Prime Minister Narendra Modi will tomorrow address a post-Budget webinar on ‘Economic Empowerment of Women’ being organized jointly by the Ministries of Women and Child Development and Rural Development.
The webinar is part of a series of post-Budget webinars being organized by the Government, with an aim to brainstorm and firm up pathways for sustainable growth of women-owned and women-led business enterprises and develop a strategy and blueprint for implementation of the Budget announcements.
Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani, Union Minister of Rural Development Giriraj Singh and Minister of State of Women and Child Development Mahendrabhai Munjpara, along with officials from public and private sectors will join the inaugural session.
This will be followed by a presentation by the Secretary, Women and Child Development to set the tone of the webinar on Budget implementation strategy.
Following the inaugural Session, three break-out sessions under themes of Scaling up SHGs into large business enterprises/collectives; Leveraging Technology & Finance; and Markets and Business Expansion will see extensive deliberations by domain experts and women self-help group federations. The break-out sessions are expected to come out with practical and implementable solutions.
The webinar will be joined by moderators, domain experts and speakers in the field. It will be webcast live. Participants of the webinar will include government functionaries, Women Self-Help Group members/Federations, Representatives of Public and Private Sector Banks, Agri-Tech companies, Civil Society Organizations, academic institutions, members of Commerce and Industry Chambers, members of SRLM, and public at large.
The Budget Speech of Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman referred to economic empowerment of women. The announcement stated that “remarkable success achieved by DAY-NRLM in mobilizing 81 lakh Self Help Groups, is to be taken to next stage of economic empowerment through formation of large producer enterprises or collectives by appropriate interventions in supply of raw materials, assistance for better design, quality, branding and marketing of their products, to scale up their operations in a professionally managed way in order to serve the large consumer markets, and turn few of them as Unicorns.”