Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) has taken a step towards empowering women in tribal community and forging a stronger entrepreneurship ecosystem. To achieve the same, the tribal women have been urged to come forward to take up entrepreneurship options utilizing various government schemes.
An entrepreneurship awareness programme was organized by ITDA in association with Women Entrepreneurship Hub (WE- Hub) at Bhadrachalam in the district on Monday. ITDA Assistant Project Officer K Nagao Rao, Statistical Officer M Suresh Babu, Project Horticulture Officer B Prakash Patil along with representatives of WE-Hub, Shruthi and Narasimha addressed the tribal women.
They said the Tribal Welfare Department was implementing several schemes and offering financial assistance to promote entrepreneurship among tribes in agency villages. Women should earn livelihood by setting up small scale industries, they said.
WE-Hub, India’s first State-led incubator exclusively for women entrepreneurs, has been helping women to set up enterprises, imparting skills, teaching strategies for growth. Hence, tribal women in the district should make use of the services of WE-Hub, APO (Power) M Anuradha said.
Small scale industries like soap making and food processing units could be set up in the district, WE-Hub representatives suggested, while explaining marketing techniques. Academic and Community Mobilisation Officer PMRC, T Ramanaiah and others were present.
