While women entrepreneurship is a bigger part of social transformation in Jammu & Kashmir, it’s future is not as bright as it should have been in both Kashmir Valley and Jammu division. While it is a fact that women in both Kashmir valley and Jammu division are least interested in industrial entrepreneurship but this is also an irrefutable fact that the Government also has not shown too much og interest in motivating women towards industrial entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir. Unless and until the Government does not launch an awareness campaign for generating interest in entrepreneurship among women in Jammu & Kashmir, the bigger dreams of women entrepreneurship can’t be achieved in either Kashmir Valley or Jammu division. Knowing that women hunt for Government jobs but not for investment in lucrative business operations to further the bigger causes of industrial development in Jammu & Kashmir the Government could have taken slew of measures for promotion of women entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir. While the common Kashmiri women from middleclass and the lower strata’s have always been a part of a stressful economic scenario, no bigger initiative has been taken for development of industrial entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir. Though it is an irrefutable fact that women in some parts of Kashmir valley are engaged with the historic cottage industry of spinning (Pashmina and other famous yarns) but the vocation does not attract more and more women year after year in any part of Kashmir Valley. Other trades that women have been historically involved in are embroidering, carpet weaving, and vegetable vending. While the interest among women in embroidering, carpet weaving, and vegetable vending is reducing now at a faster rate across Kashmir, no fresh initiatives have been put in place to generate interest among rural women in such conventional trades in Srinagar the summer capital and other parts of Kashmir valley.
financial constraints are forcing hapless women to keep away from even conventional trades like embroidering, carpet weaving, and vegetable vending. Nothing new in it that the issues concerning women entrepreneurs are debated and discussed in Jammu & Kashmir, but the issues coming in the way of women entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir are yet to be addressed by J&K Government’s Industries and Commerce Department. Consequently the emergence of women entrepreneurship in Kashmir is very much elusive in Kashmir.
An increasing attention of the Government on promotion of both conventional and non conventional trades would have attracted more and more women in such trades in Jammu & Kashmir and consequently such an intervention of the Government in such trades would have increased the scope for the expansion of industrial entrepreneurship in Kashmir Valley. What matters the most is the availability of adequate financial support for promotion of such trades in valley and irrefutable fact is that financial constraints are forcing hapless women to keep away from even conventional trades like embroidering, carpet weaving, and vegetable vending. Nothing new in it that the issues concerning women entrepreneurs are debated and discussed in Jammu & Kashmir, but the issues coming in the way of women entrepreneurship in Jammu & Kashmir are yet to be addressed by J&K Government’s Industries and Commerce Department. Consequently the emergence of women entrepreneurship in Kashmir is very much elusive in Kashmir.
