On the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day 2022, the Union Minister for MSME has launched “SAMARTH”.<\/span><\/p>\n Launched by<\/b>: Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises<\/span><\/p>\n Purpose:<\/b> It is a Special Entrepreneurship Promotion Drive for Women to provide them with an opportunity to be self-reliant and independent by undertaking self-employment opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n Key features of the scheme<\/b>: <\/span>Under the initiative, the following benefits will be available to aspiring and existing women entrepreneurs:<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 20% of Seats in free Skill Development Programs organized under skill development schemes of the Ministry will be allocated for Women.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 20% of MSME Business Delegations sent to domestic & international exhibitions under the schemes for Marketing Assistance implemented by the Ministry will be dedicated to women-owned MSMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 20% Discount on annual processing fee on National Small Industries Corporation\u2019s (NSIC) Commercial Schemes such as Single Point Registration Scheme, Raw Material Assistance and Bill Discounting, Tender Marketing among others.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Special Drive for registration of women-owned MSMEs under Udyam Registration.<\/span><\/p>\n Significance of the Scheme:<\/b> Through this initiative, the Government is planning to train<\/span> more than, 7500 women candidates from rural and sub-urban areas in FY 2022-23. Besides, women will also be getting marketing opportunities to showcase their products in domestic and international exhibitions.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: This post is based on the article \u201c<\/b>Union Minister launches Special Entrepreneurship Promotion Drive for Women \u2013 \u201cSAMARTH\u201d on the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day 2022<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in PIB <\/b>on 9th Mar 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? On the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day 2022, the Union Minister for MSME has launched “SAMARTH”. What is SAMARTH? Launched by: Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises Purpose: It is a Special Entrepreneurship Promotion Drive for Women to provide them with an opportunity to be self-reliant and independent by undertaking… Continue reading Union Minister launches Special Entrepreneurship Promotion Drive for Women \u2013 \u201cSAMARTH\u201d on the occasion of International Women\u2019s Day 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-173045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704935811},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is SAMARTH?<\/b><\/h5>\n