FRAMEWORKS MANUAL - Tribal Development Department

Frameworks Manual of Development Support Agency of Gujarat
2. Extension of Chiranjivi Yojana to APL ST families;
3. Providing LPG Connection, tap water connection till the kitchen level and
electrification of every ST household; and
4. Arranging SATCOM based tutorials in English, Mathematics and Science for
school going girls.
B. MEASURES TO ENCOURAGE ACCESS TO PROJECTS:
Due to low literacy rate among women and various social barriers, women have low
accesses to the government projects. Under Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana, special efforts
should be made to ensure at least 50 % participation of women. For this purpose-
1. Women headed households will be covered during the beginning of every
project;
2. Every Project will have a separate component for capacity building of
participating women to ensure equitable participation of women. This shall
also include measures for their capacity building, awareness raising, and
development of gender sensitive training modules and sensitization of men
folks;
3. Project implementers right till the grass roots level will have to undertake
gender sensitization course to appreciate the differential needs and
expectations of women;
4. At least 50% participants in Wadi Projects and 80% in Integrated Dairy
Development Projects will be women, irrespective of their land ownership;
5. Access to Credit through BPL Cards: In order to ensure that women are able to
draw credit according to their needs through BPL cards, a project for this
purpose will be developed; and
6. Widows belonging to BPL category will be extended credit from GTDC at a
rate which will be 0.5% lower than prevailing rates.
C. MEASURES TO ENSURE CONTROL TO THE ASSET CREATED
THROUGH THE PROJECT:
It is seen that women have lesser control on the assets built up through development
projects. Livelihood promotion projects under this programme will encourage at least
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