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NITI Aayog organizes 5th Edition of Women Transforming India Awards

Published: 28th Mar, 2022

Context

Recently, NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) organized the fifth edition of the Women Transforming India Awards (WTI).

About

About the Women Transforming India Awards (WTI):

  • The Women Transforming India Awards is NITI Aayog’s annual initiative to highlight the commendable and ground-breaking endeavours of India’s women leaders and change-makers.
  • The Awards is to be conferred on seventy five women achievers to celebrate their contribution towards a Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat.
  • Applications for the WTI Awards were invited under one or more than one of the following seven categories:
    • Public and Community Service
    • Manufacturing Sector
    • Non-manufacturing Sector
    • Financial Products enabling Economic Growth
    • Climate Action
    • Promote Art, Culture and Handicrafts
    • Digital Innovation

Women Entrepreneurship Platform

  • Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is an aggregator portal that aims to catalyse the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women and address information asymmetry.
  • Aim: To build a vibrant ecosystem for women-led enterprises.
  • The platform also works to strengthen industry linkages and increase awareness of existing programmes and services.
  • To date, more than 900 women entrepreneurs have been benefitted through 77 programmes and events hosted on the platform.
  • The platform played an active role during Covid-19 by conducting webinars to provide business support to women entrepreneurs and through its Masking It Up campaign, whereby women-led small businesses in India that were adversely impacted were supported.

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