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Nari Gaurav Niti- Gujarat State Policy For Gender Equity
National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW), an umbrella mission to strengthen
inter-sectoral convergence and facilitate the process of coordination of all the women’s
welfare and socio-economic development programmes across ministries and departments.
The NMEW was launched on 8 March 2010 to ensure economic and social empowerment of
women.
The NMEW is piloting the ‘convergence model’ across the country in 32 select districts with
the aim of bridging the gap between demand and supply of women-related services by
undertaking realistic estimates of the demand, creating greater awareness about womenbased
schemes and programmes of the Government, augmenting the demand for various
services/schemes for women, and connecting them with the service providers.
Under this scheme government has started the first point of contact for woman which is
known as the Poorna Shakti Kendra (PSK).
PSK is the point of focal point action on ground through which the services to grassroots
women would be facilitated. Village coordinators at the Kendras would reach out to the
women with the motto "HUM SUNENGE NAARI KI BAAT".
The model includes introduction of convergence-cum-facilitation centres for women at
district, tehsil/block and village levels. The first such pilot convergence project was launched
in Pali district in Rajasthan on 16 September 2011 with the opening of 150 village-level
centres.
These are the main focus of NMEW: Access to health, drinking water, sanitation and hygiene
facilities for women. It will try to provide all girls especially those belonging to vulnerable
groups in schools from primary to class 12. Higher and Professional education for
girls/women and will ensure the deliverance of Skill development, Micro credit, Vocational
Training, Entrepreneurship, SHG development for women empowerment along with Gender
sensitization and dissemination of information.
NMEW will take steps to prevent crime against women and taking steps for a safe
environment for women in the country.
National Mission for Empowerment of Women has own website
The National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) was launched by the
Government of India on International Women’s Day in 2010 with the aim to strengthen
overall processes that promote all-round development of women
It has the mandate to strengthen the inter-sector convergence; facilitate the process of
coordinating all the women’s welfare and socio-economic development programmes across
ministries and departments. The Mission aims to provide a single window service for all
programmes run by the Government for Women under aegis of various Central Ministries.
In light with its mandate, the Mission has been named Mission Poorna Shakti, implying a
vision for holistic empowerment of women.
The National Resource Centre for Women has been set up which functions as a national
convergence centre for all schemes and programmes for women. It acts as a central
repository of knowledge, information, research and data on all gender related issues and is
the main body servicing the National and State Mission Authority.
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