Revolutionary policies unveiled in past 10 yrs to empower women: Modi
Hindustan TimesWomen empowerment is on the government’s topmost agenda and started with the construction of 120 million toilets since 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday while launching a stipendiary scheme to train 2 lakh women insurance agents earning a regular monthly sum totalling to ₹2.16 lakh per person in three years. Taking popular names of his government’s scheme to uplift lives of poor women, he said: “Bima sakhi, bank sakhi, krishi sakhi, pashu sakhi, drone didi, lakhpati didi may sound very simple and ordinary, but they are transforming the fate of India,” he said. Govt has paid ₹1.25 lakh crore as MSP in 10 yrs: Modi Modi assured the people of Haryana that the double engine BJP government -- at the Centre and state level -- will work three times faster in its third term for all-round development, and emphasised that women’s power will continue to grow. Earlier, introducing the ‘Bima Sakhi Yojana’, a stipendiary scheme of state-run Life Insurance Corporation of India, Union finance minister Nirnala Sitharanan said that the scheme is well aligned with the government’s key objectives of women empowerment and financial inclusion.
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