Prayagraj, 16 November (). The Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh is making the women of the state economically empowered and self-reliant. Self-help groups formed under the State Rural Livelihood Mission are making women financially self-reliant. This mission has changed the lives of hundreds of rural women handling household chores in Prayagraj.
Manisha Sahu, who once ran her family by running the home stove, has today become an example of self-reliance in the village. Manisha Sahu, living in Ismailpur, Prayagraj, did not even have enough money to enroll her children in school. Her husband was suffering from an incurable disease, so to educate her three children, she sent them to her maternal home, where their father enrolled them in school. Manisha created her new path by joining Maa Ganga Self Help Group in 2020. Manisha started working as Bijli Sakhi.
Manisha said that early in the morning she goes from village to village on a broken bicycle to collect and collect the electricity bills of the people. In the initial days, it was difficult to meet the family’s expenses with the income she earned from the commission of this work, but now she earns more than Rs 20 thousand every month as a Bijli Sakhi. Manisha has bought a scooter with this money. Manisha has also connected more than two dozen women of the village with this and the lives of those women have also changed.
The priority of the Yogi government of Uttar Pradesh has been to make women self-reliant and self-reliant. For this, the government has formed women self-help groups, through which women are being helped to become self-reliant. Prayagraj Deputy Commissioner NLRM Ashok Kumar Gupta says that rural women are being given new responsibilities in the campaign to make them self-reliant.
820 women associated with women self-help groups in the district have been given the responsibility of collecting electricity bills in the village as Vidyut Sakhi and giving information to the consumers about the schemes run by the electricity department. In this, 324 Bijli Sakhi are active at present. In this also Maa Ganga Women Self Help Group is leading. Group President Manisha Sahu has deposited electricity bills worth more than Rs 12 crore to the electricity department till the first week of November this year. It is estimated that their revenue will cross the figure of Rs 22 crore this financial year.
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