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In a large propulsion towards promoting women-led enterprises and agrarian entrepreneurship, the Telangana authorities connected Friday (May 29, 2026) has launched a first-of-its-kind incubation and acceleration programme for agrarian women entrepreneurs nether the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana–National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM). The programme is expected to execute astatine slightest 15% yearly gross maturation among the supported enterprises and make betwixt 900 and 1,200 jobs successful agrarian and semi-urban areas.
The initiative, being implemented by the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP) successful concern with T-Hub, BITS Pilani and WE-Hub, aims to physique a broad ecosystem for scaling women-led agrarian enterprises successful the State.
Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Minister Danasari Anasuya Seethakka formally launched the inaugural astatine the Adivasi Bhavan successful Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, connected Friday.
Addressing the gathering, the Minister said, “Our authorities wants women to determination beyond the relation of occupation seekers and look arsenic occupation creators. This inaugural is an economical question that volition alteration the aboriginal of agrarian women successful Telangana.”
Funds for incubation, endeavor improvement enactment and zero-interest loans
The programme has a full outlay of ₹21.40 crore and volition enactment 300 high-potential women-led enterprises crossed agrarian Telangana. Of the full allocation, ₹8.74 crore has been earmarked for incubation and endeavor improvement support, portion ₹12.66 crore volition beryllium provided arsenic nonstop fiscal assistance successful the signifier of grants and zero-interest brushed loans.
As portion of the initiative, SERP, successful collaboration with BITS Pilani and T-Hub, announced the constitution of 2 abstracted dedicated incubator centres for women entrepreneurs, with an allocation of ₹10.70 crore for each incubator.
Support to selected entrepreneurs
Officials said the programme adopts a “Challenge Fund” attack to place scalable and growth-oriented enterprises. Selected entrepreneurs volition person end-to-end support, including concern diagnostics, formalisation, branding, marketplace access, integer onboarding, mentoring and fiscal guidance.
Transforming agrarian micro-enterprises into market-ready businesses
The inaugural besides envisages the usage of IT-enabled monitoring systems to way the maturation and show of enterprises. The nonsubjective is to assistance agrarian micro-enterprises modulation into self-sustaining and market-ready businesses susceptible of generating section employment opportunities.
The State presently has astir 67 lakh women associated with self-help groups (SHG). Nearly 6.43 lakh of them are already engaged successful assorted businesses crossed the State.
SERP CEO Divya Devarajan, T-Hub CEO Kavikrut, WE-Hub CEO Seetha Pallachola, SERP Non-Farm Director Johnson and others attended the event.
