To make women economically independent is necessary to raise social level of India for these aims, the government of India apart from various state governments has proposed various schemes in this direction, in last decade.
i. In 1992-93, a National women fund was proposed to meet requirements of lows to poor women for their economic upliftment.
ii. In April 1989, Jawahar Rozgar Yojna was started for rural employment, increase an assistance to be implemented through Panchayati Raj. This scheme also delivered its funfists to women.
iii. Mahila Samridhi Yojana on 2nd October, 1993 was aimed at developing saving habits among rural women and to proud them economic security through higher interest rate over their savings
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iv. Indira, Mahila Yojana in 1995 was started to create awareness among the women and made them available economic resources. All these are the measures taken to achieve the goal of economic independence and self- reliance among women in the last decade.
Note:
Before and after the decade of 1987- 1997, many schemes in this line have been introduced, but not undaunhed in this question. Because it asks only those measures taken in last one decade (only those schemes, proposed in the last decade from 1997, is mentioned here, care should be taken to change according to the year of question)