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PM Modi Reviews Progress On Schemes Based On The Announcements In His Independence Day Speech

PM chaired a high level review meeting to discuss the progress made on schemes to be implemented based on his Independence Day speech.

PM had spoken about making 2 crore Lakhpati didis, i.e. making 2 crore women engaged in SHGs or Anganwadis Lakhpatis. He took stock of the various livelihood interventions planned to achieve this target.

In his Independence Day speech, PM had spoken about equipping 15,000 women Self Help Groups with drones for agriculture and related purposes. PM was given an overview of the plans to implement this, ranging from training of Women SHGs to monitoring of activity.

“We will give training to operate drones, repair drones and the Government of India will provide drones to thousands of such Women Self Help Groups, they will provide training and we will start to make drone services available for our agricultural work”, he had said during his Red Fort address.

PM had also spoken about taking the number of Jan Aushadhi Stores in India to 25,000 from 10,000 currently to increase the reach of affordable medicines. PM reviewed the implementation strategy for this expansion.

Bharat Express English

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