Employment Opportunities for Women in Small Scale Industries
The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises facilitates promotion of new enterprises through implementation of various schemes/programmes relating to credit, infrastructure development, technology up-gradation, marketing and Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programmes in the country including North- Eastern Region leading to more employment generation. Some schemes/programmes have special privilege for women entrepreneurs. Setting up of enterprises is a continuous process.
As per the Final Report of the Fourth All India Census of Registered MSMEs, conducted with reference year 2006-07 wherein data was collected till 2009 and result published in 2011, the state wise information relating to North- Eastern Region in respect of number of enterprises, total employment & employment of women is:
S.No. | States (North - Eastern Region) | Number of Enterprises | Employment | |
Total | Women | |||
1. | Assam | 19864 | 210507 | 62527 |
2. | Arunachal Pradesh | 417 | 5411 | 1320 |
3. | Meghalaya | 3010 | 12700 | 2728 |
4. | Manipur | 4492 | 19960 | 3948 |
5. | Mizoram | 3715 | 26032 | 5231 |
6. | Nagaland | 1332 | 16281 | 3371 |
7 | Tripura | 1343 | 23166 | 6779 |
8. | Sikkim | 122 | 1159 | 398 |
TOTAL | 34295 | 315216 | 86302 | |
