National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) is
an initiative of the Government of India (GOI) for empowering women holistically. It is conceived as an umbrella mission with a
mandate to strengthen inter-sectoral convergence and
facilitate the process of coordinating all the women’s welfare and socio
economic development programmes across ministries and
departments.
The salient features of the National Mission for
Empowerment of Women (NMEW) are:
1.
To ensure economic empowerment of
women.
2.
To ensure that violence against
women is eliminated progressively.
3.
To ensure social empowerment of
women with emphasis on health and education.
4.
To oversee gender mainstreaming of programmes, policies, institutional arrangements and processes of participating Ministries,
Institutions and Organizations.
5.
To undertake awareness generation
as well as advocacy activities to fuel demand for benefits under various schemes and programmes and create, if required, structures at district,
tehsil and village level with the involvement of Panchayats for their fulfillment.
The National Mission Authority (NMA) comprises of
the following:
I.
Hon’ble
Prime Minister
II.
Minister of Finance
III.
Minister of Human Resource Development
IV.
Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation
V.
Minister of Rural Development
VI.
Minister of Panchayati
Raj
VII.
Minister of Agriculture &
Cooperation
VIII. Minister
of Health & Family Welfare
IX.
Minister of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises
X.
Minister of Law & Justice
XI.
Minister of Environment & Forests
XII.
Minister of Labour&
Employment
XIII. Minister
of Social Justice & Empowerment
XIV. Deputy
Chairman, Planning Commission
XV.
MOS(IC), M/o. WCD.
XVI. Chairperson,
National Commission of Women
XVII. Two
Chief Ministers
XVIII. Five
Civil Society Members.
The Mission does not
involve direct delivery of benefits to individual beneficiaries. Funds have
been released for the pilot project in Pali district
in Rajasthan as well as for setting up SRCWs in different States.
The total funds
earmarked for the duration 2010-15 is Rs 14134.53 lakhs.
The BE for the year 2012-13 is Rs 2500.00 lakhs while
the RE for the year 2012-13 is Rs 1100.00 lakhs.
23 State Resource Centres for Women (SRCW) have been established under State
Mission Authority (SMA) in different States/UTs.
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