Women entrepreneurs are essential to India's economic growth and development
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Lakshmi Venkataraman Venkatesan
Summary
This article argues that India's economic development depends on empowering women entrepreneurs to participate equally in enterprise creation and growth. It highlights how women across India are building businesses in various sectors—manufacturing, retail, services, agriculture—and solving local problems through innovation despite facing barriers like limited finance, mobility, market access, and family permission. The piece calls for systemic support to unlock women's entrepreneurial potential as a driver of national economic growth.
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· 3 pulledIndia's journey towards becoming a developed economy cannot be achieved unless women entrepreneurs become equal participants in enterprise creation, employment generation and economic growth.
Across villages, towns and cities, women are building businesses in manufacturing, retail trade, services, agriculture and allied activities.
Many of them are also solving local problems through practical innovation, whether in production, services, climate-conscious practices, digital adoption or community-based business models, despite facing barriers of finance, mobility, markets, family permission.
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