Modi government has started many schemes for women and girls in the last 9 years.
Girls’ right to education feticide But strictness and maternity leave… Modi government In the last 9 years, many such decisions were taken and schemes were implemented, which had a direct impact on women and girls. He got the benefit of this. The effect of women empowerment schemes was visible from the city to the village. want again Save daughter – educate daughter Whether it is to raise funds for their education and marriage through the Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana.
Know, in the last 9 years, what schemes were run by the Modi government to empower women.
Ujjwala Yojana: 17 crore gas connections in 9 years
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched in 2016 keeping women in mind. The target of the scheme was to provide gas connections to 8 crore families of the country by March 2020. To increase this scope, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 2.0 was started in the financial year 2021-22.
If we look at the figures related to the scheme, in the last 9 years, through this, 17 crore LPG consumers took new LPG connections. As of April 2014, the number of active LPG consumers was 14.52 crore, which increased to 31.26 crore in the last 9 years.
Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana: Fund for education and marriage of girls
The Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, which collects money for the education and marriage of girls, was started in 2014. It is like a saving scheme. For this, parents can open an account for a girl child below 10 years of age. When the scheme was started 9 years ago, interest was given at the rate of 9.1%, but in 2015 it was increased to 9.2%. Now interest is being given at the rate of 8 percent at present. At the time of the launch of the scheme, its many benefits were told. Such as guaranteed returns, tax benefits and higher interest rates.
Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao: Aiming to Stop Feticide and Educate the Girl Child
Seeing the decreasing birth rate of girls in Haryana, PM Narendra Modi started the Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao scheme in 2015. Its goal has been to provide financial help to educate them along with banning female foeticide. Along with this, talk of giving financial help for their marriage was also said. According to the report of The Hindu, between 2016-2019, the central government spent 80 percent of the scheme’s funds in advertisements to take this scheme to every nook and corner of the country.
Free Sewing Machine Scheme: Scheme to provide free machines to 50 thousand women in every state
To strengthen women financially, the Modi government came up with a free sewing machine scheme. Through this, it was said to help those women who are interested in sewing and embroidery. Free sewing machines are being given to more than 50,000 women in every state of the country so that women of both urban and rural areas can take advantage of this. The age to apply for this has been kept at 20 to 40 years.
Maternity Leave: 60 days for Special Maternity Leave
The central government announced to give maternity leave to women employees in September 2022. In this announcement, it was said that women employees will be given special maternity leave of 60 days in case of stillbirth or death after birth. It was said in this order that the death of a child immediately after birth breaks the woman emotionally. Its effect is visible on his life for a long time. That’s why a provision of 60 days leave was kept.
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