CM Dhami participated in the Direct Selling Women Entrepreneurship Summit 2025 organized in Delhi
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami participated in the Direct Selling Women Entrepreneurship Summit 2025 organized at Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi on the occasion of International Women’s Day. On this occasion, he wished women from different parts of the country a Happy International Women’s Day. The Chief Minister said that today the women power of India is working shoulder to shoulder with men in every field. Commendable work is being done by the women power in many fields like army, politics, sports, science, agriculture, education, industry.
The Chief Minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, efforts are being made at every level for the upliftment and empowerment of the women power of the country today. In the last about 11 years, Jan Dhan bank accounts of more than 30 crore women were opened across the country. Along with fulfilling the pledge of making more than 1 crore women Lakhpati Didi through Lakhpati Didi Yojana in the country, more than 30 crore women are being empowered and made self-reliant by giving loans under Mudra Yojana. For women empowerment, the country’s Parliament has passed a law to give 33 percent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and the Legislative Assembly.
The Chief Minister said that the state government is also working rapidly in every field for women empowerment. Efforts are being made to ensure their proper representation in every department by giving 30 percent horizontal reservation to the daughters of the state in government jobs. To empower women economically, loans up to Rs 5 lakh are being given to women self-help groups without interest. Under the Lakhpati Didi Yojana, more than 01 lakh women of Uttarakhand have become lakhpatis. A target has been set to make 1.5 lakh women Lakhpati Didi by the end of the year 2025. The state government is making women self-reliant and economically empowering them through various schemes like ‘Sashakt Bahana Utsav Yojana’ and ‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Swayam Sahayata Samuhshaktikaran Yojana’. On this occasion, MP Praveen Khandelwal from Delhi, Vice President State Disaster Management Advisory Committee Vinay Rohila and Dr. Sanjeev Kumar were present.
