While launching the Mukh Mantri Mawan Dhiyan Satkar Yojana, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann remarked that women would no longer need to ask the men in their families for money to buy suits. Supporters hailed it as a step towards financial independence, while critics argued that reducing women's empowerment to spending money on consumer needs overlooks larger aspirations such as employment, entrepreneurship, education and economic self reliance. At a time when Punjab faces mounting debt and fiscal challenges, one deeper question emerges: Should the Government's vision for women end with helping them spend, or begin with helping them earn ? Is true empowerment measured by cash assistance, or by creating opportunities that eliminate dependence altogether ?

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