Udyam portal: Women MSMEs only 16% of total registered units so far; micro enterprises dominate

In accordance with MSME Ministry’s 2020-21 annual report, out of 6.33 crore MSMEs, 6.08 crore had been proprietary considerations, of which solely 20.37 per cent had been ladies owned. (Picture: Pixabay)

Ease of Doing Enterprise for MSMEs: Udyam registration portal, which was launched in July final 12 months to exchange the Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM) portal, has crossed the 60-lakh-registration mark. As of December 12, 2021, 60.38 lakh MSMEs (new and present) had registered themselves on the Modi authorities’s new portal, evaluation of presidency information confirmed. Nonetheless, the share of women-owned MSMEs registered on the portal was solely 16.6 per cent, of which 97 per cent had been micro items.

10.04 lakh Udyam registered enterprises had been women-owned as of November 31, 2021, because the launch of the portal, together with 9.73 lakh micro items. Small (29,023) and medium enterprises (1,593) led by ladies represented 2.88 per cent and 0.15 per cent share respectively. The info was shared by MSME Minister Narayan Rane in Lok Sabha in a written reply to a query on Thursday. Data on the share of women-owned new enterprises registering on the Udyam portal and present UAM enterprises switching to the brand new portal wasn’t shared.

Importantly, the full ladies MSME registrations of 10.04 lakh on the Udyam portal, which got here within the 17-month interval (July 2020-November 2021), is already nearing the 11.78-lakh-women-MSME-registration mark on the UAM portal that took 27 months (FY19-June FY21).

In accordance with MSME Ministry’s 2020-21 annual report, out of 6.33 crore MSMEs, 6.08 crore had been proprietary considerations, of which 79.63 per cent had been owned by males whereas women-owned items had been solely 20.37 per cent at the same time as that had elevated from 13.72 per cent previously 10 years. However, the present 10.04 lakh ladies items represented only one.65 per cent of the general proprietary MSME items in India.

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Amongst many causes for the low rely of girls MSMEs in India, based on consultants Monetary Categorical On-line had earlier spoken with, are arguably unconscious biases, challenges in accessing finance and constructing personal community, lack of security in public areas, generally not getting sufficient assist from household, lack of child-care choices, typically insecurity in their very own expertise in enterprise, and so on.

“Girls put their substantial time taking care of household and within the remaining time pursue their ardour. To broaden that concept into a correct enterprise, they want extra time and bodily area to first check their mannequin. They will’t make investments closely instantly into establishing an workplace or shopping for land for a manufacturing facility whereas managing the household. There isn’t a gender parity right here as males can dedicate extra time to work or enterprise and make investments extra. That’s an unsaid fact,” mentioned Shashi Singh, Chairperson at ladies entrepreneurs’ community — Consortium of Girls Entrepreneurs of India had informed Monetary Categorical On-line.