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This is an Education loan scheme to enable the ST students to meet expenditure for pursuing technical and professional education including Ph.D. in India. Under this scheme, the Corporation provides financial assistance up to ₹10.00 lakh per eligible family at concessional rate of interest of 6% per annum.
Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB; lit. ' Indian Women's Bank ' ) was a fully owned subsidiary of State Bank of India based in Mumbai, India . Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the system on 19 November 2013 on the occasion of the 96th birth anniversary of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi . [ 1 ]
A public activist for women's emancipation, she founded the Andhra Mahila Sabha (Andhra Women's Conference) in 1937. She was also the founder chairperson of the Central Social Welfare Board. In 1953, she married C.D. Deshmukh , the first Indian governor of the Reserve Bank of India and Finance Minister in India's Central Cabinet from 1950 to 1956.
In 1997, she set up the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank – India's first bank for and by rural women. Mann Deshi Bank had 100,000 account holders and had loaned over US$50 million to support female micro-entrepreneurs in 2018. Mann Deshi Foundation runs Business Schools, a Community Radio and a Chambers of Commerce for rural women micro ...
Bharatiya Grameen Mahila Sangh or BGMS (National Association of Rural Women India), founded in 1955, is a non-political and non-sectarian national organization with branches all over India, in 14 states and union territories.
Mahila Milan (Hindi: 'women together') is a self-organised, decentralised collective of female pavement dwellers in Bombay. The group works with issues such as housing, sanitation, and grassroots lending schemes. It aims at gaining women equal recognition for improvement of their communities, while indulging in important decision making ...
Mahila Seva Samaja is an educational institution in Bangalore, Karnataka, [1] [2] [3] established by Parvatiamma Chandrashekar Iyer. The name Mahila Seva Samaja translates as "Women's Service Society". It was founded for the upliftment of women and exclusively for the education of women, in 1913. It was officially named as Mahila Seva Samaja in ...
Rashtriya Gaurav Gram Sabha Puruskar along with the cash prize of ₹10 lakhs in 2013. [54] Rajiv Gandhi panchayat Sashaktikaran Abhiyaan Puruskar along with the cash prize of ₹15 lakhs in 2014. [54] It was the first time any panchayat received these awards from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India. [54]