<span style="color: #222222;">Ministry of Rural Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ministry of Ayush for skilling of rural youth and empowering women. It is a historic step to make Lakhpati Didis, women with annual earnings of one lakh rupees and more, from the Self-Help Groups. Speaking on the occasion, Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh said his Ministry is working on a proactive mode to achieve the target of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to have 10 Crore SHG members by 2024. He said there were 2.35 Crore SHG members in May 2014. With a focused approach to empower rural poor women in the last 9 years, the number of SHG members has swelled to more than 9 Crore and will touch 10 crore members by 2024. The Minister said initial target is to train large number of women, which will be increased going forward. </span><br />