Subscribe

0

  • Sign in with Email

By clicking the button, I accept the Terms of Use of the service and its Privacy Policy, as well as consent to the processing of personal data.

Don’t have an account? Signup

  • Bookmarks
  • My Profile
  • Log Out
  • NEWS
  • POLICIES
  • MSME OPPORTUNITIES
  • BANKING & FINANCE
  • TECHNOLOGY FOR SMES
  • SECTORS
  • GLOBAL
  • Investment
  • LEGAL
  • KNOWLEDGE QUEST
  • Future Ready Forum 2025
  • Ek Nayi Udaan
  • Future Ready Summit 2024
  • ADVERTISE WITH US
ad_close_btn
  • News
  • Policies
  • Banking & Finance
  • MSME Opportunities
  • Web Stories
  • InFocus
  • Technology For SMEs
  • Sectors
  • Global
  • Fashion

Powered by :

You have successfully subscribed the newsletter.
Finance News

NITI Aayog's Women Cell Collaborates with Financial Organizations to Uplift Women Entrepreneurship

NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurs Platform (WEP) signed five separate Statement of Intent (SoIs) with Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank Limited, Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited, SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, Sreemanta Sankar Mission and the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).

author-image
SMEStreet Desk
28 Jun 2018 04:54 IST

Follow Us

New Update
Niti Aayog

NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurs Platform (WEP) signed five separate Statement of Intent (SoIs) with Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank Limited, Indiabulls Housing Finance Limited, SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited, Sreemanta Sankar Mission and the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).

The WEP was established on the occasion of International Women's’ Day in March 2018 to substantially increase the number of women entrepreneurs who will create and empower a dynamic New India.

The WEP intends to undertake this task through its partner organizations, private as well as public organizations; by bringing their existing as well as new women-specific initiatives on a single platform, which in turn will also address knowledge gaps, promote partner connects and will increase the outreach of partner programmes.

The SoIs signed with financial institutions such as the Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank, Indiabulls Housing Finance, and SREI Infrastructure Finance shall be housed under the WEP-Finance vertical and will provide financial assistance to women entrepreneurs and address the finance-related challenges faced by them through WEP.

WEP will partner with the Sreemanta Sankar Mission of Guwahati to empower established as well as aspiring women entrepreneurs in North East India through WEP North East Chapter and will work to popularize WEP in North East so that more women entrepreneurs in that region can avail benefits under the WEP initiative. Similarly, the SoI with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a trade union and as an organization of poor, self-employed women workers, includes commitments to mobilize women entrepreneurs in rural areas and promote them in Livelihood Entrepreneurship.

Through its partner organizations, WEP aims to create opportunities and support women in order to help them realize their entrepreneurial aspirations, scale up innovative initiatives, and chalk out sustainable and long-term strategies for their businesses. WEP website which will be enriched with entrepreneurial initiatives and support programmes would guide you to schemes, initiatives and products relevant to your requirement.

The WEP is an initiative under the NITI Aayog which was launched on March 8, 2018 on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. The idea of the Platform was first mooted by Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog who announced the setting-up of a Women Entrepreneurship Platform in NITI Aayog at the conclusion of the 8th Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) held in Hyderabad in 2017 with an overarching theme of ‘Women first, Prosperity for All’.

NITI Aayog WEP Indiabulls NBFCs Women Entrepreneurship
Subscribe to our Newsletter! Be the first to get exclusive offers and the latest news
logo

Related Articles
Read the Next Article
Latest Stories
Subscribe to our Newsletter! Be the first to get exclusive offers and the latest news

Latest Stories
Latest Stories
    Powered by


    Subscribe to our Newsletter!




    Powered by
    Select Language
    English

    Share this article

    If you liked this article share it with your friends.
    they will thank you later

    Facebook
    Twitter
    Whatsapp

    Copied!