Empowerment is essential to ensure all groups contribute to and fairly benefit from growth
            processes in a country. Successive Indian governments have made great efforts and taken
            comprehensive measures to empower various marginalized groups in society, such as Scheduled
            casts and scheduled tribes, women, disabled, among other sections.
            India is focused on empowering women by facilitating their access to skilling, economic resources,
            employment opportunities, property and other productive assets and mentoring. The country has
            also instituted various measures to support marginalized classes in education, skilling and
            employment.
            India has also made massive progress in ensuring women's empowerment through a variety of
            measures aimed at helping those sections that were oppressed. These include schemes to promote
            girl-child education such as Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana, etc., and
            campaigns to bring awareness to the most remote areas.
            In recent years, government initiatives such as Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala
            Yojana, Ayushman Bharat, Jal Jeevan Mission, Direct Bank transfers, among others, have played a
            huge role in empowering the vulnerable sections of society by providing them with a much-needed
            safety net.