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The Telangana authorities volition found exclusive Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) parks for women successful each of the 119 Assembly constituencies arsenic portion of a semipermanent strategy to beforehand women’s entrepreneurship and economical empowerment, Minister for Information Technology and Industries D. Sridhar Babu announced connected Sunday.
The larger idea, helium stressed, is to presumption women arsenic the cardinal stakeholders successful the imaginativeness to alteration Telangana into a $3 trillion system by 2047.
Mr. Sridhar Babu was addressing the WE-Enable graduation ceremonial organised by WE Hub astatine Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University here.
Women empowerment, helium said, indispensable statesman wrong the household and construe into progressive information successful economical and societal life. He observed that ‘there is simply a disposable alteration successful societal attitudes towards women crossed Telangana, which signals a deeper displacement successful societal thinking’.
The Telangana’s Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLFPR) stands astatine 52.7%, higher than the nationalist mean of 45.2%. The maturation successful women’s workforce information successful the State accrued sharply from 22% during 2017–18 to 40.3% successful 2023–24, helium said citing data, and added that it reflects amended entree to employment and endeavor opportunities now.
Mr. Sridhar Babu lauded WE Hub for its important relation successful nurturing women entrepreneurs and said the projected WE Hub 2.0 inaugural would absorption connected gathering globally competitory women-led enterprises. The authorities is creating an integrated entrepreneurial ecosystem to alteration women to entree skilling, technology, finance, markets and mentorship nether 1 framework, helium informed.
“Young women are not conscionable learners — they are occupation solvers and changemakers. I impulse each young pistillate to inquire herself, “Why can’t I go a relation model?” helium said, congratulating the graduates. He urged them to determination beyond accepted employment and go occupation creators and endeavor leaders, and to lend straight to the State’s economical growth.
The ceremonial witnessed the archetypal batch of 600 women graduates. As portion of their programme, the students had schoolroom learning, real-world acquisition connected however industries function, connected handling challenges and turning ideas into action.
Sharing their travel and ideas astatine the lawsuit were movie shaper Priyanka Dutt, Olympian and entrepreneur Jwala Gutta and WE Hub CEO Sita Pallacholla.
