Poll sop: PM to transfer Rs 10,000 each to 75L Bihar women today

NEW DELHI: In what could beryllium a game-changer successful the Bihar polls, PM Narendra Modi volition motorboat via video-conferencing connected Friday Bihar's Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana and straight transportation Rs 10,000 each into the slope accounts of 75 lakh women crossed the state.Officials said the strategy was aimed astatine making women "atmanirbhar" (self-reliant) and promoting empowerment done self-employment and livelihood opportunities.JDU nationalist enforcement president Sanjay Kumar Jha said six months aft the archetypal outgo of Rs 10,000, govt would reappraisal and measure self-employment initiatives earlier providing further assistance of up to Rs 2 lakh each successful stages. "This historical time volition beryllium celebrated arsenic a nationalist festival successful the state," helium said.Deputy main curate Samrat Choudhary said the full magnitude of Rs 7,500 crore disbursed nether the strategy would springiness caller wings to women's dreams successful the state. Financial assistance is being provided to 1 pistillate from each household successful the state.The strategy volition beryllium assemblage driven and assets persons connected to self-help groups volition supply women grooming to enactment their endeavours. To enactment the merchantability of their produce, "gramin haats" volition beryllium further developed successful the state.