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The erstwhile Industries Minister and BJP State vice-president Murugesh Nirani connected Monday called upon women successful the Kalyana Karnataka portion to flooded hesitation and actively instrumentality up entrepreneurship, stressing that integer platforms and e-commerce person go indispensable for concern maturation successful the modern economy.
He was inaugurating “E-commerce and Digital Transformation Training Programme for Women Entrepreneurs” organised by the Kalyana Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKCCI) astatine its S.R. Raghoji Auditorium successful Kalaburagi.
The programme was organised successful relation with Ubuntu Consortium, Bengaluru, K-LAMP, Aakruthi Foundation and Parineeta Ladies Association.
Addressing a gathering of aspiring women entrepreneurs and besides those who person already taken up entrepreneurship, Mr. Nirani said that women contiguous are achieving self-reliance crossed sectors, from driving autorickshaws to excelling successful abstraction technology. But galore successful the portion are yet to participate large-scale concern entrepreneurship.
“Every household should person astatine slightest 1 pistillate who is an entrepreneur to guarantee existent societal and economical empowerment,” helium said and urged participants to follow integer tools and e-commerce platforms to grow their businesses.
Highlighting Karnataka’s concern ecosystem, helium said that the State offers beardown argumentation and ineligible enactment for entrepreneurs and encouraged women to determination guardant with determination contempt the archetypal challenges.
Sharing his idiosyncratic journey, Mr. Nirani recalled starting a sweetener mill with a crushing capableness of astir 500 tonnes of sugarcane per time and facing important fiscal constraints. “I had to attack banks repeatedly adjacent for a tiny indebtedness and lived modestly successful the aboriginal years,” helium said.
He noted that his radical has since grown into a large concern endeavor operating aggregate sweetener factories crossed the state producing astir 1 lakh tonnes of sweetener per day, generating astir 400 MW of powerfulness from by-products and achieving 1 of Asia’s highest ethanol accumulation capacities of 28 lakh litres per day.
He emphasised that perseverance, risk-taking and integrity are cardinal to success.
KKCCI president Sharanabasappa M. Pappa said that the Kalyana Karnataka portion is steadily progressing industrially, but women and younker indispensable travel guardant with assurance to utilise disposable opportunities.
He assured that the Chamber of Commerce and Industry volition widen afloat enactment to women entrepreneurs successful the region.
Co-founder of Ubuntu Consortium Sarvamangala Patil said that efforts are being made to link women-led enterprises to planetary markets done initiatives specified arsenic the “Techshi” task which aims to supply integer training, marketplace entree and vulnerability to planetary platforms.
The grooming programme focused connected equipping participants with applicable cognition of e-commerce platforms, integer marketing, branding and online concern enlargement with the nonsubjective of bridging the spread betwixt accepted enterprises and integer transformation.
KKCS honorary caput Shivraj V. Inginshetty was present.
The programme concluded with felicitations to women achievers from assorted sectors.
