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Towards
Duty
Over
2.50 Years Towards Duty
Path
Path
Years
Crore Sukanya BETI BACHAO,BETI
Samriddhi
Accounts have PADHAO
been opened Scheme
so far Commencement 22 JANUARY, 2015

10% of the fund, i.e., Rs 1000 crore Sex ratio improves,
in the fund operated by the Small daughters become pride
Industries Development Bank of
India, is reserved for women-led Objective: To address the issue of
startups. diminishing sex ratios and to foster
an environment that encourages
The Women's Capacity females to pursue higher education.
Development Initiative is a
capacity-building programme for n The Child Sex Ratio is a
women-led enterprises that seek decadal process that was
to assist aspiring and established discovered during the
women entrepreneurs succeed. census. It is for this reason Progress
that the sex ratio at birth is
kept track of.
As of December 8, 2021, 46 percent
of the 60,000 recognised businesses, n According to the Ministry of
Health, the national sex ratio
or 27,665 startups, had at least one at birth was 918 in 2014-
female director. 2015, and it has risen to 934

in 2019-2020.
The Standup India Program, which n The influence of the
began on April 5, 2016, has been strategy implemented to
extended through 2025. Under this, address issues connected
every branch of the bank is mandated to women's empowerment
to provide a loan of between Rs 10
lakh and Rs 1 crore to at least one SC on lowering child sex ratios
or ST person and one woman. and life cycle continuity has
also been discovered in
numerous states, which the
Mahila Shakti Kendras task force is monitoring at
have been running since the central, state, and district
November, 2017 to empower levels.
women through community
participation.

Progress
Scheme WOMEN'S TECHNOLOGY PARK (WTP) For self-sufficiency at the local level, There have
been 13
WTP strengthening the weak
best practises are used to impart
technological
link of entrepreneurship
skill development and capacity
established
building. In these parks, training on
Objective: Improve the weakest link digital art making and craft designing parks
in the women's-oriented livelihood using CAD, fuel manufacturing across the
country thus
system to encourage women's from agricultural waste, agriculture far, with more
entrepreneurship and employment in computerized embroidery, among on the way.
a given area. others, are imparted.

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