Several women from different sections of society, irrespective of their age and shading all vacillation gathered with several start up business ideas at Sri Krishna Institute of Administrative Training (SKIPA) on Sunday.
The butterfly project, an empowering initiative in association with Department of Industries, Government of Jharkhand and Indian Chamber of Commerce organised a programme on women empowerment focusing on start-ups and entrepreneur projects. The Butterfly project also authorizes those segments of society which have been long exploited and suppressed targeting rural hamlets.
The event was organised with the basic motto to equip entrepreneur with all fundamentals of initiating business covering different facets like bank loans and schemes, communication skills, legal aspects, taxation procedure, digital marketing including business plans for small, medium and large projects.
Experts from diverse section explained the budding women entrepreneurs present in the workshop various methods, technical requirement, Government Policies and other aspects to start new venture giving emphasis on Single window system. It was first of its kind all women entrepreneur workshop, where women too interacted and proposed several ideas about their innovative endeavour.
Addressing the business enthusiasts at SKIPA, K Ravi Kumar, Director Industries, informed, “All business proceedings has been eased by the State Government, looking at the present scenario. New ideas will be supported by the Government according to its feasibility.
Through single window system, the start up projects can be easily established now. For different proposals and commercially viable projects, State Government has fixed different subsidy for the diverse plans. The department has tied up with five reputed institutes which include NIT-Jamshedpur, IIM-R, Birsa Agriculture University, XlRI for start-up ventures.”
Sharing the experience as woman entrepreneur and overwhelm with the response received through the start up venture of ‘Green garbage bags’ used for disposal of waste, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), senior scientist, Mita Tarafder, said, “I started the business in 2015 with few girls with the idea to completely discard polythene bags, one of the vital reasons for environmental degradation and slowly the concept became popular especially among housewives and kids. Presently, we just cover small segment of Jamshedpur but if even 25 per cent of households start using these eco-friendly bags, in an average we need to make one lac bags on monthly basis.”
Presently, the project is operational only in Kolkata and Jamshedpur. The NGO Relearn Foundation based in Jamshedpur is training students and girls to make these eco-friendly yet sturdy bags. Approximately, 15 thousand paper bags are sold out each month at Jamshedpur. Tarafder has planned to further expand this ambitious project in different cities too through various marketing strategies including social media.
Tarafder first endeavor was couple of years ago with Digital literacy Mission (DlM) project, which grooms slum children in academics and other extra-curricular activities.