5th Edition of Women Transforming India Awards by NITI Aayog

• NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) will organize it.
• The WTI Awards will be conferred on 75 women achievers to celebrate their contribution towards a ‘Sashakt Aur Samarth Bharat’.

WTI Awards

• NITI Aayog’s annual initiative to highlight the commendable and ground-breaking endeavors of India’s women leaders and change-makers.
• The award to be given in 7 categories:

1. Public and Community Service
2. Manufacturing Sector
3. Non-manufacturing Sector
4. Financial Products enabling Economic Growth
5. Climate Action
6. Promote Art, Culture and Handicrafts
7. Digital Innovation

• 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.

Women Entrepreneurship Platform

• It is an aggregator portal that aims to catalyze the entrepreneurial ecosystem for women and address information asymmetry.
• To build a vibrant ecosystem for women-led enterprises, the platform works to strengthen industry linkages and increase awareness of existing programmes and services.
• Till date, more than 900 women entrepreneurs have been benefited through 77 programmes and events hosted on the platform.
• The platform played an active role during Covid-19 by conducting webinars to provide business support to women entrepreneurs and through its Masking It Up campaign.