The Centre today said, eight crore 41 lakh rural women members have been mobilised through Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission, DAY-NRLM, into 77 lakh 40 thosuand Self-Help Groups till 28th of last month. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, the Minister of State for Rural Development <span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">The Centre today said, eight crore 41 lakh rural women members have been mobilised through Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission, DAY-NRLM, into 77 lakh 40 thosuand Self-Help Groups till 28th of last month.</span> said, this mission has been mobilised across 721 districts and 6,842 blocks of 34 States and Union Territories. She said, these SHGs have been federated into four lakh 37 thousand Village Organisations and over 28 thousand Cluster Level Federations.<br />'' <br />'' Sadhvi Jyoti said, DAY-NRLM has also trained around four lakh community resource persons who are skilled in different thematic areas such as gender, financial inclusion, livelihood promotion and nutrition. She said, over 39 lakh SHGs have been provided with revolving funds and 22 lakh 21 thousand SHGs have been also provided with Community Investment Funds as capital support till June this year.<br />'' <br />'' The Minister said, the Centre is also implementing various schemes for socio-economic upliftment of rural areas and its people.<br />''