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E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p
Awareness Programme
at Vaijnath.

Project UDAYA Promotes Entrepreneurship among Women/PwDs
... Support of Tata Communications

Raigad & Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra bears a new face after four years of
implementation of Project UDAYA. The project aims at creating awareness about
entrepreneurship among the target beneficiaries and specifically training the selected
ones in the area of identifying business opportunity, setting up a business and running it
sustainably. In all, 1763 women have been sensitized on Entrepreneurship, till date, and
321 women have been holistically trained to set up own business. As on date, 85 women
have commenced their businesses. They are now making a contribution to development
by generating employment and wealth. While their average monthly income is around Rs.
10,000, they have together generated employment for 95 people. The trained women
entrepreneurs have started their businesses in areas as diverse as food processing,
garments, edible oil, tea packaging, restaurant, home stay etc.

This project has been implementing in Maharashtra for four years. During the last two
months, 2 Women Entrepreneurship Development Programmes were conducted - one at
Lanja (Dist. Ratnagiri) and another at Kalamboli (Dist. Raigad), 61 women are trained under
two WEDPs. Dr. Prakash Solanki is the Project Director.

Micro Skillpreneurship Development
... Supported by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL)

Entrepreneurship as an ally to address the growth needs of population at the bottom of
the pyramid has been amply proven. Through Microskillpreneurship Development
Programmes, with the support of HAL, EDII, is proactively building skills to promote
entrepreneurship, especially amongst women geographically disadvantaged sections of
the society, including SCs, STs, OBCs, minorities, and differently abled persons across 3
districts viz Chikkaballapur, Kolar and Bangalore Rural in Karnataka state.

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