700 SHE-MARTs, 1,000 District Fulfilment Centres to be set up to ensure 6 crore lakpati didis

• SHE-MARTs (Self-Help Entrepreneur Marts) are community-owned retail outlets nested in Cluster-Level Federations (CLFs) to market SHG-made products; District Fulfilment Centres (DFCs) are the logistics/aggregation backbone feeding them.
• Announced as the marketing-and-market-access pillar of the Lakhpati Didi mission under DAY-NRLM, targeting 6 crore Lakhpati Didis (SHG women earning ≥ ₹1 lakh/annum sustainably).
• UPSC relevance: GS-II (welfare schemes, women empowerment) and GS-III (rural economy, SHG-led inclusive growth, ONDC-linked e-commerce for the bottom of the pyramid).