ShopClues to mentor 12 young women entrepreneurs under Niti Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship platform

2024-04-19 04:20:10 Business

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New Delhi, March 12, 2018: With a vision to empower women and encourage a competitive entrepreneurial ecosystem in India, ShopClues has joined hands with Niti Aayog?s ?Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP)? which was launched on the occasion of International Women?s Day.

NITI Aayog has launched the WEP which will act as a point of dissemination of information about existing government schemes, programmes and various other initiatives in the private sector to promote women entrepreneurship.

The platform aspires to substantially increase the number of women entrepreneurs who will create and empower a dynamic new India. WEP will provide opportunities to women to realize their entrepreneurial aspirations.

For this programme, Radhika Ghai, Co-Founder of ShopClues and an inspiration to many young entrepreneurs along with her team, will be seen mentoring and impart skilling to 12 young women entrepreneurs for over a course of 1 year.

Speaking on the association, Radhika Ghai, Co-Founder and CBO, ShopClues, said, ?I am happy to be associated with Niti Aayog and honoured to collaborate with them for the Women Entrepreneurs Programme. I now see it as my responsibility to foster young talent and set a good example of reaching for excellence and skills in entrepreneurship. At ShopClues, we are trying to create a culture where we invest in and encourage the next generation to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set where we embrace each of our tasks and roles with honesty, focus and passion.?

Radhika has been an accomplished speaker and is a recipient of the Ministry of Women & Child Development's 'First Ladies' Award for being the first lady in E-commerce to lead a Unicorn company.

?Lastly, I would like to thank the Government of India for supporting our ideas and encouraging us to do better every-day.? She further added.

About ShopClues:

Gurugram-based ShopClues, India?s first and largest online marketplace, is the Indian subsidiary of Clues Network Inc., a US Corporation. Founded in 2011, ShopClues is the preferred e-commerce destination for buyers and sellers in Tier II, III, IV and beyond regions of India. The e-commerce platform offers 28 million listed products, over 6,00,000 merchants and records more than 100 million monthly visits. It has taken local brands to a national level servicing more than 31,500 pin codes across India.

ShopClues was deemed a Unicorn in 2016 with the E Series Funding by Sovereign Wealth Fund GIC.