programme has been contributing towards better enabling environment by providing cash incentives for improved health and nutrition to pregnant and nursing mothers;
vii. Gender Budgeting has been adopted as a tool for mainstreaming gender perspective at various stages of planning, budgeting, implementation impact assessment and revisiting of policy / programme objectives and allocations;
This information was given by Minister of State for Women & Child Development, Smt Krishna Raj in reply to a question in Lok Sabha today-WTN
