Six Women led start ups win the Shri Shakti Challenge
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New Delhi, Nov 17 : Six start ups led by women have won the COVID-19 Shri Shakti Challenge organized by MyGov in collaboration with UN Women. A total of 1 thousand 265 entries were recorded from across the nation for the challenge.
The GOI portal MyGov had launched the COVID-19 Shri Shakti Challenge in April this year in collaboration with UN Women with an objective to enhance the participation of women and involve women led startups to come up with innovative solutions that can help to fight COVID-19 effectively. The challenge also received an overwhelming response with a total of 1 thousand 265 entries, from across the nation.
After thorough screening of the enterprises, only 25 startups among the registered were shortlisted for presentations to the Jury. As per the process, all the 25 selected startups presented their solutions to the Jury who evaluated the solutions proposed by the startups. The parameters to shortlist the finalists among the 25 startups included innovation, usability, relevance and impact of their idea on the society.
Among these 25 start ups, 11 finalists were chosen for the next stage who were all provided a prize money of 75 thousand rupees each to further develop their ideas. The Jury selected top 3 entries as winners, and in view of the high quality of solutions presented, decided to recognize 3 additional entries as ‘Promising Solutions’.
In addition to the earlier announced reward of Rs. 5 lakh for the top 3 winners, UN Women also rewarded Rs. 2 lakh each to the 3 startups chosen for their promising solutions.
