Udyogini Business School opened in January 2007 in a drought-prone village in Maharashtra State in India. It is the country’s first and only business school for unlettered rural women—no educational degree of any kind is required for admittance. According to the Asia Sentinel, an English-language newspaper reporting on Asia, the institution is designed to allow greater number of poor women to participate in microcredit by coaching them in entrepreneurship, accountancy, bank finance, marketing skills, and confidence-building. It also offers a wide variety of courses on how to run enterprises in areas such as purse and bag making, photography, screen-printing and mobile telephony kiosks.
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