Women

Name of the scheme: UGC Post Doctoral Fellowship for Women Candidates Purpose: Main purpose of the fellowship is to help unemployed women candidates pursue advanced studies in the field of research, science, engineering and technology, humanities and social sciences in Indian universities and colleges recognized by the government under Section ...

Name of the scheme: Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship Scheme for Single Girl Child Purpose: Main purpose of this scheme is to support post graduate education of single girl child in non- professional courses. Eligibility: Any single girl child of a family. She has to be the only girl child ...

Name of the scheme: National Scheme of Incentives to Girls for Secondary Education Purpose: The main purpose of this scheme is to promote enrolment of girl child between the age group of 14 and18 years at secondary stage, especially those who passed Class VIII and to encourage the secondary education ...

India’s Universal Immunisation Programme (U.I.P.) is one of the largest in the world in terms of quantities of vaccine used, the number of beneficiaries, the number of Immunisation session organised, the geographical spread and diversity of areas covered. UIP was launched in 1985. Under the UIP, all vaccines are given ...

The central government’s crowd sourcing web platform MyGov.in along with NITI Ayog and the United Nations has yesterday launched a contest to recognize women from different walks of life who have made a contribution for the betterment of the society at large and challenged the stereotypical generalization in different field. ...

Roshni is one of the sub-schemes under ASDP. The Ministry of Rural Development in 2013, launched a new skill development scheme designed to offer employment to tribal youth in critical Left Wing Extremist (LWE) affected districts. These LWE districts are named as ‘Roshni  Districts’ and are 24 in numbers. Roshni will ...

The central government defines women entrepreneurs based on their participation in equity and employment of a business enterprise.  According to a recently conducted Global Entrepreneurialism Report by international bank BNP Paribas, women entrepreneurs are rising in the country.  The survey which was conducted among 2,500 entrepreneurs across 17 markets in ...

News There is no proposal to increase the percentage of women personnel in CAPF upto 33 percent. However, in compliance of recommendations given by Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Women in its sixth report, directions have been issued to all CAPFs to bring percentage of women in the forces to ...

News Maharashtra government has decided to appoint ‘swacchata doots’ or cleanliness ambassadors in every village to help achieve the target of building 56 lakh toilets across the state over the next five years. Half of them will be women and each cleanliness ambassador will be given an annual renumeration of ...

Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao (Save girl child, educate girl child) is a Government of India scheme that aims to generate awareness and improving the efficiency of welfare services meant for women. Prime Minister Modi launched the programme on January 22, 2015 from Panipat, Haryana. The scheme was initiated with an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore. According to ...