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25 Years of Good Governance & Reforms | SPECIAL REPORT

Women’s power at the centre of New India
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n Maternity leave increased from 12 to Lakhpati Didi Yojana
26 weeks. 3.35 crore potential
n A decision was taken to reserve women beneficiaries
33% of seats for women in the Lok
Sabha and State Assemblies. identified by 2025, 8.7
n There is a proposal to raise the crore women registered
marriage age of women from 18 to under Digital Livelihood.
21 years.
n The evil practice of triple talaq has
been abolished. Decision taken to Poshan 2.0 launched
n 3,000 women officers in the defence include women with an investment
sector in 2014, now more than cadets in NDA. of Rs 1.81 lakh crore.
11,000.

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Youth aspirations it. The target will be to create more than 3.5 crore jobs in two
get a boost years.

n National Education Policy-2020: Access to education from
n Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call from early childhood to higher and vocational levels. Target of
the Red Fort, appealing to one lakh youth 100 per cent gross enrolment ratio (GER) from preschool
from non-political families to join politics. to secondary level by the year 2030 and 50 per cent in higher
Government initiatives like Startup India, Skill education by 2035.
India, Skill Development, Digital India, and n With initiatives like the National Service
National Education Policy 2020 empowered Scheme, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, 131%
the youth, intending to empower them. and National Youth Empowerment increase in the
n On 15 August 2025, Prime Minister Viksit Program, youth are bringing change budget of the
Bharat Rojgar Yojana was announced, with a in leadership, service, and civic Ministry of Youth
provision of a budget of Rs 1 lakh crore for participation. Affairs and Sports as
compared to 2014.
Rozgar Mela: Launched in 2022, around 10 lakh appointment letters for government
jobs were issued through 16 national-level events.

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