SUPPORT TO TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN (STEP)
✅Aims to increase the self-reliance and autonomy of women by enhancing their productivity and enabling them to take up income generation activities. It provides training for skill upgradation to women in the traditional sector viz. agriculture, animal husbandry, dairying, fisheries, handlooms, handicrafts, khadi and village industries sericulture, social forestry and wasteland development.
✅Objectives
✓To mobilise women in small viable groups and make facilities available through training and access to credit.
✓To provide training for skill upgradation.
✓To enable groups of women to take up employment-cum-income generation programmes by providing backward and forward linkages.
✓To provide support services for further improving training and employment conditions of women.
