NON-FCRA PROJECT: SWADHAR

SCHEME DETAILS:

Scheme Name			:	Swadhar
	Ministry / Department/Organisation		:	Ministry of Women & Child Development
	Goverment		:	Central
Sponsored By
	Sponsored By	:	Central Goverment
	Funding Pattren	:	a) Assistance for purchase of land b) Assistance for construction of building c) Assistance for rented accomodation
	Description	:	Although Indian family as a social institution is well known for the emotional and physical support that it provides to its extended members, many a time it fails to respond to the needs of women, specially for women in difficult circumstance like widows, destitute and deserted women, women ex-prisoners, victims of sexual abuse and crimes, including those trafficked and rescued from brothels, migrant or refugee women who have been rendered homeless due to natural calamities like flood, cyclone, earthquake, mentally challenged women, women victims of terrorist violence etc. Often the support of immediate or extended family are not available due to reasons ranging from economic instability of the family to provide such support to the breakdown of joint family system to the social bias against the marginalized women as also the attitude and value attached to such women. Sometimes society itself drives such women out of the system to lead lives of sub human existence. More often vulnerable women in distress end up as beggars or prostitutes for their own survival and at times for survivals and maintenance of their dependent children. Objectives of the scheme: i)To provide primary need of shelter, food, clothing and care to the marginalized women/girls living in difficult circumstances who are without any social and economic support ii)To provide emotional support and counseling to such women iii)To rehabilitate them socially and economically through education, awareness, skill up gradation and personality development through behavioral training etc. iv) To arrange for specific clinical, legal and other support for women/girls in need of those intervention by linking and networking with other organizations in both Govt. & Non- Govt. sector on case to case basis v)To provide for help line or other facilities to such women in distress and vi)To provide such other services as will be required for the support and rehabilitation to such women in distress (vii) Allocation for this schemes for the 12th five year plan is Rs. 430 Crores and allocation for financial year 2013-14 is Rs. 75 Crores
Beneficiaries
	Beneficiaries	:	Women,Children,
	Benefits	:	Material Benefits,
How to avail
	Eligibility Criteria	:	a. The organisation should be registered under law and must have a properly constituted Managing Body with its powers, duties and responsibilities clearly defined and laid down in its Constitution; b) The organization must not work for the profit of any individual or body of individuals; c) It should ordinarily have three years experience after its registration. d) Its financial position should be sound; e) It should have facilities, resources, experience and personnel to initiate the scheme for which assistance is sought.
	How to avail	:	a)The project proposal complete in all aspects shall be submitted to Joint Secretary, Women Development Bureau b)proposal shall be sanctioned by a Project Sanctioning Committee c)Grants for the construction of the building shall be sanctioned on production of the documents d)Grant for construction of the buildings shall be released in three installments, 50% before the construction is started, 40% when the civil construction is completed and remaining 10% after the construction is over
Validity of the Scheme
	Introduced On	:	01-04-2013
	Valid Upto	:	31-03-2015
Application Invitation Time Frame
	From Date	:	01-03-2014
	To Date	:	31-03-2014