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Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana generates 5.5 cr jobs, says SKOCH report

The Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY), which provides access to institutional finance to small business units, has helped in creating 5.5 crore jobs with industrialised states being major beneficiaries, a report said. Industrialised states like Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have been the…

FIEO pushing SMEs to hike India-Singapore trade to $25b by 2019-20

In line with the increasing bilateral trade between India and Singapore, Apex exports institution – Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) is gearing up to boost the participation of small and medium-scale manufacturers and retailers in the trade relation of the two nations. While speak…

#SheBoss: Tracing the start-up jounery of WomePreneurs in India

In the last couple of years India has seen a massive surge in the number of women starting their own businesses and contributing to the huge economic wave that the country is seeing. According to the National Sample Survey Organisation, 14% of business establishments in India are being run by wom…

SME board fund-raising up 7-fold in 6 years

Ahmedabad: Small and medium enterprises have clambered onto the IPO bandwagon with alacrity: fund-raising activity through junior bourses has gone up by about seven times in the past six years. For small entrepreneurs, raising funds through the SME IPO platform yields dual benefits of increased c…