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WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

HEALTH COVERAGE UP TO RS 5 LAKH UNDER AYUSHMAN

BHARAT JAN AROGYA YOJANA WHICH CONSTITUTES 49
PERCENT OF WOMEN BENEFICIARIES

n Swachh Bharat Mission ensured a dignified life for
women by building more than 11.5 crore toilets in rural
and urban areas households.
Out of more than 3.14 crore pucca houses allotted
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under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana rural and urban,
more than 3.10 crore houses are owned by women or
in joint names.
9.34 crore LPG connections have been given till July 1,
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2022, under Ujjwala Yojana 1.0 and 2.0 for smoke-free
kitchens. LPG coverage was 62 percent in 2016 which
has increased to 104.1 percent in 2022.
Freedom to Muslim women from instant triple talaq.
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After its implementation in 2019, there has been a
reduction of 80 percent in the cases of triple talaq.
Four labor codes were formed by amalgamating 29
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labor laws, in which many protective provisions have
been made for women.

The government has increased maternity leave from
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12 weeks to 26 weeks by amending the Maternity
Benefit Act, 1961 in 2017. Now 12 weeks of maternity
leave is applicable to the mother even if she adopts a
child below the age of three months.

n Admission of girl students started in Sainik Schools,
10% seats reserved, admission of girls in NDA also
started.

Today, the face of women's empowerment is of women have Jan Dhan bank accounts; and when
also those crores of mothers and sisters who government subsidies go directly to women's
have received toilets in their homes under the bank accounts, these women become the face of
Swachh Bharat Mission, which is known as Izzat women's empowerment and transforming India.
Ghar in Uttar Pradesh, and who have received, for The confidence of female power in India has
the first time on their heads, not only the pucca grown today, and she is now directing the country's
house of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana but also future by determining her own. The Self-reliant
got its ownership. Similarly, crores of women get India campaign has been connecting women's
assistance during pregnancy and childbirth; crores potential to the country's development. As a result,

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