{"id":403710,"date":"2026-02-02T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403710\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:41:10","slug":"union-budget-2026-she-marts-to-empower-more-women-become-lakhpati-didis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403710\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Budget 2026: \u2018SHE-Marts\u2019 to empower more women become lakhpati didis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lakhpati-didis.jpg\" alt=\"Union Budget 2026: \u2018SHE-Marts\u2019 to empower more women become lakhpati didis\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Building on the \u2018Lakhpati Didi\u2019 programme, the Budget saw FM <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nirmala-sitharaman\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nirmala Sitharaman<\/a> announcing a proposal to set up \u2018SHE-Marts\u2019 for rural women-led enterprises.\u201cBuilding on the success of the Lakhpati Didi programme, I propose to help women take the next step from credit-led livelihoods to being owners of enterprises,\u201d she said. \u201cSelfHelp Entrepreneur (SHE) Marts will be set up as communityowned retail outlets within cluster-level federations through enhanced and innovative financing instruments.\u201d Officials said it will lend momentum to efforts to bring in more women SHG members into \u201cLakhpati Didi\u201d (whose household annual income is at least Rs 1 lakh) programme by increasing marketing avenues. <\/p>\n<p>PM Modi Calls Budget 2026 Historic As Reforms Empower Youth Women And India\u2019s Growth Push<\/p>\n<p> Over 2.5 crore women had become Lakhpati Didis as of Sept 2025. The aim is to have 3 crore women achieve Rs 1 lakh annual income by March 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Building on the \u2018Lakhpati Didi\u2019 programme, the Budget saw FM Nirmala Sitharaman announcing a proposal to set up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,150743,150742,55355,150741,56,54,55,83655],"class_list":["post-403710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-income-generation-for-women","tag-lakhpati-didi","tag-nirmala-sitharaman","tag-she-marts","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-women-empowerment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}