2.5 Swadhar Scheme – For Women in Difficult Circumstances
• Swadhar is a Central sector scheme for providing holistic and integrated services to women  in difficult circumstances such as destitute widows, women prisoners released from jail and without family support, women survivors of  natural disasters; trafficked women/girls  rescued from brothels or other places or victims of sexual crime, mentally challenged women who are without any support etc.
• The package  of services made available include provision for food, clothing, shelter, health care, counselling and legal support, social and economic rehabilitation through education, awareness generation , skill upgradation.
• The scheme is implemented through voluntary organisations including Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare, Boards, State Women's • Development Corporation, urban bodies etc., provided they have the required experience and expertise in the rehabilitation of such women.
• The scheme  also supports  counselling centre, training centre and medical centre.
• Objectives of the Swadhar Scheme:
i) To provide primary need of shelter, food, clothing and care to the marginalized women/girls living in difficult circumstances who are without any social and economic support;
ii) To provide emotional support and counseling to such women;
iii) To rehabilitate them socially and economically through education, awareness, skill up gradation and personality development through behavioral training etc.;
iv) To arrange for specific clinical, legal and other support for women/girls in need of those intervention by linking and networking with other organizations in both Govt. & Non- Govt. sector on case to case basis;
v) To provide for help line or other facilities to such women in distress; and
vi) To provide such other services as will be required for the support and rehabilitation to such women in distress.



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