STEP (Support to Women Training & Education Program)
Support to Training and Employment Programme (STEP) for Women was launched by the Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, as one of the measures to ensure well being of women in the traditional informal sector in the year 1986 and advocates the objective of extending training for upgradation of skills and sustainable employment for women through a variety of action oriented projects which employ women in large numbers.
The Programme of STEP aims
• To organize exclusive Women Dairy Cooperatives and to take up employment cum income generation activities.
• To provide need based and extensive training for skill upgradation.
• Mobilizing women in formation of Self Help Groups as a tool for income generating activity and for easy access to credit.
• Provide support services, backward and forward linkages and improving employment conditions of women.
• Confidence building among women and to generate leadership qualities.