evidence: NEW DELHI: In eight years, women entrepreneurs have come to comprise nearly a whopping 70% of the loans under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) which, on Saturday, marked eight years of the government’s aim of empowering the "Atmanirbhar Nari Shakti" and sanctioning more than 40.82 crore loans amounting to Rs 23.2 lakh crore (as on 24 March 2023), for men and women entrepreneurs. Launched on 8 April 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the aim to facilitate easy collateral-free micro credit in a seamless manner to micro enterprises in the country and allow borrowers to fulfil their entrepreneurial dreams, the PMMY enables easy and hassle-free access to credit of up to Rs 10 lakh to non-corporate, non-farm small and micro entrepreneurs for income generating activities.