New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday interacted with ladies Self Help Group (SHG) members within the ‘Atmanirbhar Narishakti se Samvad’ programme by video conferencing.
PM Modi appreciated their function through the COVID-19 pandemic, saying that the way in which the ladies self-help teams have served the nation by producing masks and sanitisers, creating consciousness in regards to the unfold is unprecedented, information company ANI reported.
It was knowledgeable that there are over 42 crore Jan-Dhan financial institution accounts out of which 55 % are held by ladies. During the digital occasion, PM Narendra Modi spoke to the SHG members who’re promoted underneath the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM).Â
“I congratulate our sisters who along with giving a better life to their families have helped in the development of the country too,” PM Modi mentioned.
“Our government provided more support to women’s SHGs compare to previous governments. We opened bank accounts for women and provided loans without guarantee to SHGs. In seven years, SHGs have done commendable work in paying back their loans. There was a time when 9 per cent of loans became bad loans. This has now reduced to 2-2.5 per cent. The country acknowledges your honesty,” ANI quoted the Prime Minister as saying.
Prime Minister launched capitalisation help funds of Rs 1,625 crore to over 4 lakh SHGs. Besides this, he will even launch Rs 25 crore as seed cash for 7,500 SHG members underneath the PMFME (PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises) scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and Rs 4.13 crore as funds to 75 FPOs (Farmer Producer Organizations) being promoted underneath the mission.
Speaking to Champa Singh, a member of the SHG in Madhya Pradesh, PM Modi mentioned that “Nari Shakti” (ladies’s energy) can deliver any change if they’re decided and appreciated for his or her efforts.
“When a woman is empowered, not just a family is empowered but also the society and the country too develop,” the Prime Minister mentioned.
He instructed Champa that she start a web based marketing campaign for natural farming.
PM Modi instructed that, to mark the seventy fifth yr of Independence, ladies SHGs take out 75 hours in your complete yr and do sanitisation-related and water conservation works, which is able to assist the society at giant.
During the occasion, the Prime Minister launched a compilation of success tales of girls SHG members from all throughout the nation together with a handbook on universalisation of farm livelihoods.
According to PMO, DAY-NRLM goals at mobilizing rural poor households into Self Help Groups (SHGs) in a phased method and supply them long-term help to diversify their livelihoods, enhance their incomes and high quality of life.
It was knowledgeable that almost all of mission’s interventions are being applied and scaled up by the SHG ladies themselves who’re educated as group useful resource individuals (CRPs) – Krishi Sakhis, Pashu Sakhis, Bank Sakhis, Bima Sakhis and Banking Correspondent Sakhis.
