New Delhi [India], March 20 (ANI): NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is ready to host the fifth version of the Women Transforming India Awards (WTI) on Monday, knowledgeable the apex public coverage suppose tank of the Government of India on Sunday.
According to an announcement issued by the NITI Aayog in the present day, the WTI will felicitate 75 girls achievers to honour their contribution in the direction of a ‘Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat’, as India celebrates the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of Independence.
In a present of solidarity and alliance, an equally distinctive group of girls will confer the awards to the achievers–Kiran Bedi, former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, Lakshmi Puri, former Assistant Secretary-General of UN; Dr Tessy Thomas, Director-General of Aeronautical Systems, DRDO; Arundhati Bhattacharya, former Chairperson of State Bank of India; Debjani Ghosh, President of NASSCOM; Ila Arun, acclaimed singer; Salma Sultan, former news anchor at DD; Dr Sangeeta Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals; and Shivani Malik, Managing Director of Da Milano Leathers.
CEO of NITI Aayog Amitabh Kant and Senior Adviser Anna Roy; Shombi Sharp, UN Resident Coordinator in India and Kailash Kher, who has written, composed and lent his voice to the WEP anthem, will probably be current on the occasion.
Sports champions Shiny Wilson, Track and Field Athlete; Karnam Malleswari, first Indian lady to win a medal in weightlifting within the 2000 Olympics; Lovlina Borgohain, Tokyo Olympic medallist in boxing; Mansi Joshi, World No. 1 para-badminton singles’ participant in SL3; Pranati Naik, Tokyo 2020 Olympian gymnast and 2019 Asian Championship medallist; and Simranjit Kaur, Tokyo 2020 Olympian and 2018 AIBA World Championship medallist; and ladies defence officers will mark their presence as properly.
NITI Ayog accepted purposes for the WTI Awards’ 21 from October 1, 2021, to February 21, 2022, underneath the classes of Public and Community Service; Manufacturing Sector; Non-manufacturing Sector; Financial Products enabling Economic Growth; Climate Action; Promote Art, Culture and Handicrafts; Digital Innovation.
All 75 awardees chosen on the premise of nominations obtained on WEP and thru shortlisting by a search-and-select committee characterize completely different areas and sectors.
Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) goals to construct a vibrant ecosystem for women-led enterprises, the platform works to strengthen trade linkages and improve consciousness of current programmes and companies. More than 900 girls entrepreneurs have been benefitted by means of 77 programmes and occasions hosted on the platform, up to now.
The platform performed an lively position throughout Covid-19 by conducting webinars to offer enterprise assist to girls entrepreneurs and thru its Masking It Up marketing campaign, the adversely impacted women-led small companies in India had been supported. (ANI)