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The Hindu
15-07-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
Workshop for MEPMA officials to identify SHG businesses held at Tadepalli
MEPMA (Mission for Elimination of Poverty in Municipal Areas) on Tuesday conducted a workshop on 'Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship Acceleration Programme' (LEAP), a key initiative under MEPMA to achieve the goals set by the State government with regard to One Family-One Entrepreneur (OFOE) programme. According to a press note from the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department (MA&UD), LEAP is aimed at strengthening urban business ecosystems by identifying, guiding, and scaling SHG-led enterprises. In alignment with the State government's OFOE programme, the LEAP project is being implemented in collaboration with the India SME Forum. In this context, the workshop held at Tadepalli provided direction to MEPMA staff on how to enable entrepreneurship within families. MA&UD principal secretary S. Suresh Kumar and MEPMA mission director N. Tej Bharat were present on the occasion. The workshop focused on capacity building for city mission managers, identifying SHG businesses, exploring market access strategies and digital formalisation techniques, and also training staff to become mentors and counsellors. The officials also discussed subjects, including cluster development, promotion of women SHG clusters, and digital tools like dashboards, feedback systems, and performance tracking. MEPMA is aiming to nurture 30,000 entrepreneurs during 2025–26, and staff were briefed on the roadmap to achieve the goal. According to a press note, an action plan is already under way for implementation of the project. Phase-1 audit has been completed in Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, and Tirupati municipal corporations. Data of nearly 4,00,000 SHG members was analysed by India SME Forum and MEPMA staff. Phase-2 audit also has begun recently across 14 municipal corporations.
Hans India
26-04-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Women exhorted to turn entrepreneurs
Vijayawada: NTR district Collector Dr G Lakshmisha called for advancing the government slogan 'One Family-One Entrepreneur' as a grand movement in order to propel the State's industrial sector toward progress, promote large-scale investments, entrepreneurship, employment, and innovation. He urged for achieving industrial progress under this slogan. Dr Lakshmisha inaugurated a workshop on 'One Family-One Entrepreneur' at farmers' training centre here on Friday. He inspected product stalls set up by various organisations successfully led by women. As part of the programme, Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh (ALEAP) representatives explained the pivotal role it plays in transforming small ideas into successful business projects. Eight entrepreneurs, who are already successfully running industries, shared their operations and expressed readiness to guide women aspiring to become entrepreneurs in the future. These entrepreneurs - Punarbhava Shaktivel (Punarbhava Sustainable Products), Ch Jithendriya (Akruti Biogreen), Keerthana (9 Nutz), Madhuri (Sri Shyamalamba Food Products), Srikanth (Srikanth Industries Pvt Ltd), Naveen (Twils), D Vijayadurga (Sri Sahasra Industries), and Parvathi (Man Urban Bowl) - provided valuable suggestions to women from self-help groups (SHGs). They emphasised that with strong determination and aspiration, one can succeed and provide employment to others, even without initial capital. Dr Lakshmisha, later addressing the media, explained the workshop's objectives. He stated that the government has unveiled the ambitious Swarnandhra @ 2047 vision document to achieve sustainable development across all sectors and create a poverty-free state. Awareness programmes are being conducted for approximately 4.5 lakh SHG women with the government's goal being to see every woman become an entrepreneur. The Collector stated that NTR district's per capita income in 2024-25 is Rs 2.52 lakh with a target of reaching Rs 55 lakh by 2047. He urged aspiring entrepreneurs to take inspiration from women entrepreneurs who, with an investment of Rs 2 lakh, have achieved turnovers worth crores.
