MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, MINISTER OF SCIENCE
AND TECHNOLOGY AND MINISTER OF OCEAN DEVELOPMENT (DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI)
(a) As per the data compiled by the National Crimes Record
Bureau (NCRB), Ministry of Home Affairs, the incidence of
srimes committed against women during the last three years
is as follows:
1999 2000 2001
135771 137472 125152@
@ upto available months.
(b) A Statement is annexed.
(c) The Government had introduced the Constitution (Eighty-
fifth) Amendment Bill, 1999 seeking to provide that as
nearly as one-third of the seats shall be reserved for women
in the House of the People and Legislative Assemblies of
States, in Parliament on 23.12.99. Further course of action
will depend on the decision of the Parliament.
STATEMENT IN RESPECT OF PART(b) OF LOK SABHA UNSTARRED
QUESTION NO.4744 FOR 23.4.2002 REGARDING CRUELTY AND
ATROCITIES ON WOMEN
Details of schemes implemented by the Government of
India for awareness generation and empowerment of women
1. Women Component Plan
The Ninth Five Year Plan has adopted the concept
of the Women Component Plan under which at least 30% of
funds/benefits of concerned Departments/Ministries are
to be earmarked for women.
2. Rural Women’s Development And Empowerment Project
(Swa-Shakti):- The Swa-Shakti Project, earlier
known as Rural Women’s Development and Empowerment
Project, was sanctioned on 16-10-1998 as a Centrally-
sponsored Project for a period of 5 years with an
estimated outlay of Rs.186.21 crore. In addition, an
amount of Rs. 5 crore is being provided during the
project period, for facilitating the setting up, in the
project states, of Revolving Funds for giving interest-
bearing loans to beneficiary groups primarily during
their initial formative stage.
3. Integrated Women’s Empowerment Programme (Swayamsidha)
Swayamsidha is an Integrated scheme for Women’s
empowerment. It is based on formation of women into
Self-Help groups (SHGs) and aims at holistic
empowerment of women through awareness generation,
economic empowerment and convergence of various
schemes.
The vision of Swayamsidha is to mobilize and
develop empowered women who will:
§ Demand their rights from family, community and government.
§ Have increased access to an control over, material, social and political resources;
§ Have enhanced awareness and improved skills; and
§ Be able to raise issues of common concern through mobilization and networking.
4. Women in Difficult Circumstances (Swadhar):-
The scheme has been designed with a flexible and
innovative approach to cater to the requirement of
women in various types of distress in diverse
situations under different conditions. The scheme
provides shelter, counseling and training for women in
difficult circumstances who do not have any social and
economic support.
5. Awareness Generation Projects for Rural & Poor Women:-
The Awareness Generation Programme aims to
identify the needs of rural and poor women and to
generate awareness among them about their status in the
family and society and to activate them to work for
achieving their rights and to deal with social issues.
Since 1993-94, special emphasis has been given to
participation of women in Panchayati Raj institutions
and their role in promoting national integration and
communal harmony.
6. Support to training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP)
This programme launched in 1987, seeks to provide
updated skills and new knowledge to poor and assetless
women in the traditional sectors, such as agriculture,
animal husbandry, dairying, fisheries, handlooms,
handicrafts, khadi and village industries, sericulture,
social forestry and wasteland development for enhancing
their productivity and income generation. This would
enhance and broaden their employment opportunities,
including self-employment and development of
entrepreneurial skills.
7. Women’s Economic Programme (NORAD)
This programme was launched in 1982-83 with
assistance from Norwegian Agency for Development
Corporation (NORAD). Under this programme, financial
assistance is given to Women’s Development
Corporations, Public Sector Corporations, autonomous
bodies and voluntary organisations to train poor women,
mostly in non-traditional trades and to ensure their
employment in these areas.
8. Education Work for Prevention of Atrocities on Women
The scheme of assistance to voluntary
organisations for Education Work for Prevention of
Atrocities on Women was started in 1982. Under this
scheme, universities, colleges, women studies centres,
institutions of higher learning and voluntary
organisations are given financial assistance for
undertaking various activities such as production and
publication of the educative journals, articles, books,
conducting surveys and studies on violence against
women, awards to best films, short plays, short
stories, etc., translation of such material from one
language to another language, holding seminars,
conferences, meetings, exhibitions, film festivals etc.
holding of training camps for social workers including
Govt. functionaries, legal literacy camps/para legal
training camps, use of traditional media such as street
plays, puppetry etc. organising Women Development
Centres in educational institutes and legal and
counselling services to women prisoners etc.
9. Family Counseling Centre
The objective of the Family Counseling Centre
(FCC) Programme implemented by the Central Social
Welfare Board (CSWB) is to provide preventive and
rehabilitative services to women and children who are
victims of atrocities and family mal-adjustments. The
Scheme is being implemented since 1984 through
voluntary agencies. It was evaluated through the
National Institute of Public Cooperation & Child
Development during the year 1990-91 and a revised
scheme is in force since 1992-93. Under the revised
scheme, a maximum of Rs.1 lakh per centre per annum is
given for continuation of existing FCCs while Rs.1.15
lakh is given for new FCCs. The salaries of two
counselors who are either Post graduate in Social Work
or Psychology and Rs.15000/- for recurring items are
borne fully by the CSWB while the institution is
required to contribute 20% towards other recurring
expenditure.
