The Ministry of Women and Child Development has been administering the Support to Training and Employment Programme for Women (STEP) as a Central Sector Scheme since 1986-87, to ensure sustainable employment and income generation for marginalized and assetless rural and urban women across the country.
The unique feature of STEP is its integrated package of inputs aiming at holistic development of poor women. The ultimate endeavour of each project is to develop the group to thrive on a self-sustaining basis in the market place with minimal governmental support and intervention even after the project period is over.
Objectives Of The Scheme
- To mobilise women in small viable groups and make facilities available through an access to credit
- To provide for skill upgradation
- To enable groups of women to take up employment-cum-income generation programmes by providing backward and forward linkage
- To provide support services for further improving training and employment conditions for women
Sectors Covered
The Scheme covers 10 traditional sectors of employment:
- Agriculture
- Animal Husbandry
- Dairying
- Fisheries
- Handlooms
- Handicrafts
- Khadi and Village Industries
- Sericulture
- Social Forestry
- Waste Land Development
Target Group
The target group to be covered under the STEP Programme includes the wage labourers, unpaid daily workers, female headed households, migrant labourers, tribal and other dispossessed groups. The beneficiaries under the projects will be poor or assetless marginalised women with special focus on SC/ST households, women headed households and families below poverty line.
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