Why women run fewer than 13% of India’s small businesses
Loan applications of female entrepreneurs are more likely to be delayed or rejected, studies show. Representational image. | Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters
Software entrepreneur Niyati Chander, 30, ran into gender bias fairly early in her career. A Bengaluru-based management graduate, she had set up a software enterprise, a Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise with eight employees in June 2020. “I wanted to be in control of where I am going in life,” she said.
From investors and government officials to real estate agents and even friends and former colleagues, Chander found that she was not being taken seriously. “People assume you do not know what you want,” she said. “When we were looking for office space, the emails from the landlord would go to my male co-founder though it was made clear that I am the main founder – it was assumed that the final call would be his.”
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Assam Agarbatti Unit To Curb Import, Generate Jobs
by Arun Kumar Das - Feb 19, 2021 05:51 AM
Agarbatti industry taking off in Assam.
Snapshot
The initiative to increase local agarbatti production in Assam would lift the Indian incense stick making industry.
In a major step towards achieving Aatmanirbhar Bharat goals, an
agarbatti (incense sticks) making unit, Keshari Bio Products, was inaugurated in Assam to increase local production through the Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme.
Setting up of these units in Assam assumes great significance in the wake of Narendra Modi governmentâs decision to restrict import of raw
agarbatti from China and Vietnam, and also a hike in import duty on round bamboo sticks for