Shakti scheme: Free bus travel by 41 crore women..!?
Under the shakti Yojana, which was launched on june 11, more than 60 lakh women traveled on an average daily in government transport buses. Accordingly, till august 17, 41.33 crore women passengers have benefited from the shakti Yojana. cm Siddaramaiah expressed his happiness on social media about the success of shakti Yojana and said that crores of women across the country are traveling for livelihood purposes including employment, education and medical needs. Thus, we implemented shakti Yojana with the objective of making women and students free travel in government transport buses and making them financially independent. Since the implementation of the scheme till now more than 40 crore women passengers have traveled for free and the objective of our scheme has been successfully fulfilled. He said it made him happy.