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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar connected Monday (February 16, 2026) transferred ₹2,500 crore straight into the slope accounts of 25 lakh women beneficiaries nether “Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana” to commencement businesses of their ain choice.
With this, the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) authorities has, truthful far, transferred ₹18,100 crore into the slope accounts of 1.81 crore women beneficiaries astatine the complaint of ₹10,000 to each beneficiary nether the scheme.
Mr. Kumar transferred ₹2,500 crore astatine the complaint of ₹10,000 to each of the beneficiary’s accounts astatine the click of a distant button.
Both Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Sinha, Water Resources Minister Vijay Kumar Choudhary, Rural Development Minister Shrawan Kumar and a big of different elder officials including CM’s Principal Secretary Deepak Kumar and Chief Secretary Pratyaya Amrit were besides contiguous astatine the relation held astatine CM’s authoritative residence 1, Aney Marg successful Patna.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected September 26, 2025, portion launching the scheme, had transferred ₹7,500 crore to the slope accounts of 75 lakh women beneficiaries via video-conferencing from New Delhi.
The State Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, had connected August 29, 2025, approved a strategy “Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana” to guarantee economical empowerment of women successful the State.
Under the scheme, a pistillate from each household fixed arsenic the archetypal instalment of ₹10,000 arsenic assistance to commencement a concern of her ain choice, creating employment opportunities successful the State itself.
The strategy envisaged the proviso of giving up to ₹2 lakh to the women entrepreneurs who volition beryllium palmy successful her task pursuing the valuation of the show of their entrepreneurial ventures aft six months. The State Cabinet had connected January 29 past fixed the motion to statesman the process to springiness further fiscal assistance of up to ₹2 lakh to the selected beneficiaries.
Welcoming women beneficiaries connected done video-conferencing successful ample numbers connected the occasion, Mr. Kumar said that “It’s a substance of large happiness that the magnitude of ₹10,000 each is being transferred into the slope accounts of 25 lakh women beneficiaries to transportation retired concern of her ain choice.”
“A precise ample fig of women person started concern of their ain prime with the fiscal assistance fixed nether the scheme. The authorities would springiness further fiscal assistance of up to ₹2 lakh to those women who volition successfully transportation retired their concern venture,” Mr. Kumar said portion adding that the magnitude (of ₹10,000) volition beryllium transferred soon into the accounts of remaining families nether the scheme.
Stating that his authorities has ever fixed accent connected “women’s empowerment” from the beginning. Out of 1.56 crore beneficiaries of the scheme, 1.44 crore beneficiaries beryllium to agrarian areas portion 12 lakh beneficiaries successful municipality areas. With 25 lakh beneficiaries getting ₹10,000 each today, the full fig of beneficiaries would summation from 1.56 crore to 1.81 crore.
Beneficiaries of “Mukhya Mantri Mahila Rozgar Yojana”, Chandu Bharti, a nonmigratory of Muzaffarpur district, Shabeena Khatoon a nonmigratory of Nalanda territory shared their experiences of however they got benefits from assorted schemes launched by the State Government including ‘Mahila Rozgar Yojana’.
Ms. Bharti said that ₹10,000 proved to beryllium of immense assistance for her arsenic she bought a cattle aft adding ₹10,000 taken arsenic indebtedness to the sum received nether Mahila Rozgar Yojana.
Stating that she has started earning income from the merchantability of milk, she said that she would unfastened a “sewing centre” and supply grooming to different women sewing and stitching, frankincense she would not lone beryllium earning wealth but would assistance others besides gain money.
