WTC Jaipur Hosts Workshop on Women Empowerment

JAIPUR, INDIA - "Developing skills of women and commercializing them will lead to true economic empowerment of women. Considering the upcoming trades require in the market, skill development needs to be implemented with greater impetus especially among the women, creating an individual identity for them and to trigger a change in the way women’s role in socio- economic sphere is perceived by the society” said Ms. Shipra Bhutani, Director, Quantum Career Academy, at the Workshop on Enhancing Women’s Economic Empowerment organized by World Trade Centre Jaipur on 6th December 2016.

“Strong forums for skill development must be created. 'Invest in women' should be the new mantra of under developed and developing societies. However, Mentors play a very important role in the whole new realm of skilling India. Willingness to share skills, knowledge and expertise will reduce the gender gap which is currently very big” stressed Ms. Archana Surana, Founder and Director, Arch Academy of Design, Jaipur, while talking about the role of Mentor in building the leaders of tomorrow.

Highlighting the concept of ‘securing self through saving and managing funds,’ among the home makers and budding women entrepreneurs, Ms. Nivedita Sarda, Partner Vedanta Law Chambers further urged all the women present in the workshop to set out a goal in building personal and business finance, she further explained the impact of demonetization in the current scenario and shared the available investment opportunities, largely benefiting the women.

Legal Expert and Advocate, Ms. Shalini Sheoran, from Shalini Sheoran & Associates said, “apart from setting the financial goals, exercising right of choice, influencing decision making and knowing the appropriate legal and constitutional rights available for women in India will also lead to overall development required to succeed . Distributing your energy and resources wisely will lead to holistic empowerment of women, opined Ms. Sheoran.

The entire session was complimented with a beautiful and encouraging poem by the renowned author Ms. Sushma K K, wherein she stressed on the fact that women need to unite for striving a social change leading to creation of an ideal society.

Ms. Dolly Awati, Jt. Director – Corporate Communication and Trade Promotion, World Trade Centre Mumbai in her opening address, emphasized the need to engage more and more women in the business of International Trade and Commerce. She further added that the 6th Edition of Global Economic Summit organized by the World Trade Centre Mumbai on “Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Capacity Building” will provide impetus to women across the world to network and identify the available business opportunities. The summit will also impart skills required to engage in today’s digital and e-commerce platform. The forum will connect decision and policy makers from India and overseas apart from interaction with achievers and learning from their success stories. The entire Programme of this summit is designed to draw a bigger canvas for women to take lead from front in the coming years.

(In the pic: (L to R), Ms. Archana Surana, Founder and Director, Arch Academy of Design, Jaipur, Mr. Navneet Agarwal- Asst. Director, WTC Jaipur, Ms. Sushma K K , Author & Cook, Ms. Dolly Awati- Jt. Director, WTC Mumbai, Mr. Ashish Modi – Asst. Director, Trade Promotions, WTC Jaipur)

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