Lucknow, Dec. 12 -- In a significant push to bring India's rural women into the fast-evolving AI economy, Saral Jeevan India Foundation, Frontier Markets, and Microsoft India on Friday have announced a landmark partnership to equip 30,000 women from Self-Help Groups (SHGs) with AI skills.

The initiative-part of the expanding She Leads Bharat: Udyam programme-aims to build a scalable national model capable of empowering one million women entrepreneurs and reaching 100 million rural households by 2030.

Under this collaboration, 25,000 rural women entrepreneurs and 5,000 women trainers will receive AI-led digital literacy, business tools, and practical training designed to enhance their income, boost their entrepreneurial capacity, and prepa...