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In order to empower elected women member in municipal bodies and ensure their active participation in urban development process, the centre has been providing financial assistance to states to train the elected women councilors of urban local bodies. Ministry of Urban Development has been impressing upon the States to get their women councilors trained immediately after the completion of election to the urban local bodies. For this purpose, a training plan has been initiated. Under this, the State Governments are required to nominate one state-level institute to conduct training programmes of three days duration. To conduct these training programmes, the identified training institutions are provided with financial grants @ Rs. 1,000 per day per participant. Besides, the institutes also get financial grants (maximum up to Rs. 5.00 lakhs) for preparation of training modules. The total expenditure involved in the training programme is shared by both the central and state governments on 50:50 basis.
So far the following States have been provided financial assistance as per details given below:
Name of the State
Funds Released (Rs. In lakhs)
Numbers of Women Councillors to be trained
Assam
2.44 (Ist instalment)
242
Chhatisgarh
9.475 (Ist & 2nd instalment)
465
Delhi
1.22(Ist instalment)
48
Goa
1.33(Ist instalment)
52
Gujarat
11.715(Ist instalment)
1462
Haryana
4.30(Ist instalment)
407
Himachal Pradesh
1.537(Ist instalment)
150
Kerala
1.50(Ist instalment)
620
Karnataka
28.84(Ist & 2nd instalment)
1878
Madhya Pradesh
17.32(Ist instalment)
2170
Maharashtra
18.00(Ist instalment)
2367
Punjab & Chandigarh
6.925(Ist instalment)
819
Rajasthan
9.635(Ist instalment)
1484
Uttaranchal
4.77(single instalment)
212
West Bengal
13.41(Ist instalment)
1061
As a result of implementation of Constitution (74th Amendment) Act, there are around 70,000 elected representatives in various ULBs out of which around 23,000 are women councilors.
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