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The economic empowerment of women makes
them equally empowered in society. Our

government has opened all the doors for our
daughters. All the doors that were closed.
-Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

mankind. The women power of the country has Kaal of independence.
instilled new confidence in the country through
their entrepreneurship and willingness to take on Self-Help Groups: A Model of Service-Success
any challenge, from making lakhs and lakhs of With the change that is coming in every field due
tricolours to completing every task one after the to self-help groups, the country will be successful
other. When a group is born, 10–12 women gather, in making a better society and a stronger nation.
step by step, increase it step by step, some money The manner in which the women's group served
is collected from here and there, and efforts are the countrymen through self-help groups during
made, then it takes the form of a self-help group. the COVID period is unprecedented. Along with
However, whether there is a global disaster like giving a better life to their families, crores of
COVID on the nation or the celebration of hoisting women engaged in furthering the development
the tricolour or participation in government of the country have become the vehicle for the
schemes as well as monitoring them, these self- development of the nation along with themselves.
help groups become nation-help groups in the true Self-Help Groups and the Deen Dayal Antyodaya
sense due to their capability and determination. Yojana are bringing a new revolution to rural India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "The today, and it has been made possible because of
self-help groups are helping the nation today by women's self-help groups. SHGs have increased
becoming national help groups. This strength of more than threefold in the last 6-7 years. This is
women's self-help groups is today committed to significant because, for many years, the sisters'
playing a very important role in the making of a economic empowerment was not prioritised as
self-reliant India, a developed India in the Amrit much as it should have been. When Narendra Modi

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