:: SWAYAMSIDHA ::


Introduction:

Indira Mahila Yojna was recasted into an Integrated Programme for Women’s Empowerment (IWEP), which was renamed as Swayamsidha. IMY was being implemented in 8 IMY blocks and later GOI sanctioned 5 more blocks under Swayamsidha and now Swayamsidha is being  implemented  in 13 blocks of 6 districts.This scheme was to be implemented upto 2005-06, which has now been expanded upto 2007-08 by Government of India.


Coverage
:

1.        Districts being covered          --             6 Districts.

2.         Blocks sanctioned                --            13 Blocks.

3.         Blocks covered                    --            13 Blocks.

 

:: Names of 8 Erstwhile IMY blocks + 5 new blocks under
    Swayamsidha ::

Erstwhile IMY Blocks 

New Blocks

 District Rewari

Rewari (R )  
Khol  
Jatusana  
Bawal  
Rewari (U)

District Mahendergarh

Ateli

   
District Hisar

Hansi – I
Adampur

 

District Panchkula

Pinjore  
Barwala

   


District Ambala

Ambala (R)  
Barara

 District Yamuna Nagar

Sadhora

 

Vision of Swayamsidha

To develop empowered women who will:

  • Demand their rights from family, community and government
  • Have increased access to, and control over, material, social and political resources.
  • Have enhanced awareness and improved skills.
  • Be able to raise issues of common concern through mobilization and networking.

Objectives

                        With the long term objective being the all-round empowerment of women, especially socially and economically, by ensuring  their direct access to, and control over, resources through a sustained process of mobilization and convergence of all the on-going sectoral programmes, the immediate objectives are as below:

  • Establishment of self-reliant women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs); Women will be encouraged to form groups according to their socio-economic status and felt needs, after which they will network with other groups. In addition to empowering SHG members per se, by federating and networking strong pressure groups for women’s empowerment/rights will be formed.

  • Creation of confidence and awareness among members of SHGs regarding women’s status, health, nutrition, education, sanitation  and hygiene, legal rights, economic up-liftment and other social, economic and political issues;
  • Strengthening  and institutionalizing the savings  habit in rural women and their control over economic resource;
  • Improving access of women to micro-credit
  • Involvement of women in local level planning.
  • Convergence of different agencies for women’s empowerment and integrated projects accessing delivery of different schemes from a single window; and
  • Inculcating a subsidy free approach to women’s empowerment.

Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs)

Child Development Project Officers are the Project Implementing Agencies (PIAs) in Haryana.

 

Achievements under Swayamsidha

      Group formation / Mobilization activities :

        1300 Self Help Groups have been formed under the Scheme, i.e.100 groups per block.

      Village Level Workshops :

                To make the rural population aware of the needs, objectives, aims and methodology of Swayamsidha Scheme.  335   village level workshops have been held.

 

:: Training::

           The SHG members have been imparted different trainings such as, Functional Literacy, Gender sesitization, Legal Literacy, Accounts Keeping training, Self Defence training, Group Dynamics by the NGOs .

The training position is as under:-

 

Sr. No.

Training to be imparted

No. of total batches

No. of batches trained

1.

Accounts Keeping

26

26

2.

Legal Literacy

30

30

3.

Self Defence

11

11

4.

Gender Sensitization

11

11

5.

Group Dynamics

52

52

 

   Workshops for convergence with line Departments :

            One State level Workshop and Six district level workshops in all the Swayamsidha districts have been held.

   Theme Camps :

                   To sensitize the Rural population specially the men folk specialized “Theme Camps” have been organized to give messages on women status, health and reproductive health, falling sex ratio, atrocities against women and other block specific socio economic  issues of the concerned blocks.  243   theme camps have been held in 13 Swayamsidha blocks.  


Budget

          Govt. of India has approved the State Action Plan of Haryana for Rs. 220.60 lac, which includes Rs. 36.00 lac for State Level /District Level expenses and Rs. 184.60 lac for cost of 13 Block Specific Projects.

      All the funds as per approved Action Plan i.e. Rs 220.60 lac have been released by Government of India from 2001-02 to 2006-07 and the entire amount of 
Rs 220,60 lac has been spent till 31.03.07. 

      As the scheme has been extended upto 31.03.08, an Action Plan of Rs 24.35 lac has been sent to GOI  for approval of implementation of the scheme during 2007-08.

:: Progress of the scheme ::

Sr. No.

Description

Cumulative Progress upto 30.06.2007

1.

No. of surviving IMY SHGs

  354

2.

New SHGs formed

  946

3.

Total SHGs

1300

4.

No. of villages covered

668

5.

No. of SHG members

17833

6.

No. of SHGs doing savings

1300

7.

Amount saved (in Rs.)

454,95,032

8.

No. of SHGs doing interloaning

1300

9.

Amount loaned (in Rs.)

418,86,161

10.

No. of members received loan

26160

11.

No. of SHGs having bank accounts

1300

12.

Amount deposited in banks (in Rs.)

2,70,02,170

13.

No. of SHGs availing loan from banks/other sources

577

14.

Amount of loan (in Rs.) from banks

17964797

15.

No. of loan beneficiaries

5851

16.

No. of SHGs doing IGA

1242

17.

No. of SHG members doing IGA

9463

18.

No. of SHGs trained on all basic topics

1300

19.

No. of SHGs trained on some basic topics

1300

20.

No. of SHGs given IGA training

1300

21.

No. of SHG members given IGA training

11794

22.

No. of SHGs trained on social issues

1300

23.

No. of SHGs benefiting from other Govt. schemes through convergence

1300

24.

No. of women covered under study tour

2570

25.

No. of SHGs covered under study tour

767

26.

No. of study tours organized

52

27.

No. of clusters formed

131

28.

No. of SHGs grouped into clusters

1300

29.

No. of Block societies formed

13

30.

No. of Block societies rgistered

13

31.

No. of Blocks in which community asset creation started

13

32.

No. of Blocks in which community asset creation completed

11

33.

Total No. of community assets created

200

34.

Expenditure-Block level

102,05000

35.

Expenditure-State Level

36,00,000

36.

Expenditure-Block level administrative

4,55,000

37.

Expenditure-Community assets

78,00,000

 

Total expenditure

220,60,000

 

    Contact points :

State level Nodal Department

Director Women and Child Development, Department, Haryana,  
 SCO – 360-61, sector – 34 A, Chandigarh

At District level

Programme Officer, District ICDS Cell

At Block level

Child Development Project Officer