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Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment initiative

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    10Pointer
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    Polity & Governance
  • Published
    7th Aug, 2020
  • Recently Eleven women entrepreneurs have been shortlisted under ‘Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment' initiative supported by the Department of Science and Technology.
  • It is the country's first-of-its-kind initiative to strengthen women's ecosystem.
  • The initiative has been founded by IIT Delhi and is supported by the Department of Science and Technology.
  • The aim of the initiative is to focus and ignite a fire amongst women from a college-going student to a middle-aged housewife to embrace entrepreneurship as a viable fulfilling career option.
  • The cash awards, in the form of a grant totalling Rs 25 lakh, will be presented to the 11 women entrepreneurs.

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