COVER HINDI - Ministry of Women and Child Development

Working Groups on Women Empowerment
for 11 th Five Year Plan 2007-2012
2.51 The Planning Commission vide its order dated 17 th
April 2006 constituted a Working Group on
“Empowerment of Women” for the 11 th Five Year Plan
under the Chairpersonship of Secretary, Ministry of Women
& Child Development with the basic objective to carry
out a review, analysis and evaluation of the existing
provisions/programmes for women and make
recommendations for the Eleventh Five Year Plan.
2.52 The Working Group met on 12 th June 2006 and it
was decided to set up four Sub Groups :
— Engendering Policies and Strategies
— Violence against Women
— Schemes of Empowerment, Advocacy, Awareness
Generation and Support Services for Women
— Women’s Component Plan and Gender Budgeting
2.53 As a part of the plan process, five regional workshops
to cover North, South, East, West and North-East and one
at the National level were held with assistance from UNDP
and UNIFEM to engender the XI Plan were held.
2.54 Based on the Sub Group Reports and the
recommendation that emerged from the Workshops on
Engendering the XI Plan, a draft Working Group Report
was prepared and was placed before the Group in its second
meeting held on 10 th November 2006. Based on the
deliberations of the Working Group, the Report of the
Working Group was finalized. The vision or philosophy
of empowerment for the XI Plan is Inclusive and integrated
economic, social and political empowerment with gender
justice.
Recommendations on the following topics are made in the
working group report :-
— Women and the Economy
— Women and the Law
— Socio economic and Cultural Interventions for
Vulnerable Groups
Smt. Sonia Gandhi accompanied by Smt. Renuka Chowdhury, Minister of State (IC) for Women
& Child Development, Shri Mani Shankar Aiyer, Minister for Panchayati Raj & Smt. Veena Devi,
Sarpanch, waving to the audience at the Ananya Festival on 6 th March, 2007 at National Stadium,
New Delhi
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