Women MSMEs Entrepreneurs in India

Women entrepreneurs registers under UAM and UR portal

 The number of women entrepreneurs registered under Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM) and Udyam Registration (UR) portal of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, year-wise, during the period 01/04/2019 to 02/02/2022 is given in Annexure. 

Udyam Sakhi portal (http://udyamsakhi.msme.gov.in/ ) was launched in March 2018 to provide information regarding financial schemes, policies and programmes of the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises to existing/prospective women entrepreneurs in the MSME sector. The portal helps women to start, build and grow their businesses. A total of 3152 women have registered on the portal so far.

Through an amendment to the Public Procurement Policy, the Government has mandated that all Central Ministries/ Departments and Public Sector Undertakings should procure at least 3% of their annual procurement from women owned micro and small enterprises.   

The Ministry also  implements several other schemes for promotion and development of MSMEs, including women owned MSMEs, namely, Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster Development Programme (MSE-CDP).

Tool Rooms & Technology Centres, Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries (SFURTI), Procurement and marketing Support Scheme, Entrepreneurship and Skill  Development Programme (ESDP), Credit Linked Capital Subsidy and Technology Upgradation Scheme (CLCS-TUS)  etc.

MSMEs owned by women, registered under UAM from 01/04/2019 to 31/03/2020
Micro	Small	Medium	Total
498635	50738	1366	550739
MSMEs owned by women registered under UAM from 01/04/2020 to 30/06/2020
Micro	Small	Medium	Total
152512	28237	1073	181822
MSMEs owned by women under Udyam Registration from 01/07/2020 to 31/03/2021
Micro	Small	Medium	Total
473333	16663	1073	491069
MSMEs owned by women under Udyam Registration from 01/04/2021 to 02/02/2022
Micro	Small	Medium	Total
692034	15989	633	708656