Woman Empowerment in India

1. Amiyaa Sengupta
XI Humanities
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2. Women empowerment, referring to the
empowerment of women in society, has
become a significant topic of discussion in
regards to development and economics. It can
also point to approaches regarding other
marginalized genders in a particular political
or social context.
While often interchangeably used, the more
comprehensive concept of Gender
empowerment refers to people of any gender,
stressing the distinction between biological
sex and gender as a role. It thereby also refers
to other marginalized genders in a particular
political or social context.

3. Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS)
The Mother and Child Tracking System, launched in 2009, helps monitor the health care
system to ensure that all mothers and their children have access to a range of services,
including pregnancy care, medical care during delivery, and immunizations. The system
consists of a database of all pregnancies registered at health care facilities since 1
December 2009, and all births since 1 December 2009.
The Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana Conditional Maternity Benefit plan
(CMB)
Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY), Conditional Maternity Benefit (CMB) is a
scheme sponsored by the national government for pregnant and lactating women age 19
and over for their first two live births. The programme, which began in October 2010,
provides money to help ensure the good health and nutrition of the recipients. As of March
2013 the programme is being offered in 53 districts around the country.
Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls – Sabla
The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls – Sabla is an initiative
launched in 2012 that targets adolescent girls. The scheme offers a package of benefits
to at-risk girls between the ages of 10 and 19. It is being offered initially as a pilot
programme in 200 districts. The programme offers a variety of services to help young
women become self-reliant, including nutritional supplementation and education, health
education and services, and life skills and vocational training.
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh
Rashtriya Mahila Kosh (The National Credit Fund for Women) was created by the
Government of India in 1993. Its purpose is to provide lower income women with access
to loans to begin small businesses.
Priyadarshini
Priyadarshini, initiated in April 2011, is a programme that offers women in seven districts
access to self-help groups

4. Before and after Independence, India has been taking active steps towards women's
status and education. The 86th Constitutional Amendment Act, 2002, has been a path
breaking step towards the growth of education, especially for females. According to this
act, elementary education is a fundamental right for children between the ages of 6 and
14. The government has undertaken to provide this education free of cost and make it
compulsory for those in that age group. This undertaking is more widely known as Sarva
Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA).
Since then, the SSA has come up with many schemes for inclusive as well as exclusive
growth of Indian education as a whole, including schemes to help foster the growth of
female education.
The major schemes are the following:
Mahila Samakhya Programme: This programme was launched in 1988 as a result of
the New Education Policy (1968). It was created for the empowerment of women from
rural areas especially socially and economically marginalized groups. When the SSA
was formed, it initially set up a committee to look into this programme, how it was
working and recommend new changes that could be made.[
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme(KGBV): This scheme was launched in
July, 2004, to provide education to girls at primary level. It is primarily for the
underprivileged and rural areas where literacy level for females is very low. The schools
that were set up have 100% reservation: 75% for backward class and 25% for BPL
(below Poverty line) females.
National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL): This
programme was launched in July, 2003. It was an incentive to reach out to the girls who
the SSA was not able to reach through other schemes. The SSA called out to the
"hardest to reach girls". This scheme has covered 24 states in India. Under the
NPEGEL, "model schools" have been set up to provide better opportunities to girls.[
One notable success came in 2013, when the first two girls ever scored in the top 10
ranks of the entrance exam to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).[Sibbala Leena
Madhuri ranked eighth, and Aditi Laddha ranked sixth

5. BETI BACHAO BETI PADHAO
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is a Government of
India scheme that aims to generate awareness
and improving the efficiency of welfare
services meant for women. It was introduced
on 22nd January 2015 by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi from Panipat,Haryana.

6. Aung San Suu Kyi (1945– ), a Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and scholar living under house arrest
and many other restrictions imposed by her
native Burma’s (Myanmar’s) military rulers,
leads a popular political movement and party
whose non-violence and civil disobedience offer
hope for eventual democratic government.

7. Indeed a woman is dependent on most
matters of life. She is strong enough to fight,
capable enough for social political and all
other responsibilities, intelligent enough to
handle life and take major decisions for both
herself and for others,caring enough for her
family nd the needy and lastly she is
beautiful too –not only by appearance but by
characteristics and others ways.

8. Women play a vital role in a country’s
development. They are daughters supporting
fathers just after birth, then wife to man
serving him in all possible ways, mother to
child(ren),main household worker at home
and responsible workman at her workplace
too. In short she is an asset to the society. She
is sufficient economically, decision making
matters and almost all possible spheres of life
possible. So Empowering Women is a good
cause for all.