Kalahandi Collector Bijay Ketan Upadhyaya launched a women support centre programme in the district on the occasion of the 65th Republic Day on Sunday.
The Collector said women support centres, which originally aim to support single women such as widows, divorcees, abandoned, differently-abled and unmarried adult women to benefit from State’s land and social security entitlement schemes, has the potential of bringing a slow social revolution.
The programme will be implemented with support from NGO Landesa.
The Collector stated that the centres would function as exclusive cells from each tehsil office to identify and facilitate land allocation to single women and woman-headed families under different State laws and schemes. All the tehsildars were instructed to position women nodal officers, essentially of the rank of RI or ARI, at each centre.
The programme will train revenue officials on the provisions for securing women’s land rights through a series of workshops and training programmes while Anganwadi workers will be trained to identify single women
and women-headed households in the rural areas through a unique enumeration system.
Besides, the centres will also identify the women who are eligible for other entitlements like housing schemes, pension schemes, identity papers and food security schemes from the BDOs.
After Ganjam, Mayurbhanj and Koraput, Kalahandi is the fourth district to launch this programme.
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