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Chennai: In a major step towards women empowerment, the Tamil Nadu government is set to launch Women Information Bank (WIB), a one-stop digital platform to support their employment, entrepreneurship, security and well-being.
The initiative, supported by the Rs 1,185 crore World Bank-supported Tamil Nadu Women’s Employment and Security (TNWeSafe) project, aims to serve as an integrated hub for all women-oriented schemes and services across all departments.
Designed as a multi-sector digital gateway, WIB will provide easy access to information on skills training, career development, entrepreneurship and welfare support.
It will also guide women to avail child care and elderly care facilities, hostels and psychological or career counselling.
The platform will include networking opportunities that will enable women to connect with mentors, peers and institutions that can assist in their professional and personal development.
Officials said the WIB will provide comprehensive resources on health care, legal rights, mental well-being, social law and personal safety.
It will also include emergency support tools including domestic violence helplines, police contact details and maps of nearby one-stop help centres.
A safe digital space for women to report harassment or discrimination at the workplace will be built into the system, thereby strengthening the grievance redressal framework.
The Department of Social Welfare and Women Empowerment has already issued tenders to develop the platform, which is expected to go live within six months.
The goal, officials said, is to create a dynamic and data-driven system that helps track beneficiaries and enhance service delivery.
WIB will integrate data from multiple departments including social welfare, MSME, skill development, health, education and transport to ensure interoperability and transparency.
It will also help in policy evaluation, real-time monitoring and evidence-based decision making for women-centric programmes.
The five-year TNWeSafe project focuses on three pillars – employing (increasing women’s participation in the workforce), enabling (improving access to services and opportunities), and empowering (strengthening institutional systems). Earlier this year, tenders were also called for formulating state-level and district-level Women Quality Employment Plan (WQEP and D-WQEP) to identify challenges and improve women workforce participation across Tamil Nadu.
–IANS