New Delhi, Dec 12 (KNN) Total 1067 women entrepreneurs have registered from the state of Tamil Nadu on Udyam Sakhi till October 2022, informed MoS MSME Bhanu Pratap Verma in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Monday. 

Vellore district has the highest number of women entrepreneurs at 360, followed by Ranipet 334. 

The trailing districts are Tiruvannamalai at 210 and Salem at 163.

Rest all the districts including Chennai have zero women registered on the portal till October, 2022.

The Udyam Sakhi Portal (https://udyam-sakhi.com) provides the information regarding financial schemes, policies, programmes of the Ministry of MSME to existing/prospective women entrepreneurs in the MSME sector.  

Based on composite criteria of classification of MSMEs on account of investment in plant & machinery and turnover of MSMEs, the Ministry has replaced the erstwhile process of filing of Udyog Aadhar Memorandum by Udyam registration including Women entrepreneurs on online portal https://udyamregistration.gov.in from July 2020.   (KNN Bureau)