J&K Women`s Development Corporation

Jammu & Kashmir Women`s Development Corporation was incorporated in the year 1991 as State Chanellising Agency and started functioning w.e.f. 1994. The Corporation is implementing a number of Developmental Schemes of State as well as Central Government for Socio- Economic Upliftment of Women with a special focus on the families living Below Poverty Line (BPL) & Women belonging to Minorities, Backward & Other Classes.

Organisational Set Up

Objectives

• Identification and promotion of women entrepreneurs.
• Conducting of awareness camps and identifying women for various activities by which they can be empowered.
• To empower women by helping them to establish income generating units by providing soft loan at a very low rate of interest.
• Identification of activities, trades, for skill upgradation training and thereof framing Self Help Groups amongst them for providing micro credit.
• To empower women by framing Self Help Groups and thereafter framing Block Level Societies who shall work independently as NGOs/ Cooperative Societies in a particular Block.