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PM launches scheme for women LIC agents
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|December 10, 2024
NEW DELHI: Women empowerment is on the government's topmost agenda and started with the construction of 120 million toilets since 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday while launching a stipendiary scheme to train 200,000 women insurance agents earning a regular monthly sum totaling to ₹2.16 lakh per person in three years.
Revolutionary policies unveiled for empowerment of rural women and decisions taken for them in the last one decade are matters for academic research, Prime Minister said at a public gathering in Panipat, Haryana. Listing popular schemes of his government, he said: "Bima sakhi, bank sakhi, krishi sakhi, pashu sakhi, drone didi, lakhpati didi may sound very simple and ordinary, but they are transforming the fate of India."
This story is from the December 10, 2024 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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