Bhopal: In Madhya Pradesh, realizing Prime Minister’s dream of self-reliant India, more than 10 lakh masks have been made so far by the women entrepreneurs of the state under the Jeevan Shakti Yojana. The scheme has been started with an aim to provide low cost masks to the citizens and employment to women entrepreneurs. The Jeevan Shakti Yojana has facilitated women of urban and rural areas to become self-reliant in the corona crisis.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that in order to provide employment to women at local level and to protect the general public from the corona infection, the task of making masks in large quantities at low cost has been accomplished in the state by this scheme. An amount of over one crore 9 lakh rupees has also been paid to these women entrepreneurs by the state government.
Women entrepreneur Seema informed that masks made by us are being purchased at district level at the fixed rate of 11 rupees per mask. From the commencement of the scheme more than 10 thousand women entrepreneurs have registered themselves for making masks. It may be mentioned that orders of about 20 lakh masks costing over 2 crore rupees have already been placed to the women entrepreneurs.
