Scheme sponsor: Ministry of Women and Child Development
Mode of assistance: Training Assistance
Target group: Marginalized, Assetless Rural Women and Urban Poor.
About the scheme:
In 1986–1987, the Central Sector Program known as the Support to Training & Employment
Programme for Women (STEP) was introduced. Through the improvement of skills for both
wage and self-employment, the STEP program seeks to significantly benefit women. The
planned sequence of activities includes organizing women into viable groups, enhancing their
skill sets, securing access to productive assets and wage employment, establishing a
backward and forward network, enhancing or setting up support services, granting credit
access, raising awareness, gender sensitization, nutrition education, and sensitizing project
staff, among other things. Consequently, STEP promotes an integrated set of interventions
designed to increase women’s productivity and empower them to engage in income-
generating activities.
Assistance pattern:
- Project Staff and Administrative cost
- Training-stipend, Training of Trainers, skill upgradation/ reinforcement
- Training-cum Production Centers and Raw Material for Training.
- Support to members for formation of co-operative societies, producers, workers co- operative, leading to formal legal organizations.
- Support services-Education, General Awareness, health care sanitation, nutrition/ creche facilities for dependent children. Wherever convergences of these services are not available these will be provided as part of the project cost.
- Marketing support- Marketing/Sales personnel, stock provision and buyers’ credit, go downs, marketing outlets, quality control and managerial support.
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICATION:
- Registration Certificate (RC)/Renewal of RC (if applicable)
- Memorandum of Association and Bye-Laws of the Organization
- Attested Copies of Audited Statement of Accounts (for preceding three years)
- Annual Report (for three preceding years)
- Outline Map of the Project Area
- Benchmark survey of intended beneficiaries
- Marketing plan & linkup with financial institutions.
- State Govt. recommendation with minutes of the SLEC meeting.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/women_entrepreneurs.html
APPLICATION FORMAT:
https://wcd.nic.in/sites/default/files/Revised%20schemeof%20STEP_0.pdf