Organisation : Ministry of Women and Child Development
Scheme Name : Swadhar Greh Scheme
Applicable States/ UTs : All Over India
Home Page : http://wcd.nic.in/
Details Here : https://www.statusin.in/uploads/37055-SwadharGreh-.pdf
WCD Swadhar Greh Scheme
Recognizing the need to prevent women from exploitation and to support their survival and rehabilitation, the scheme of Short Stay Home for women and girls was introduced as a social defense mechanism, by the then Department of Social Welfare in 1969.
Related : WCD Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme : www.statusin.in/36810.html
The scheme is meant to provide temporary accommodation, maintenance and rehabilitative services to women and girls rendered homeless due to family discord, crime, violence, mental stress, social ostracism or are being forced into prostitution and are in moral danger.
Vision
The scheme envisions a supportive institutional framework for women victims of difficult circumstances so that they could lead their life with dignity and conviction. It envisages that shelter, food, clothing, and health as well as economic and social security are assured for such women.
It also envisions that the special needs of these women are properly taken care of and under no circumstances they should be left unattended or abandoned which could lead to their exploitation and desolation.
Objectives
Under the Scheme , Swadhar Greh will be set up in every district with capacity of 30 women with the following objectives :
a) To cater to the primary need of shelter, food, clothing, medical treatment and care of the women in distress and who are without any social and economic support.
b) To enable them to regain their emotional strength that gets hampered due to their encounter with unfortunate circumstances.
c) To provide them with legal aid and guidance to enable them to take steps for their readjustment in family/society.
d) To rehabilitate them economically and emotionally.
e) To act as a support system that understands and meets various requirements of women in distress.
f) To enable them to start their life afresh with dignity and conviction
Strategies
The objectives cited above would be pursued adopting the following strategies :
a) Temporary residential accommodation with the provision of food, clothing, medical facilities etc.
b) Vocational and skill up gradation trainings for economic rehabilitation of such women
c) Counseling, awareness generation and behavioral trainings
d) Legal aid and Guidance
e) Counseling through telephone.
Beneficiaries
The benefit of the component could be availed by women above 18 years of age of the following categories :
a) Women who are deserted and are without any social and economic support;
b) Women survivors of natural disasters who have been rendered homeless and are without any social and economic support;
c) Women prisoners released from jail and are without family, social and economic support;
d) Women victims of domestic violence, family tension or discord, who are made to leave their homes without any means of subsistence and have no special protection from exploitation and/ or facing litigation on account of marital disputes; and
e) Trafficked women/girls rescued or runaway from brothels or other places where they face exploitation and Women affected by HIV/AIDS who do not have any social or economic support.
However such women/ girls should first seek assistance under UJJAWALA Scheme in areas where it is in operation.
Components of the Scheme
a)Construction grant for construction of the building will be admissible to State Governments, Municipal Corporations, Cantonment Boards and Panchayati Raj Institutions only. Land for this purpose is to be provided by the implementing agency free of cost.
b)Rent for Swadhar Greh, if run in a rented building.
c)Assistance for recurring and non recurring expenditure for management of Swadhar Greh
d)Provision for food, shelter, clothing, medical care, pocket expense for residents and childrene)Provision of counseling, legal aid, vocational training and guidance.