Under Nai Roshni scheme, which was launched in 2012-13, about 4.35 lakh minority women were trained to empower and enhance confidence by generating awareness about women rights and interventions for ‘Leadership Development’, health and hygiene, legal rights of women, financial literacy, digital literacy, swachch bharat, life skills and advocacy for social and behavioral changes.  

The challenges faced in implementing the schemes related to awareness level among the target group, capacity building of training providers, increasing the scale of the scheme, and its delivery through various stakeholders. Considering the challenges faced in implementation of the scheme and recommendations from various stakeholders, the Nai Roshni scheme has been subsumed under an integrated scheme Pradhan Mantri Virasat Ka Samvardhan (PM VIKAS) which converges five erstwhile skilling and empowerment schemes of the Ministry and inter alia lays emphasis on community-level aspirations and challenges, mainstreaming them and improving the socio-economic conditions through exposure to relevant modern skills. The Leadership and Entrepreneurship sub-component of the PM VIKAS scheme focuses on imparting skill training to minority women for providing them sustainable economic livelihood opportunities and setting up enterprises/ self-employment ventures through inter-alia establishing linkages with financial institutions such as NMDFC, Banks, NBFCs.

This information was given by the Union Minister of Minority & Parliamentary Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

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