AFARM in partnership with L&T Financial Services (LTFS) has launched ‘Digital Sakhi’ a programme on digital financial inclusion for the rural women on June 29, 2017.

The programme will be run on a pilot basis in 32 villages of Pune, Solapur and Osmanabad districts of Maharashtra.

‘Digital Sakhi’ is a rural woman, with a digital device in hand, equipped with skills and knowledge to confidently impart digital financial literacy training to women in the pilot villages. The program will develop a team of 100 ‘Digital Sakhis’ as digital enablers, who in turn will impart training to 1,000 women entrepreneurs to conduct daily transactions using digital modes of payments.

The launch was graced by the Divisional Commissioner, Hon.Shri.Chandrakant Dalvi and other government officials from representative districts. The programme concluded with distribution of tablets and kits to the Digital Sakhis.