The canopy of an electric blue cotton saree pulled over her head, Asha Das set out from her village in northwest Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district one searing morning in May last year. For, the two women are the first participants in the central government’s flagship lakhpati didi scheme, which aims to catalyse economic empowerment and financial independence among women in rural …
Published : Nov 17, 2022 10:35 IST The Central government has claimed that schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme “acted as a boon for the populace” in the pandemic years, when cities saw a reverse migration because of the lockdown. However, the Ministry of Rural Development’s Sixth Common Review Mission, which examines rural development schemes …
