For the last eleven years, the Narendra Modi Government in the Centre has set a precedent that has been embraced by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governments in the states. The cornerstone of the socio-economic welfare of the double-engine governments has been the nation’s women.

From the earliest welfare programmes, a disproportionate focus has been on women, and rightfully so. In our nation’s social structure, when narrowed down to a household, the woman is the nucleus that holds the family and the community together. To put it metaphorically, she is the nucleus of the atom or the mitochondria of the living cell. The social evolution of a woman is the economic evolution of a community and of the country.

It is with this perspective that the Mahila Ro

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