Women Transforming India Awards (WTI)

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Women Transforming India Awards (WTI)- Relevance for UPSC Exam

GS Paper 2: Governance, Administration and Challenges- Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes.

NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is organizing the fifth edition of the Women Transforming India Awards (WTI) on 21 March 2022.
This year, as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, the WTI Awards will be conferred on 75 women achievers to celebrate their contribution towards a ‘Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat’.

About: The Women Transforming India Awards is NITI Aayog’s annual initiative to highlight the commendable and ground-breaking endeavours of India’s women leaders and change-makers.
Categories: Applications for the WTI Awards ’21 were invited from 1 October 2021 to 21 February 2022, under one or more than one of the following seven categories:
- Public and Community Service
- Manufacturing Sector
- Non-manufacturing sector
- Financial Products enabling Economic Growth
- Climate Action
- Promote Art, Culture and Handicrafts
- Digital Innovation
Selection of Winners: The 75 awardees represent different regions and sectors and have been selected through an elaborate process spanning several months.
- The awardees have been selected on the basis of nominations received on WEP and through shortlisting by a search-and-select committee.

About: Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is an aggregator portal that aims to catalyse the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women and address information asymmetry.
Mandate: To build a vibrant ecosystem for women-led enterprises, the WEP works to strengthen industry linkages and increase awareness of existing programmes and services.
Performance: To date, more than 900 women entrepreneurs have been benefitted through 77 programmes and events hosted on the platform.
Role Played during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) played an active role during Covid-19-
- By conducting webinars to provide business support to women entrepreneurs and
- Through its Masking It Up campaign: women-led small businesses in India that were adversely impacted were supported.