‘Daughters can operate drones too’, PM Modi's aim to break ‘social psyche’ about women

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Narendra Modi on Saturday talked about “breaking the social psyche" of people who wonder if women drive tractors in villages, saying daughters can operate drones too. Addressing the India Today Conclave here, PM Modi asserted that he distributed agricultural drones to 1,000 drones to women's self-help groups in villages under the Namo Drone Didi Yojana, aiming to empower them technologically and economically. “People are still surprised when daughters operate tractors in villages.

I desired to destroy this person's mind. I wanted to demonstrate that daughters are also capable of flying drones," the Prime Minister said. “Agriculture and women in rural areas will be transformed by these drones.

Now known as drone pilots, these women from rural areas who may never have ridden a bicycle," he stated. The Prime Minister called it a ‘crucial scheme’, and a move to ‘uplift the rural agricultural economy’, India Today reported. “I would have given it to any young man if it had been just another drone distribution program.

However, I carefully considered giving it to women's hands because, in any village, even now, people find it extremely strange when a girl operates a tractor. My goal was to destroy this mentality," he added. PM Modi said the BJP government has developed an “entirely new model of governance" in the last 10 years.