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India Aims for 40% Rural Women Workforce by 2024

2/11/2025

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India's 2025-26 Union budget is set to empower rural women, boosting their workforce participation from 22% in 2017-18 to an ambitious 40.3% by 2023-24. Despite hurdles like limited access to finance and skills training, initiatives such as the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana have already sanctioned an impressive 5.41 lakh crore, uplifting 6.68 crore women entrepreneurs.

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India's 2025-26 Union budget is set to empower rural women, boosting their workforce participation from 22% in 2017-18 to an ambitious 40.3% by 2023-24. Despite hurdles like limited access to finance and skills training, initiatives such as the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana have already sanctioned an impressive 5.41 lakh crore, uplifting 6.68 crore women entrepreneurs.