NITI Aayog launches Women Entrepreneurship Platform on International Women’s Day
New Delhi, Mar 8 (IBNS): NITI Aayog, on Thursday, launched the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP), on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
The initiative is aimed at building an ecosystem for women across India to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations, scale-up innovative initiatives and chalk-out sustainable, long-term strategies for their businesses, the Aayog said in an official release.
CEO, NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, launched the WEP platform at NITI Aayog premises New Delhi in the presence of UN Resident Coordinator in India -- Yuri Afanasiev, Kailash Kher, industry leaders and supporting partners.
WEP was envisaged by the CEO NITI Aayog during Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) last year in Hyderabad.
Established under the leadership of Anna Roy, Adviser (Industry) of NITI Aayog, the platform aspires to power entrepreneurial ecosystem through an enabling network of industry collaborations, partnerships, mentors and peer-to-peer connect.
According to the release, WEP is built on three pillars: Ichha Shakti (motivating aspiring entrepreneurs to start their enterprise), Gyaan Shakti (providing knowledge and ecosystem support to women entrepreneurs to help them foster entrepreneurship) and Karma Shakti (providing hands-on support to entrepreneurs in setting-up and scaling up businesses).
WEP has launched an informative, interactive website to act as a dedicated resource and knowledge base, including information across government and private sector schemes and initiatives.
From providing unique services such as credit evaluation of women-led startups by CRISIL and potential equity investments through a rupees 10 crore fund established by DICE Districts, the WEP opens up avenues of growth and opportunity for women entrepreneurs, the release said.
Other partner commitments include ShopClues.com, which has offered to provide internship and dedicated mentorship, and Mann Deshi Foundation who will provide digital and financial literacy to aspiring women entrepreneurs.
Several other leading corporates and industry bodies viz. NASSCOM, CII, FICCI, SIDBI and Facebook have partnered with WEP to provide business acceleration, mentorship and other start-up support for women entrepreneurs, details of which can be accessed on https://wep.gov.in.
The WEP theme song “Naari Shakti” composed and sung by Kailash Kher was released on this occasion.
Nominations for the Women Transforming India Awards, 2018 were also opened by Amitabh Kant and Yuri Afanasiev.
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