STATE BUREAU dered Urging the women entre- preneurs to tap into oppor- tunities in the emerging technologies, aerospace, de- fence and several other new-age segments, Indus- tries and IT Minister KT Rama Rao said the govern- ment would consider giving 50-100 acres for setting up women-led enterprises. He asked them to look at areas that have the potential for value creation and large scale employment. The Minister also an- nounced a new initiative of the government — Udyamika — a new indus- trial wing that will offer a single-window system to address the grievances of the women entrepreneurs. It will offer end-to-end support for women entre- preneurs, have a committee to review and process the incentives and also create a corpus fund that will be used for increasing the ease of doing business for women entreprencurs, he said. Inaugurating the 50-acre FICCI-FLO Industrial Park at Sultanpur on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the first industrial park inthe country thatisled and fully owned by women en- treprencurs, Rama Rao said the world is looking up to India with a renewed focus and urged the women entre- preneurs to come up with projects that have scale fora “Telamgana:= Today FICCI-FLO Industrial Park launched INAUGURATION OF IT Minister KT Rama Rao and others at the launch of FICCL-FLO Industrial Park at Sultanpur lasting impact. He urged the women to look at untapped areas and not just stick to the conventional small trades that are branded as a good fit for women entre- Preneurs. “Hyderabad supplied one-third of the vaccines used globally. We are also a key contributor in the pharma segment. There cannot be any reason for not thinking big or venturing into new areas. You should think of changing the world,” he said. The 50-acre FICCI-FLO Industrial Park has been al- lotted to 25 entrepreneurs and about five of them have begun operations. Rama Rao asked the remaining mem- bers to take up their respec- tive projects without further delay as this would lead to the creation of new jobs. Telangana has been sup- porting and advising the women entrepreneurs and will continue to do so, he said adding that ten per cent of each industrial park is earmarked for women-led enterprises. He urged the women en- trepreneurs to avail the services of We-Hub, India’s first and only State-led incu- bator to promote and foster women’s entrepreneurship by incubation, access to gov- ernment and creating a global collaborative net- work for women-led enter- prises to thrive, with respect to validation of their busi- ness ideas. We Hub so far worked more than 5,000 entre- preneurs and incubated about 150 startups and helped raise more than Rs 65 crore in funding, he said. Telangana has progressed on multiple fronts since the State’s formation in 2014. ‘There were a lot of appre- hensions about the State’s ability to attract new invest- ments and preserve the cul- tural fabric. “Telangana is a forward- looking State. Any entrepre- neur can start operations on day one. All industrial ap- provals are through single window TS-iPASS, which has so far given over 18,000 clearances with the poten- tial to create employment for 16 lakh people,” he said. FLO, Hyderabad chai person Uma Chigurupati said industrial the park will have 25 women-owned manufacturing _ industries and it will see an investment of Rs 250 crore and generate employment for about 2,000 people.