Caption: AIMS Director Ranganath Iyer addressing women entrepreneurs at the MCCI office on Devaraj Urs Road here today as WISE Secretary Rukmini Chandran, MCCI President Sudhakar Shetty, WISE President Gayatri Keshav and Vice-President Vasanthakumari look on. [Pic. by Pragathi Gopalakrishna]

Mysore, Jan. 15

Women in Small Enterprises (WISE), the women’s wing of Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI), had organised a half-day workshop for women entrepreneurs at MCCI office on Devaraj Urs Road here today.

The workshop was to create an awareness among the women entrepreneurs regarding the ‘10,000 Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme’ to be organised jointly by Iiternationally acclaimed investment bank Goldman Sachs and Business School and the Indian School of Business in association with Acharya Institute of Management and Sciences (AIMS) to be held in Bangalore.

Briefing the gathering of over 50 women entrepreneurs, AIMS Director and Programme Convener Ranganath Iyer said: “The training programme to commence from Feb. 25 will feature 19 days of lectures and interaction with business experts and three months of monitoring by professionals in batches of six days each. The programme will train the women to refine their business modules to face the challenges and complexity in business. To improve communication skills in English, the programme also includes coaching in the language.”

Inaugurating the workshop, MCCI President Sudhakar Shetty pointed out that women entrepreneurs get subsidy up to Rs. 1 crore. He expressed satisfaction that the regional Global Investors Meet held recently in city had evoked good response from women entrepreneurs.

WISE President Gayatri Keshav, Vice-President Vasanthakumari and Secretary Rukmini Chandran were present.

Source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / Home> General News / January 15th, 2013