The regulation has been enforced after publishing in Nepal Gazette on June 14 after approval by the cabinet on May 23, said Ministry Secretary Dinesh Hari Adhikari.
The regulation has incorporated poor widow, divorced women, unmarried women under 35, and women with husband missing for more than five years, separated women by taking her share of property from husband.
The fund will help in running awareness programmes for such women in education, skill development training, self- employment, treatment, relief, rehabilitation, legal help and for social respect, he said.
The fund to be formed under the chairmanship of Secretary of the Ministry of Women, and Children and Social Welfare will have two representative women from single women sector, joint secretaries of various ministries and DIG of the Women of the Children Directorate of Police Headquarters as members.
Amount received from Government of Nepal, donor agencies, individuals, and organizations will be in the fund, said Secretary Adhikari.
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