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National Mission for Empowerment of Women launched
Honorable President of India, Smt.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil launched National Mission for Empowerment of
Women on March 08, 2010 on the occasion of International Women’s Day
and Stree Shakti Puruskar distribution ceremony for the year 2008 and
2009.
The National Mission for Empowerment of Women has a mandate to achieve
inter-sectoral convergence of all pro-women and women centric
programmes across Ministries. It is an attempt by the Government to put
women’s concerns at the very heart of public policy and governance. The
National Mission will strive to achieve social, economic and legal
empowerment of women by identifying gaps in developmental goals and
setting up of an appropriate institutional framework to overcome
bottlenecks in the process of ensuring coordinated and effective
service delivery to women at the grassroots level. The Mission will
focus on:
• Economic empowerment of women.
• Progressive elimination of violence against
women.
• Social empowerment of women with particular
emphasis on health and education.
• Gender mainstreaming of programmes, policies,
institutional arrangements and processes of participating Ministries,
institutions and organizations.
• Awareness generation as well as advocacy activities
to fuel the demand for benefits under various schemes and programmes at
the grassroots level.
Source: Press Information Bureau
