JAMMU: Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday directed the Social Welfare Department (SWD) to prepare an approach paper on the implementation status of all welfare schemes for women in the State.
Mehbooba issued these directions while chairing 2nd meeting of State Mission Authority under National Mission for Empowerment of Women (NMEW) here.
She further said that a number of schemes aimed at welfare of women are in operation in the State by various Departments and agencies. She said the status of implementation of each of such schemes and the difficulties, if any, in the successful delivery of benefits be recorded in an organised way to let the government take a further view on making these schemes more successful in future.
She asked for extension of more women friendly initiatives in the State and convergence of policy measures to make these initiatives successful on the ground.
It was informed in the meeting that as per the decision of the first meeting of the SMA, the State Resource Centre for Women has been made fully functional in the State to give focused attention to the inter sectoral issues affecting women besides implementing various gender sensitive programmes of the government.
Similarly, the One Stop Centre (OSC) concept to provide coordinated response to victims of violence against women by way of medical help, shelter, legal assistance and psychological counseling is in the final stages of execution and nine such centres are in pipeline in the State.
Minister for Social Welfare, Sajad Ghani Lone, who is the Member Convenor of the Authority besides Minister for R&B, Abdul Rehman Veeri, Minister for Revenue, Syed Basharat Bukhari, Minister for Education Naeem Akhtar, Minister for Health & Medical Education Bali Bhagat, Minister for Forests Choudhary Lal Singh, Minister for Rural Development Department Abdul Haq, Minister for Agriculture Ghulam Nabi Lone Hanjura, Minister of State for Social Welfare Asiea Naqash, Minister of State for Power Syed Farooq Andrabi, Chairperson, State Commission for Women Nayeema Ahmad Mehjoor and Secretary, Social Welfare Department Sajad Ahmad Khan and office bearers of State Mission Authority were present in the meeting.