OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM |
The program of STEP advocates the objectives of extending training for upgradation
of skills and sustainable employment for women through a variety of
action-oriented projects, which employ women in large number.
The scheme covers 8 traditional sectors of employment. Dairying and Animal Husbandry is one such sector, which gives sustainable employment and income.
The STEP program is implemented with 90% financial assistance from Government of India's Human Resource Development Division, Women and Child Development Department. And 10% contribution should be made by the implementing agencies.
The program of STEP aims to make a significant impact on women in traditional sectors (dairying & animal husbandry) by upgrading skills and providing employment to women on a project basis by mobilizing women in viable groups, improving skills, arranging for productive assets
(milch animals), creating forward and backward linkages, improving/ arranging support services, providing access to credit, awareness
generation, gender sensitization, nutrition education, sensitization
of project functionaries.
Thus STEP advocates an integrated package of inputs aiming at the integrated development
of poor women in traditional sector, to enable them economically more viable, independent and raise their
socio-economic status
The main developmental objective is the organization of the Women DCS in rural areas by mobilizing women viable groups and generating self-employment opportunities
and to take up dairying as their occupation.
The target group to be covered under STEP program include marginalized assetless rural women and urban poor. This includes wage laborer, unpaid daily worker, female headed house-holds, migrant tribal and other dispossessed group
The
Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Women and Child Development, Government of India has sanctioned 3 STEP Projects each having 3 year duration for implementation in Karnataka. The financial outlay is as follows:
Name of the
Project |
Duration of the
Project |
No. of T.G Mem. |
Amount Sanctioned |
STEP
Proj-I |
1997-2000
Est. 400 WDCS |
Zone-I 10,000
Zone-II 10,000 |
494.93 lakhs
494.93 lakhs |
STEP Proj-II |
2001-2004
Est. 200 WDCS |
10,000 |
796.60 lakhs |
STEP
Proj-III |
2002-2005
Est. 200 WDCS |
10,000 |
619.70 lakhs |
The project
area covers all the 27 districts of Karnataka State coming under the jurisdiction of 13 District Milk Unions under the project area of KMF.
Training and Education Programme
: |
a |
Women Secretary
Training |
b |
Milk Testers
Training |
c |
Women
Management Committee Members Training |
d |
A.I Workers
Training |
e |
First Aid Worker Training |
f |
Animal Husbandry and Dairy
management Training
Programme |
g |
Chair Persons
Orientation |
AWARENESS
PROGRAM : |
a |
Health &
Nutrition |
b |
Gender
Sensitization |
c |
Legal
Literacy |
The ultimate objective of the project is to develop women group to be self-reliant on self-sustaining basis with the minimal
Government support and intervention after the project period is over.
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