Odisha Government on Wednesday announced to gift smartphones to six lakh women Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to make them digitally empowered.Emphasising on promotion of women entrepreneurship on the fourth day of Make-in-Odisha conclave 2018 on Wednesday, C M Naveen Patnaik said his dream is to see that every woman has access to knowledge economy.
“As a first step, my Government will digitally empower all groups with a smartphone under the Mission Shakti programme. Whenever we have made an initiative, whether Mamata or Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana or land rights, the State always runs extra mile for women,” he said.
The announcement came a day after CMD of Reliance Industries Limited Mukesh Ambani said here that his company was working on an initiative in the State to integrate several lakh women with the digital mainstream.
Read more of this in a report published in The New Indian Express....
