NewzVille Desk
Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), in collaboration with Kerala State Rural Livelihood Mission, organized a two-day National Workshop on Rural Enterprise Incubators under DAY-National Rural Livelihood Mission on Wednesday in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Shailesh Kumar Singh, Secretary, MoRD, in his virtual inaugural address, highlighted the incubator program’s role in advancing women-led rural enterprises, noting that DAY-NRLM has mobilized over 10 crore women into 90 lakh SHGs, with many becoming first-generation entrepreneurs.
He highlighted the success of pilots in Assam, Bihar, West Bengal, and Karnataka, and shared that Kerala, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and several other States are scaling up with leading academic partners.
Addressing the gathering, M.B. Rajesh, Minister for Local Self-Government, Kerala, underlined Kerala’s commitment to promoting women-led entrepreneurship through Kudumbashree and expressed confidence that the workshop would serve as a platform for collaboration and innovation to strengthen rural enterprise ecosystems.
