Ponnam pledges greater support for women’s empowerment initiatives

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Minister for Transport and BC Welfare Ponnam Prabhakar said that greater enactment would beryllium extended to women’s empowerment initiatives successful the city.

The Minister reviewed ongoing improvement works and their advancement astatine the GHMC office connected Wednesday with the Commissioner, Additional Commissioners, Zonal and Deputy Commissioners, and elder officials.

Emphasising women’s economical empowerment, Mr. Prabhakar said that the authorities was moving with a wide absorption connected payment and livelihoods. He said the fig of self-help groups successful Greater Hyderabad, presently implicit 72,942, should beryllium accrued to 1 lakh, and each pistillate from a BPL household should beryllium enrolled arsenic a subordinate of a self-help group.

With the enactment of SETWIN, women’s groups successful the metropolis would beryllium provided grooming successful assorted livelihood options to alteration them to go self-reliant, helium said. Recalling the occurrence of providing electrical buses to agrarian self-help groups arsenic an further root of income, the Minister said 40 to 50 electrical buses would likewise beryllium allotted to women’s groups successful Greater Hyderabad.

Officials briefed the Minister connected cardinal programmes, including H-CITI, the Strategic Road Development Plan (SRDP), the Strategic Nala Development Programme (SNDP), roads and tempest h2o drains, sanitation, nationalist health, municipality planning, women’s welfare, municipality self-help groups, situation and aerial prime nether the National Clean Air Programme.

Mr. Prabhakar said responsibilities of the GHMC officials would summation successful the coming days and asked them to stay vigilant, prioritise nationalist grievance redressal and guarantee timely completion of works. He stressed the request for wide enactment plans and effectual field-level problem-solving.

Published - January 21, 2026 08:42 p.m. IST

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