WCD Ministry intends to set up National Women Entrepreneurship Council to promote women entrepreneurs

WCD Ministry intends to set up National Women Entrepreneurship Council to promote women entrepreneurs

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.