Hyderabad: Industry Minister D Sridhar Babu told parliament on Saturday that the government will establish a training academy for women entrepreneurs and that it is working to find solutions to ensure last-mile connections to products made by women’s self-help groups (SHGs).
The minister is answering questions about the incentives for female entrepreneurs in Congress Mlas Kasireddy Narayan Reddy and Laxmi Kantha Rao.
He also said that each of the 119 parliamentary constituencies will provide women with a mini industrial park. “In all constituencies, flat factories (multi-story industrial complexes) will be established for female SHGs.” Sridhar Babu assured members that the inquiry of recruiting Foxconn’s young women between the ages of 18 and 20, only unmarried women aged 18 and 20, would be no such restrictions.
