Jammu, May 1 -- In Jammu, women are leading the new startup surge and the numbers are hard to ignore
Sonia Kashyap, IIMC Jammu
Five years ago, the region had 69 registered startups. Today, that figure stands at over 1,300. That's a nearly 1,793% jump. Behind much of this growth is a quieter story: women housewives, college graduates, and Gen Z entrepreneurs barely out of their teens are building businesses out of kitchens, Instagram pages, and rented market stalls across the Jammu division.
It is, in many ways, a revolution hiding in plain sight.
The broader economic shift is visible in the numbers. MSME registrations in the region have climbed from roughly 13,000 to over 44,000. Of those, more than 5,500 enterprises are women-owned. An...