Sabla (India)

The Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for Empowerment of Adolescent Girls Sabla is a centrally sponsored program of the Government of India initiated on 1 April 2011 under the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Objective

The objectives of the program are:

To enable adolescent girls' self-development and empowerment
Improve their nutrition and health status
Promote awareness about health, hygiene, nutrition, adolescent reproductive and sexual health and family and child care
Upgrade home-based skills, life skills and integrate with the National Skill Development Program for vocational skills
Mainstream out of school adolescent girls into formal/non-formal education.
Provide information/guidance about existing public services such as PHC, CHC, post office, bank, police station, etc.

An integrated package of services is to be provided to adolescent girls as follows:

Nutrition provision
Iron and folic acid supplementation
Health check-up and referral services
Nutrition and health education
Counseling/guidance on family welfare, ARSH, child care practices and home management
Life skills education and accessing public services
Vocational training for girls aged 16 and above under NSDP

The program would cover adolescent girls 11–18 years old under all Integrated Child Development Services projects in 200 selected districts in all states and UTs in the country. The target group would be subdivided into 11-15 and 15–18 years of age.