{"id":29954,"date":"2025-02-08T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T03:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29954"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:40:51","slug":"swavalambini-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/swavalambini-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Swavalambini Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Swavalambini Programme Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship launched the Swavalambini programme.<\/p>\n<h2>About Swavalambini Programme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched by the <strong>Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship<\/strong> (MSDE), in collaboration with <strong>NITI Aayog<\/strong> in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative is aimed at <strong>empowering female students<\/strong> in select <strong>Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)<\/strong> in the northeast by equipping them with the essential entrepreneurial mind-set, resources, and mentorship they need to succeed in their entrepreneurial journey.<\/li>\n<li>MSDE through <strong>Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship<\/strong> (IIE) in collation with NITI Aayog, a structured <strong>stage-wise entrepreneurial process<\/strong>\u2014from awareness to development, mentorship, and funding support, has been introduced.<\/li>\n<li>Those who successfully build their ventures will be recognized and awarded, ensuring that their success stories inspire others.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative aims to provide structured training through the <strong>Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP)<\/strong> which introduces 600 female students to entrepreneurship as a viable career option.<\/li>\n<li>For 300 selected students, the Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP) offers an intensive 40-hour training covering crucial business aspects such as training and skilling, access to finance, market linkages, compliance and legal support, business services, and networking opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>This will be followed by <strong>six months of mentorship<\/strong> and handholding support to help participants translate their ideas into sustainable prospects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Swavalambini Programme FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What does NITI Aayog stand for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> National Institution for Transforming India<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2: <\/strong>Where is Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship situated?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> Guwahati, Assam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3: <\/strong>What is entrepreneurship?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>It is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2100760\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>PIB<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swavalambini Programme was launched by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), in collaboration with NITI Aayog in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}