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20 per cent of every 1000 MSMEs in India are women owned: Govt Data

Updated: Jan 03, 2018 07:48:00am
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20 per cent of every 1000 MSMEs in India are women owned: Govt Data

New Delhi, Jan 3 (KNN) The women entrepreneurs are increasing with the government implementing several schemes to promote entrepreneurship among women Minister of State (I/C) for Micro, Small and Enterprises, MSME Minister Giriraj Singh informed in a written reply to Lok Sabha.

Citing statistics, the Minister said that 195 proprietary MSMEs per 1000 MSMEs are owned by women in the entire country. 93 proprietary MSMEs per 1000 MSMEs are owned by women in Delhi.

According to the data furnished by the Ministry, India has witnessed a rise in women participation but inter-state growth has been unbalanced. Manipur, Mizoram, Telengana being the states with maximum women based MSMEs among per 1000 MSMES ranging to 481, 393 and 373 respectively.

On the other side, there is dismissing number in states like Uttarakhand, Assam, Bihar with only 50-55 women proprietors, the data revealed by National Sample Survey Office under Ministry of Statistics informed.

Schemes including the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), Micro & Small Enterprises Cluster Development (MSE-CDP) and Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI) are in place to achieve better trends, MSME Minister informed.

In terms of employment, Daman & Die and Lakshadweep lack way behind West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh which provide maximum employment to women in the nation.

Alike everywhere in the world, women in Indian start-up ecosystem stem from financial and cultural bias which affects their fundraising and unfair valuation of their businesses.  

Earlier the 2015 Global Women Entrepreneur Leaders scorecard of 2015 ranked India at the low 29th rank of the 31 countries it evaluated assessing the ecosystem for business for women. (With PIB Inputs) (KNN/MG)

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    Plysheets 04/02/2018 6:26 PM

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