A two-day National Conference on Women Entrepreneurship is being organized by Rabindranath Tagore University that began on Friday.
It was inaugurated by Prof. Director of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Shalini Bharat, Executive Vice President Siddharth Chaturvedi of AISECT Group and Pallavi Rao Chaturvedi, Executive Vice President of AISECT Group were present. The conference is being organized in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai's Center for Social Entrepreneurship and AIC-RNTU Foundation.
During this inaugural session, the Director of Mentata Institute of Social Sciences Prof. Shalini Bharat, in her statement, talked about providing more facilities and facilities to women entrepreneurs so that they can move up to par. At the same time, he also pointed out that many women doing good work in rural areas are often not counted as entrepreneurs, which limits their chances.
After this, Pallavi Rao Chaturvedi said that women entrepreneurship should be seen as a major topic and issue so that more discussion and more work can be done on it. At the same time, he said that it is necessary to provide support on behalf of her family to advance women in the field of entrepreneurship. He also pointed out the problem by saying that it is often seen that the owner of the business is a woman but she is being run completely by a man, which needs a change.
During the inaugural session, Siddharth Chaturvedi said that the women have not yet received the required representation they deserve. That is why they need to be constantly promoted. He said that the percentage of women working in the social sector is 25 to 40 per cent which is better than other sector but it needs to be increased in all areas. Siddharth Chaturvedi also gave several suggestions to promote women entrepreneurs, in which he talked about getting more and more number of awards for women, women-centric hackathons, idiathons, app making challenges.
This was followed by an expert session on the topic 'Enterprise, Woman and Impact' in which Jaipur Rugs Chairman and Managing Director N.K. Chaudhary shared several tips on running the business and explained the "Mana Chabad Project" initiative.
The second expert session discussed 'Business Model and Inclusion' in which Ajita Shah, CEO and Founder of Frontier Markets and Founder of 'Udyogini' and Vanita Viswanath, Board Member of Jagriti Group of Initiatives, shared their experience on business growth and women's participation and Views shared. A large number of students, teachers and entrepreneurs participated in the conference.