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The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is a unified access portal [clarification needed] which brings together women from different regions of India, across economies to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations.
Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an enterprise, particularly a business. [1] Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, with number of female owned businesses increasing at a rate of 5% since 1997.
Stand-Up India was launched by the Government of India on 5 April 2016 to support entrepreneurship among women and SC & ST communities. Stand Up India Loan Scheme is a government initiative launched by the Government of India in 2016 to promote entrepreneurship and facilitate bank loans to Scheduled Caste (SC) / Scheduled Tribe (ST) and women entrepreneurs in the country.
According to CSO, 59.30% rural women are self-employed and male ratio is 54.50%. This clearly indicates that the government has been undertaking proactive steps to converge the entrepreneurship in India towards development of rural women. [10]
Rupa Dash is an Indian entrepreneur and filmmaker. She was born in Cuttack, Odisha and lives in Los Angeles.An ardent advocate for social entrepreneurship, democracy building and leadership development for women, she was the first Indian American Managing Director of World's Largest Women Entrepreneurship Network.
In 2022, Singh won the AI Entrepreneur award at the Women in AI Leadership Awards [11] In 2022, Singh also won the women entrepreneur of the year award at the Indian Achiever's Forum. [12] In 2023, Singh has been awarded Champions of Change for driving social development in India. [13] [14] [15]
The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (Hindi: कौशल विकास और उद्यमशीलता मंत्रालय) is a ministry of the Government of India which came into existence on 9 November 2014 [2] and gazetted on 8 December 2014.
SEWA originated in 1972 as the Association's Women's Wing of Textile Labour Association (TLA), which was established by Gandhi in 1918. [11] SEWA is located in Ahmedabad, India, the city where Gandhi's ashram still exists and once served to facilitate much of the Mahatma's work.