COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

Ministry of Urban Development
All Urban Development Plans should
— Focus to be on safe housing for women who belong
to socially and economically disadvantaged sections
— Enabling access of women to cheap credit for
income generating activities
— Ensuring of crèches, sanitation and drinking water
facility, electricity and fuel requirements for such
women.
— Providing Health Care Centers and Maternity
Centers for Women, Provision of road side public
toilets which are clean and hygienic for women.
(toilet facilities should have provision for disabled
women).
— Shelters for women in need of protection
— Proper street lighting and transport facilities which
are gender friendly
Ministry of Information Technology
— Sharing and disseminating experiences of pilot
projects undertaken by the Ministry of Information
Technology with regard to Capacity Building,
Entrepreneurship Development, Social and
Economic Empowerment and Mother and Child
Health Care.
— Under the flagship programme of e-governance
kiosks could be allotted to women to be managed
by them for which basic training should be imparted.
— Training of Self Help Groups in software solutions
for capacity building, skill development, etc.
— Developing a CD having information on basic
health, child health, reproductive education and
social issues like rights of women etc. The CDs
should be easy to understand and should be in the
local language serving as a personal private tutor
to the women.
— The Information Communication and Technology
(ICT) tools should be effectively used for generating
awareness. The same can be expanded to include
awareness and knowledge, dissemination on health
education, nutrition, social problems like foeticide,
child marriage, trafficking, HIV/AIDS etc. and
translated into different languages. These could be
disseminated through NGOs.
— Developing simple modules to promote computer
literacy which could be included in the syllabus at
the elementary level.
— A website dedicated to women’s issues on the lines
of Wikipedia could also be developed which will
provide wide ranging information on all social,
economic, cultural, traditional, medical, health,
educational issues for use by women.
— Strengthening existing schemes/projects for nurses,
call center trainees etc Further innovative schemes
on training girls, on network management could also
be promoted.
— Developing packages for collection and compilation
of gender disaggregated data in order to access the
impact of programmes.
Initiatives of Ministry of Information Technology for
gender budgeting and mainstreaming
— A Core Group to take stock of the inventory of the
existing technologies and services, which are
gender oriented and can be disseminated to the
concerned Departments/ Ministries has been set
up. The group will also explore new areas for
technology development which are gender
oriented.
— Under the Banasathali Vidhyapith programme
(launched on a pilot basis) for livelihood
development, the Ministry has undertaken training
of girls and about 30% of them have already set up
IT kiosks
— The Ministry has launched a pilot project for
women empowerment – Gyan Udyog Project
which has been upgraded as the Vanita Project
— A pilot project taken up on computer literacy
programme in schools in the North East Region.
Ministry of Rural Development
— Redefining work norms to involve less of intensive
manual labour for women in terms of work activities,
work timings, duration of work etc under NREGA.
— Identifying semi-skilled activities which are home
based so that existing skills of the women can be
well utilized and she can also take care of her home
simultaneously.
— Developing flexible work norms, tools, work
activities etc. which are gender friendly under wage
employment programmes
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