Employment for Women in the North-Eastern Region

The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises promotes schemes/programmes that have special dispensation for women entrepreneurs in the North-Eastern Region leading to more employment generation for women of these region.

     The state wise information relating to North-Eastern Region in respect of number of enterprises , total employment, and employment of women as per the latest  Census of MSME (Fourth Census )  conducted with reference year 2006-07 wherein  data was collected till 2009 and result  published in 2011 is:-

S.No.	States (North - Eastern Region)	Number of enterprises	Employment
			Total	Women
1.	Assam	19864	210507	62527
2.	Arunachal Pradesh	417	5411	1320
3.	Meghalaya	3010	12700	2728
4.	Manipur	4492	19960	3948
5.	Mizoram	3715	26032	5231
6.	Nagaland	1332	16281	3371
7	Tripura	1343	23166	6779
8.	Sikkim	122	1159	398
	TOTAL	34295	315216	86302

     The Ministry facilitates promotion of new enterprises through schemes relating to credit, infrastructure development, technology up-gradation, marketing and Entrepreneurship Skill Development Programmes in the country.