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Cover Story : 77 th Independence Day Celebrations
Made women self-
reliant by making
them financially
prosperous
There was a time when daughters and women
were considered less than men but times
changed, circumstances changed and a new
thinking government was formed in the
country. From education of daughters to
their safety and empowerment of women,
the government worked very effectively, the
impact of which is that now the potential of
daughters and women is visible in the country.
Be it agriculture, trade-business to knowledge-
science or engineering to military service, now
daughters and women are marching ahead
everywhere from country to abroad.
Strength of our country is visible today n The additional power of women-led development
will take the country towards further progress.
n Today 10 crore women are involved in women Today, India can proudly say that if any country in
self-help groups and if you go to a village with the world has the highest number of women pilots
women self-help groups, you will find bank didis, in civil aviation, it's our nation. Whether it's the
Anganwadi didis with and didis who distribute progress of Chandrayaan or the moon missions,
medicines. And now my dream is to create a many women scientists are at the forefront.
base of 2 crore lakhpati didis in the villages. n Today with the aim of creating a base of 2 crore
And now we have new options for the same i.e. Lakhpati Didis, we are working on women self-help
science and technology. groups. We, while promoting the potential of our
n I can see the potential of the women in our women power, we are focusing on women-led
villages and that's why I am thinking of a new development. When I put forward the matter of
scheme. That will provide training to the sisters women-led development in the G-20, the whole
of Women Self Help Group with the integration G-20 group acknowledged its importance. And by
of technology in our agriculture sector thereby acknowledging its importance, they are giving a
strengthening our agritech. We will give skill lot of emphasis on it.
training to women and train them to operate n When recently I visited a country where a very
as well as repair drones. The Government of senior minister asked me a question – “Do
India will provide drones to thousands of such your daughters study science and engineering
Women Self Help Groups. We will initiate making subjects?” I told him that today in my country
drone services available for our agricultural more daughters than boys are taking up STEM i.e.
work. To begin with, we will start building 15 Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. It
thousand Women Self Help Groups which will was surprising for him to know that my daughters
give flight to the dream of enabling a robust are taking maximum part in it. This capability of
drone training mission. our country is visible today.
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