Page 41 - Mann Ki Baat - English May 2022

Indian Institute of Banking and joining Self-Help Groups, there
Finance (IIBF) examination and have been many changes in
started working as Bank Sakhi the lives of the women of the
in Madhyanchal Gramin Bank. village. “I have noticed that
Today, Chanda ji is recognized in women who did not step out
all the nearby Gram Panchayats. of the house before joining
the group are now going to
Whether it is the task of forming
different offices, to banks alone
Self-Help Groups in other villages
to work and get their work done.
or connecting all the women of her
They are no more hesitant
village to such groups—Chanda
and are much more aware. By
ji has undertaken all such tasks
engaging in various types of
for the empowering the women
livelihood activities, the women
and in turn the villages. She also
are moving from being a
organized the farmers in the
labourer to a proprietor, getting
villages and formed Shivoham FPO,
additional income on their own
in which Chanda ji was elected as
and are today able to provide
the director by the farmers.
financial assistance to their
Chanda ji believes that after families.”
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