Special cell to be set up in Maharashtra CMs Office to expedite schemes for women

A special cell will be set up in the Maharashtra’s Chief Minister's Office to expedite the schemes for women and to address the problems in the existing schemes. While informing about this cell, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that looking at the huge growth in the service sector, women should now make a foray in it.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said that a special cell will be set up in the Chief Minister's Office to expedite the schemes for women empowerment and to remove the hurdles in the existing schemes. He has appealed to women entrepreneurs to go beyond self-help groups and their traditional products and explore



new opportunities.

In order to uplift the living standards of women, it is necessary to increase productivity and combine productivity with the demands of the modern market.

For this, training and capacity building programs for women should be undertaken more expeditiously by giving a comprehensive look to the activities of Mahila Aarthik Vikas Mahamandal and Umed. He also assured to consider the demands to provide a wide range of online sales platforms for women-made products, and a mart on the lines of 'Delhi Haat' for the sale of women's self-help group products.