This document summarizes several national welfare programmes for women in India, presented by Ramanpreet Kaur. It outlines programmes such as the Integrated Child Development Services Scheme (ICDS) which aims to improve nutrition and health for children and mothers, the Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) programme which provides income generation activities for women, and the Janani Suraksha Yojana which provides benefits to pregnant women from below poverty line families. It also discusses schemes like Mahila E-Haat which provides an online marketing platform for women entrepreneurs, and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao which aims to improve services for girls and prevent sex-selective abortion.

1. CLASS PRESENTATION
TOPIC-NATIONAL WELFARE
PROGRAMMES FOR WOMEN
PRESENTED BY - Ramanpreet Kaur
Post basic bsc-1st year
Roll no- 11

2. DEFINITION
• It is a social welfare program which seeks to promote
the welfare of women by giving special attention to
the prevention , eradication in any form , as well as
the promotion of skills of employment and self-
actualization.

3. CONTINUED....
• 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 society.

4. WOMEN WELFARE PROGRAMMES

6. INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT
SERVICES SCHEME (ICDS)
• Launched on 2nd October ,1975,in the ministry of
social and women's welfare.
• Today ICDS scheme represents on of the world’s
largest and most unique programmes for mother
and early childhood development

7. OBJECTIVES
• To improve the nutritional and health status of
children in the age group of 0-6years and
pregnant and lactating mother.
• To lay the foundation for proper physiological
, physical and social development of the child.

8. CONTINUED......
• To reduce the incidence of mortality ,
malnutrition etc.
• To enhance the capability of the mother to look
after the health and nutritional needs of the
child through proper health and nutrition
education.

10. DWCRA
Initiated as a sub-scheme of IRDP(integrated rural
development programme) in September 1982.
To provide income generating activities for women
and provide an organizational support in terms of
receiving system for the assisted women so that they
could become effective recipients of goods and
services available in that area.

11. CONTINUED....
• The rationale behind the programme was that
women’s income is known to have positive
correlation with the nutritional and educational
status of the family.

13. MAHILA SAMRIDHI
YOJANA
• Started on 2nd October,1993.
• OBJECTIVE- To provide economic security to
rural women and to encourage the saving habit
among them.
• Rural women of 18 years and above are assisted
to open their saving account in the post office in
their area.

15. RASHTRIYA MAHILA KOSH
• Was set up in March1993.
• OBJECTIVE- To assist women below poverty
line in undertaking income generating activities
through provision of package of financial and
other services, and encourage promotion of
women SHGs(Self help groups)
• Provides credit for facilitating production and
economic activities.

17. SWADHAR GREH
•AIM – To provide temporary accommodation, maintenance and
rehabilitative services to women and girls rendered homeless due
to crime , voilence , mental stress.
•LAUNCHED: 2002
•OBJECTIVES: To cater to the primary need of shelter , food ,
clothing , medical treatment and care of the women in distress and
who are without any social and economical support.
•To enable them to start their life as fresh with dignity and
conviction.

19. JANANI SURAKSHA
YOJANA
•From 12-April-2005.
•100% centrally sponsored scheme
•Seeks to focus on providing benefits to the pregnant
women of ‘below poverty line’ families and to
encourage anti-natal care, institutional deliveries and
post-partum care.
•Women aged 19 years and above, belonging to BPL
families, are eligible for benefit under this scheme.

20. MAHILA E-HAAT

21. MAHILA E-HAAT
•Launched in 7 March 2016.
AIM- To strengthen financial inclusion of women
entrepreneurs(An entrepreneur is an individual
who creates a new business, bearing most of the
risks and enjoying most of the rewards)in the
economy by providing continuous support to their
creativity.

22. CONTINUED....
• OBJECTIVES – Mahila e-haat is an initiative
for meeting needs of women.
• To providing web-based marketing platform to
women to directly sell their products.

24. BETI BACHAO, BETI
PADHAO
•LAUNCHED ON : 22 January 2015
•AIM - To generate awareness and improve the
efficiency of welfare services meant for girls.
•OBJECTIVES – To prevent sex-selective abortion
• To ensure survival and protection of a girl child.
•To ensure education of the girl child.

26. PRADHAN MANTRI
UJJWALAN YOJANA
• Launched on1-May-2016.
• It aims at providing clean-cooking fuel to poor
households, who are otherwise vulnerable to various
health hazards associated with Indoor air pollution.
• Government had set target to provide deposit free
LPG connections under PMUY to 5 crore BPL.

27. ANOTHERS PROGRAMMES
ARE:-
• WORKING WOMEN'S HOSTEL.
• SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
PROGRAMME(STEP)FOR WOMEN.
• ONE STOP CENTER SCHEME.
• WOMEN HELPLINE SCHEME
• PRADHAN MANTRI MATRU VANDANAYOJANA.
• LADALI LAKSHMI YOJANA.