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04th Oct 2021
NITI AAYOG TO FELICITATE 75 WOMEN ACHIEVERS AS PART OF AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV CELEBRATIONS
To celebrate the 75th year of independence, Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP), will felicitate 75 women achievers as part of the Amrit Mahotsav celebration.
- Women Transforming India Awards (WTI) 2021 will celebrate the contribution of women entrepreneurs towards ‘Sashakt aur Samarath Bharat’ – by building self-sufficient businesses and/or overcoming challenges via unique business solutions.
- The WTI Awards is NITI Aayog’s endeavour to recognise and celebrate stories of exceptional women change-makers from across India.
- Since 2018, the WTI Awards have been hosted under the aegis of the Women Entrepreneurship Platform with a focus on ‘Women and Entrepreneurship’.
- The awards continue to bring to the fore, inspiring female role models charting impact across the country.
- The nomination for the award can be done under one or more than one of the seven categories
- Public and Community Service,
- Manufacturing Sector,
- Non-manufacturing Sector,
- Financial Products enabling Economic Growth,
- Climate Action,
- Promote Art, Culture and Handicrafts
- Digital Innovation.
- Applications will go through a three-stage evaluation process consisting of independent assessment, jury and super jury rounds.
- 75 inspiring women entrepreneurs breaking the glass ceiling will be identified.
- These winners will be felicitated on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8th March, 2022.
- The WEP seeks to transform the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women by bringing together stakeholders offering information and services to address the existing information asymmetry.
- It is based on the three pillars of Iccha Shakti, Gyan Shakti and Karma Shakti.
- The platform provides incubation support, mentorship, funding avenues, compliance/taxation support and peer learning.
- The vote will result in the election of the Shura Council, an advisory and legislative body that is tasked with approving, rejecting and issuing general state policies and law proposals.
- In addendum, the council has the onus of overlooking the state budget.
- The Consultative Assembly of Saudi, also known as Majlis ash-Shura or Shura Council, is the formal advisory body of Saudi Arabia.
- It is a legislative body that advises the King on issues that are important to Saudi Arabia.
- It has the power to propose laws to the King of Saudi Arabia and his cabinet to prove it and pass it.
- It has 150 members headed by a Speaker.
- Since 2013, the Assembly has included 30 female members out of the total of 150 members, after a 20 percent minimum quota for women was imposed.
- The Assembly is based in al-Yamamah Palace, Riyadh.
- The severe Cyclonic Storm originated in the Arabian Sea from the remnants of Cyclonic Storm Gulab.
- Gulab originated on a low-pressure area situated over Bay of Bengal on September 24, 2021.
- The portal is a single point access to all information relating to wetlands of India.
- It will process information and make it available to the stakeholders in an efficient and accessible manner. It also hosts capacity building material, data repository, videos and information for students.
- It has been developed under a Technical Cooperation project “Wetlands Management for Biodiversity and Climate Protection” of MoEFCC in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.
- The project is commissioned by German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety under the International Climate Initiative.
- The initiative has been named as the “One Gram Panchayat (GP) one Business Correspondents (BC) Sakhi” mission.
- Aim: To boost digital transactions amongst SHGs and their members.
- The women SHG members are provided one week's residential training at Rural Self Employment Training Institutes established by the Lead bank of the district.
- More than 54000 Women SHG members have been trained and certified by Indian Institute of Banking and Finance as Business Correspondent.
- The cost of training and IIBF Certification is borne by the Ministry of Rural Development.
- Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihoods Mission has signed a (MoU) with CSC e-Governance India Ltd, to engage women SHG members as 'DigiPay Sakhi'.
- Aim: To provide basic banking facilities in the rural areas.
- It provides Finger Print Device to SHGs members to start basic banking service through Digi Pay Application.
- It will provide payment facilities for MGNREGA and other subsidies under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to the rural community.
- Aim: To make Cows to be economically useful by proper economic use of Cow Dung and Cow Urine along with its Milks, Curd, Ghee.
- More than 300 items are made by Panchgavya from Cow.
- This includes Deepawali items like – Deepak, Lamps, Candles, Sambrani cup, incense sticks, Hard board, Wall piece, Laxmi-Ganesh idols etc made up of Cow dung.
- The Gomaya lamps made by Cow owners will save the environment by providing eco-friendly alternative to chemical based Chinese lights.
- In 2020 Cow dung Deepak, lamps were manufactured across India.
- The initiative will promote large number of Cow dung based Start Ups; cow entrepreneurs will get benefitted by the campaign.
- The Eco-friendly campaign will help Gaushalas to become Self Sustainable.
POSTED ON 04-10-2021 BY ADMIN
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