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Cover Story Empowering Rural India

When someone has his own
pucca house, how much his
confidence increases, how much
his ability to take risks increases.
His dreams start touching the sky.
The PM Awas Yojana has raised
the confidence of the country's
poor to a new height.

-Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

Every house illuminates with electricity

announced a special poor welfare package worth 2.86 crore houses
Rs1.75 lakh crores the next day, March 26, 2020. were electrified
under Saubhagya
After the country was unlocked and the economy scheme.
began to recover, Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched the Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan on June
20, 2020, to provide employment and livelihood crore affordable
opportunities to migrant workers returning to 40 LED bulbs have
villages because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Rural been distributed
migrant workers' skills were identified to help over the years.
provide work closer to home. As part of a campaign,
projects worth Rs 50,000 crore were implemented thousand crore rupees
in 116 districts across six states in 125 days. As 20 electricity bill of the
a result of his thinking about changing the poor's poor and middle
lifestyle and providing them with a quality lifestyle, class was reduced
25 categories of work have been identified under
this campaign that can provide modern facilities in Smokeless fuel makes life pleasant
addition to basic facilities in the villages.
The goal of this campaign, which began in Telihar
village in Bihar's Khagaria district, was to provide crore LPG connections
livelihood opportunities to migrant and local workers 9.6 were given under the
who had returned home in large numbers following Ujjwala scheme.
the COVID pandemic. Infrastructure expansion in
villages, including creating opportunities for roads,
housing, anganwadis, panchayat buildings, various crore families got their
livelihood assets, community halls, and so on. The 8.41 cylinders refilled in the
combination of different types of work will ensure year 2022-23, in which
that every migrant worker finds work based on his 35 crore refills were
or her skills within 125 days. It focused on migrant done by PMUY families.
workers who had returned home in 116 districts

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