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We often came with the news that women in particular region were treated badly, mentally traumatized and uncountable ill treated cases. This scheme is meant to provide temporary accommodation, maintenance and rehabilitative services to those women and girls. Another scheme with the similar objectives namely Swadhar –A Scheme for Women ...
Read More »Assistance to Voluntary Organizations in the field of Child and Women Development
Voluntary organization plays a very important role to help women and child, and provide them social security. To help these organizations, Government of India is providing grant-in-aid scheme to such voluntary organizations. Objective: To prove grants to voluntary organization in the field of Child and Women Development. Eligibility: Voluntary organizations ...
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Read More »Funding Scheme for Construction of Women’s Hostel
With the change in the socio-economic of the country more women are migrating from their homes in search of employment in big cities as well as urban and rural industrial clusters. The difficulties faced by such women is lack of safe and conveniently located accommodation. Seeing this the government of ...
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Role of Police is pivotal in safety and security of citizens in general and women in particular. To increase the visibility of women in the police force, Home Ministry has carried forward the initiative to give 33% reservation to women in police force by implementing it in UTs and propagating ...
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