National Commission for Women

Last updated: September 15th, 2023

Setup in 2019, WW&CB Cell of NCW works on the needs of women-centric interventions to address the most pressing challenges affecting empowering of women at economic, social, cultural and political level.

Functions of Women Welfare & Capacity Building Cell

1. Coordinating all initiatives for putting in place a robust mechanism to tackle persistent indifference to the cause of vulnerable women.
2. Activities relating to imparting gender specific knowledge/training to police, judicial and administrative officials with a view to inculcate gender sensitivity (Gender Sensitisation Programmes).
3. Capacity Building Programmes for investigating/police judicial and administrative officers (Capacity Building Programmes).
4. Capacity building and skill development program for college students, women at grassroots level.
5. Coordination with various stakeholders for handholding of women at grassroots level.
6. Organizing/conducting workshops, conferences, seminars, legal awareness Programmes involving students, members of the legal fraternity, Corporate, non-governmental organizations and various other stake-holders.
7. Digital Literacy Programmes for college/University students to handle training programmes relating to home-stay tourism for women in North Eastern States in coordination with North East Cell.
8. Organizing awareness programs on various women centric issues through healthy competitions for college/University students with a view to generate awareness and inculcate gender sensitivity.
9. Interaction with State Commissions for Women and hand holding.