Lok Sabha Question No. 561 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-09
Subject: Scheme for Single Working Women
Ministry: WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Ramcharan Bohra

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION No.561

TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.12.2022

## SCHEME FOR SINGLE WORKING WOMEN

## 561:   SHRI RAMCHARAN BOHRA:

Will the Minister of WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the schemes introduced or proposed to be introduced to enable the single working women to maintain their families;
- (b) the steps taken by the Government to impart professional/vocational training to such women; and
- (c) the details of professional/ vocational courses being run for such women?

## ANSWER

## MINISTRY OF WOMEN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT (SHRIMATI SMRITI ZUBIN IRANI)

- (a)        Under  the  new  Mission  Shakti  launched  by  the  Ministry,  Working  Women Hostel(WWH) is known as Sakhi Nivas. The scheme is meant to promote availability of safe  and  conveniently  located  accommodation  for  working women, with day  care  facility  for  their  children in urban,  semi  urban,  or  even  rural  areas  where employment  opportunity  for women exist , as  per  local  needs  and  requirement  of  the States/UTs. Under the Scheme, financial assistance is provided for running of Hostel in  rented  premises  for  working  women  who  may  be  single,  widowed,  divorced, separated, married but husband or immediate family does not reside in the same area and for those women who are pursuing higher education and training for job.  Provision of Day Care Centre for children of the residents of the Hostel is an important aspect of the scheme.

(b)&(c) Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has informed that Women Training  under  Directorate  General  of  Training,  Ministry  of  Skill  Development  & Entrepreneurship, takes care of providing skill training to women in the country which aims at stimulation employment opportunities among women of various socio-economic levels and different age groups.

This  is  aimed  to  provide  comprehensive  training  in  both  hands-on  skills  and training methodology to the instructor trainees to make them conversant with techniques of  transferring  hands-on-skilled  manpower  for  the  industry.  Out  of  Network  of  33 National  Skill  Training  Institutes  (NSTIs),  19  NSTIs  are  exclusively  earmarked  for women.

The  NSTIs  for  Women  organize  skill  training  programmes  running  for  current session  (2022-23)  under  Craft  Instructor  Training  Scheme  (CITS)  in  the  following  14 trades:

|   Sl. No. | Name of Courses                         |
|-----------|-----------------------------------------|
|         1 | Architectural Draughtsman               |
|         2 | Computer Aided Embroidery and Designing |
|         3 | Computer Software Application           |
|         4 | Cosmetology                             |
|         5 | Draughtsman Civil                       |
|         6 | Dress Making                            |
|         7 | Electronics Mechanic                    |
|         8 | Fashion Design & Technology             |
|         9 | Information Technology                  |
|        10 | Interior Design and Decoration          |
|        11 | Office Management                       |
|        12 | Secretarial Practice (Hindi)            |
|        13 | Sewing Technology                       |
|        14 | Surface Ornamentation Techniques        |

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