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To promote UP State Rural Livelihood Mission, 3,304 solar shops will be opened in Uttar Pradesh, all run by women, focusing on the use and sale of solar products.
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- Additionally, a Surya Sakhi will also be made in every Gram Panchayat.
- UP State Rural Livelihood Mission (UPSRLM) has set this target for the next three years and work has also been started to achieve it.
- Under UPSRLM, efforts have been going on for a long time to provide self-employment to women by linking them with self-help groups which are prospering through various business activities.
- Previously, an initiative was introduced to make women from these groups Banking Correspondent (BC) Sakhi and Vidyut Sakhi. Now, the government has started an initiative to connect women with solar energy products.
- According to the action plan prepared for the next three years, a solar product manufacturing unit will be established in every division.
- Four solar shops will be set up in each of the 826 blocks across the state, totaling 3,304 solar shops, all of which will be managed by women.
- The department aims to link 20,000 women-led enterprises with Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) products, including solar freezers, cold storage, flour mills, dryers, water pumps, and food processing machines.
In the first phase, the goal is to connect 10,000 enterprises with these products.
