This Maharashtra flagship scheme for small businesses is likely to generate 10 lakh jobs

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Tamil Nadu women emerge 2nd after UP in establishing more units

by starsforum | May 13, 2019 | NEWS YOU CAN USE

CHENNAI: When it comes to availing benefits under the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) – a credit-linked subsidy scheme implemented since 2008 – 09, Tamil Nadu women appear to come close behind their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh in...

How this Hyderabad social entrepreneur is using big data to change farmers’ lives

by starsforum | Apr 17, 2019 | NEWS YOU CAN USE

HYDERABAD: At a time of widespread agricultural distress caused by successive droughts, unremunerative farming and debt-trapped rural economies, a young man with his mobile app is showing how change can be brought in the life of farmers at the grassroot level. Today,...

How machine learning is helping in credit profiling in new age lending platforms

by starsforum | Apr 17, 2019 | NEWS YOU CAN USE

Machine learning algorithms gather knowledge at an oversize scale, consolidate this knowledge and establish patterns during this knowledge from its own disposition history. Based on these patterns it judges whether a borrower is credit worthy or not and regulate the...

GAME, Facebook team up to help Indian entrepreneurs scale up

by starsforum | Apr 17, 2019 | NEWS YOU CAN USE

  Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Facebook Tuesday said they have collaborated to help small entrepreneurs in India build their businesses using digital platforms to aggregate demand, market products and acquire customers. The objective of...

Investing in rural women’s leadership

by starsforum | Jul 10, 2018 | NEWS YOU CAN USE, Uncategorized

Rural women are the human face of poverty and development. They figure as a statistic—women comprise 70% of all agricultural workforce and the number seems to be growing. By – Prema Gopalan, the author is founder & executive director, Swayam Shikshan Prayog,...