2. DEFINITION
• Women Empowerment refers to the creation of an environment
for women where they can make decisions of their own for their
personal benefits as well as for the society.
3. PROVIDES.....
• freely live their life with a sense of self - worth, respect and dignity,
• have complete control of their life, both within and outside of their home and workplace,
• to make their own choices and decisions,have equal rights to participate in social, religious and public
activities,
• have equal social status in the society,
• have equal rights for social and economic justice,
• determine financial and economic choices,
• get equal opportunity for education,
• get equal employment opportunity without any gender bias,
• get safe and comfortable working environment
4. BARRIERS FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT
• Men based society
• People with orthodox mentality
• Feeling of discrimination between girls and boys
• Tough and hard life style of girls and womenUnsafe and
uncomfortable outside environment for women
• Pressure or load of responsibilities of all family members on
women only.
5. SCHEMES AND PROGRAMMES
• Increasing target of Ujwala scheme for free LPG connection from 50 to 80 million poor women
• LPG connection in the name of women member of the Poor householdThis protect health of poor women from
pollution happening because of the use of biomass fuels.
• Universal coverage of cooking gas can be achievedGovt. will spend 160 billion on PM’s Saubhagya Yojana for
electricity to all households.
• 75 crore for Nirbhaya fundLoan up to Rs. 75,000 to Women SHG’s until March 2019.
• New Gold Polity, by which women can earn an interest of 2.25% to 2.5% on deposit of their gold in the bank
• Women contribution decreased to 8% from 12% in EPF, without changing employer’s contribution
• Six Months maternity leave approved for all pregnant women including the ones who have child through surrogacy
• Rs. 24 crores allocated to National Women’s Commission20 million new toilets under Swachh Bharat mission which
will help women’s dignity and overall health of a family
• Rs. 280 crores sanction for “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” which has a sub scheme – Sukanya Samridhi Yojana for a girl
child. It will help in meeting the education and Marriage expenses of the girl child
6. CONTINUED.......
• Beti Bachao,Beti Padho Scheme
• One Stop Centre Scheme
• Women Helpline Scheme
• Ujjawala
• Swadhar GrehNari
• Shakti Puraskar and Stree Shakti Puraskar
• Mahila Shakti Kendras
• Nirbhaya
• Mahila Police Volunteers
• Mahila E-Haat
