Prasagraj: Before dealing with women who gathered at the bottom of the city parade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi together with the Minister of Yogi Adityanath and Deputy CM, Keshav Prasad Maurya interacted with groups of women, benefited from the state and central government schemes.
To start, PM met the women who worked as banking correspondents (BC) – Sakhi in various country villages.
Modi discussed it as a bank ‘ghumti-firti’ (bank roaming) and asked about their work style, whether they were respected among villagers and how they helped villages and also changed banking scenarios in the villages.
Women members explain to PM about how the world has changed for them, how they have been alone, before they were only considered cooking and caring for households but now they helped villagers, out of houses and produce themselves and households too.
When one of the members, Nitu Maurya, told PM that the daily transaction was around 2-2.5 lakh, he asked, “Aapko Der Nahi Lagta Itna Cash Le Jaate Hue” (Are you not afraid of dealing with so much cash) with confidence answer, ‘no master’.
PM then met with a group of women engaged in the nutritional manufacturing unit (taking home rations).
PM instantly crashed into a chord with women present at a vast pandal.
He asked them that in addition to producing nutritional ratios, whether they made people aware of the importance of staying healthy and eating healthy.
He also told them to ensure that teenage girls looked right in the village because if they stay healthy, only then they would be a healthy mother in time.
PM also said, “You (members related to the manufacturing scheme) have done it well so we think of implementing schemes elsewhere too”.
In his last interaction, PM met the girls and mothers who benefited from the Mukhya Mukhya Scheme Kanya Sumangala.
He asked how and the extent to which this scheme helped the girls pursue their studies.
For young girls, PM asks if they go to school or not or learn through online mode.
PM asks students that even though they can learn through offline mode, they should not leave the habit of collecting more knowledge through online mode.
He stressed, “Chahe Kuch Bhi Ho Jaaye, Beti to Padna Chahiye” (what might happen, the princess must learn).