NITI Aayog launches fourth edition of Women Transforming India Awards

NITI Aayog launched the fourth edition of Women Transforming India Awards (WTI) with the collaboration of the United Nations and WhatsApp. They announced to provide a support amount of US $100,000 to the winners.

New Delhi:In collaboration with the United Nations and WhatsApp, the government think tank NITI Aayog launched the fourth edition of Women Transforming India Awards, 2019 on Friday under its Women Entrepreneurship Platform.

WhatsApp has collaborated with WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) for WTI (Women Transforming India) Awards of 2019 by providing a support equivalent to the US $100,000 to the winners. This year's theme is "Women and Entrepreneurship".

While addressing the press conference, NITI Aayog's CEO Amitabh Kant said, " For the past three years, we have been celebrating the power of women and recognising their efforts in championing the cause of their societies. The next wave of disruption in India's startup ecosystem would be led by women-led enterprises."

UN coordinator in India, Renata Lok Dessallien, said that the initiative has brought six thousand stories together. "I believe that if there is any group which can decisively accelerate India, and the world's, the achievement of the Sustainable development goals, it is India's women. They are not recipients of the development. They are stakeholders," she added.