Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced that 50,000 female undergraduate

CM Yogi Adityanath announces several gifts for women ahead of Rakshabandhan

Lucknow: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced that 50,000 female undergraduate students would be given scooters in Oct-Nov. At the programme organised at Indira Gandhi Pratishthan, the CM also launched the Lokmata Ahilyabai Matrushakti Yatra scheme, under which women aged 60 years and above will be able to travel free of cost in UPSRTC buses. Yogi also announced that women, along with one companion, would be eligible for free bus travel from Aug 27 to 29 on Raksha Bandhan.

He also announced several gifts for women ahead of Raksha Bandhan and said women were progressing “from chulha to cheques, from cheques to businesses and from businesses to technology.

“There are approximately 12.5 crore women in UP. “Before 2017, ‘Dekha Sapaai, bitiya ghabraai’ was a norm. In UP, there were 10,000 women police personnel in 2017, and now the number has increased to 45,000.

Double engine govt has worked to connect the journey of a daughter from birth to education, security, employment, income and the flight of her dreams with an ecosystem,” he said. Lokmata had undertaken the restoration of hundreds of temples across the country, including Kashi Vishwanath and Somnath,” he said. When curfews were imposed, mothers and sisters faced the greatest difficulties,” he said. The CM said UP was the first in the country to deploy women police.

Govt is a partner in the journey of women’s security, dignity, self-reliance and leadership. Our policy is that every daughter, sister and mother should feel self-reliant. “When the country was under the grip of Mughals, Lokmata Ahilyabai Holkar presented an example of good governance, preservation of spiritual and cultural heritage and women’s self-reliance. There was no integrated helpline, command system, CCTV network, women beat system, or women help desk. Middlemen decided pensions and scholarships. Mafias controlled supplementary nutrition. Disturbances occurred before festivals.