Introduction

It is a scheme in mission mode aimed at strengthening interventions for women safety, security, and empowerment. It seeks to realise the Government‟s commitment for "women-led development‟ by addressing issues affecting women on a life-cycle continuum basis and by making them equal partners in nation-building through convergence and citizen-ownership. It seeks to focus on proposing strategies for improving convergence across Ministries/Departments and at different levels of governance. It also seeks to promote greater participation and support of Panchayats and other local level governance bodies, apart from strengthening digital infrastructure support, last mile tracking and Jan Sahabhagita.

Objective of Mission Shakti

• Provide immediate and comprehensive continuum of care, support and assistance to women affected by violence and for those in distress;
• To put in place quality mechanisms for rescue, protection and rehabilitation of women in need of assistance and victims of crime and violence;
• To improve accessibility to various government services available for women at various levels;
• Making people aware about Government schemes and programmes as well as legal provisions to fight social evils like dowry, domestic violence, Sexual Harassment at Workplace and to promote gender equality etc.
• Capacity building and training of functionaries/ duty bearers under various schemes/ Legislations;
• Collaboration with partner Ministries/ Departments/ States/ UTs for convergence of policies, programmes/ schemes and to create an enabling environment for public private partnership for safety and empowerment of women across sectors.
• Create awareness among masses for inducing positive behavioural change towards women and girls.
• To prevent gender-biased sex selective elimination; to ensure survival, protection,education and development of the girl child.

Mission Shakti has two sub-schemes -‘Sambal’ and ‘Samarthya’. In the „Sambal‟ subscheme, which is for safety and security of women, the existing scheme of One Stop Centre (OSC), Women Helpline (WHL), BetiBachaoBetiPadhao (BBBP) have been included with modifications and a new component of Nari Adalat

Sambal (safety and security of women)

Samartya (Empowerment of Women)

In the Samarthya' sub scheme, which is for empowerment of women, existing schemes of Ujjwala, SwadharGreh and Working Women Hostel have been included with modifications. In addition, the existing schemes of National Creche Scheme and PMMVY under umbrella 7 ICDS have now been included in Samarthya.