National Mission for Empowerment of Women

National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) is an initiative of the Government of India (GOI) for empowering women holistically.  It is conceived as an umbrella mission with a mandate to strengthen inter-sectoral convergence and facilitate the process of coordinating all the women’s welfare and socio economic development programmes across ministries and departments.

The salient features of the National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) are:

1.                  To ensure economic empowerment of women.

2.                  To ensure that violence against women is eliminated progressively.

3.                  To ensure social empowerment of women with emphasis on health and education.

4.                  To oversee gender mainstreaming of programmes, policies, institutional arrangements     and processes of participating Ministries, Institutions and Organizations.

5.                  To undertake awareness generation as well as advocacy activities to fuel demand for   benefits under various schemes and programmes and create, if required, structures at district, tehsil and village level with the involvement of Panchayats for their fulfillment.

The National Mission Authority (NMA) comprises of the following:

I.                   Hon’ble Prime Minister

II.                Minister of Finance

III.             Minister of Human Resource Development

IV.             Minister of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation

V.                Minister of Rural Development

VI.             Minister of Panchayati Raj

VII.          Minister of Agriculture & Cooperation

VIII.       Minister of Health & Family Welfare

IX.             Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

X.                Minister of Law & Justice

XI.             Minister of Environment & Forests

XII.          Minister of Labour& Employment

XIII.       Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment

XIV.       Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

XV.          MOS(IC), M/o. WCD.

XVI.       Chairperson, National Commission of Women

XVII.    Two Chief Ministers

XVIII.    Five Civil Society Members.

The Mission does not involve direct delivery of benefits to individual beneficiaries. Funds have been released for the pilot project in Pali district in Rajasthan as well as for setting up SRCWs in different States.

The total funds earmarked for the duration 2010-15 is Rs 14134.53 lakhs. The BE for the year 2012-13 is Rs 2500.00 lakhs while the RE for the year 2012-13 is Rs 1100.00 lakhs.

23 State Resource Centres for Women (SRCW) have been established under State Mission Authority (SMA) in different States/UTs.