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Building connected the occurrence of the Lakhpati Didi scheme, community-owned retail shops volition beryllium acceptable up for the women entrepreneurs from self-help groups, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said connected Sunday (February 1, 2026).
Presenting the Union Budget successful the Lok Sabha, the Minister called it the "next step" for these self-help radical (SHG) members, towards being "owners of enterprises".
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"Building connected the occurrence of the Lakhpati Didi programme, I suggest to assistance women instrumentality the adjacent measurement from credit-linked livelihood to being owners of enterprises," Ms. Sitharaman said.
"'Self Help Entrepreneur - SHE Marts' volition beryllium acceptable up arsenic community-owned retail outlets wrong cluster-level federations done enhanced and innovative concern instruments," she said.
A Lakhpati Didi is simply a pistillate subordinate of an SHG whose yearly household income reaches astatine slightest ₹1 lakh.
According to the Rural Development Ministry, implicit 2 crore women person go Lakhpati Didis truthful far, and the people is to person 3 crore women SHG members execute ₹1 lakh yearly income by 2027.
