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Ms. V.L. Indira Dutt, Joint Managing Director of KCP Limited, has been elected recently as Chairperson to the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) Chamber Women Entrepreneurs Council (SCWEC) for a two-year term. She took charge at a conference held in Mumbai, from Nasreen Awal Mintoo of Bangladesh.
SCWEC, a sub-group of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was set up in 2001 in Colombo. It aims to promote women entrepreneurs in South Asia.
SCWEC, a sub-group of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was set up in 2001 in Colombo. It aims to promote women entrepreneurs in South Asia.
SCWEC focuses on intra-regional development of women entrepreneurship for economic development, exchange of information on entrepreneurial skills and building trade links among women of the SAARC region.
Ms. Dutt said SCWEC was now working to remove barriers to easy flow of goods, services and technology. Ms. Dutt plans a SAARC Chamber Crafts Village project in Hyderabad and Chennai, similar to one in Nepal.
The crafts village will help women showcase their products, and participate in capacity building and training programmes. Ms. Dutt, former president of the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), was nominated by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) to the SAARC sub-group.
5 women representing five nations are the members of the council. Chairperson has to visit five nations as part of their duty. Mrs. Mintoo established the crafts village before she handover charge to Ms. V.L.Dutt..
During her term, she will help facilitate training programmes, give women inputs to start their own businesses, hold exhibitions, interlink with SAARC countries, provide them with databases and encourage women entrepreneurs to succeed. "We would like to tie up with the Tourism Department and help women export their products to other countries," she said. For Ms. Dutt, the transition from being a private person to a dynamic businesswoman came when "I held the post of President of the FLO in 1993." Her husband V.L. Dutt has been a great source of inspiration, she says; her daughter Kavitha Dutt Chitturi is an executive director in KCP.
Ms. Dutt is also the president of the World Telugu Federation for the second term and is working on a museum, a five-crore project ‘Telugu Sanskritika Niketanam’ in Visakhapatnam.
The Federation also trains people in Chennai to speak Telugu. She manages to beat stress through exercise, yoga and relaxing in the evening with her grand daughter.  
`Quest for the best' is her message to women entrepreneurs. They should not get discouraged, she says. "You should have the will power to achieve what is best in life. Your inner self comes out once the courage is built."
Despite her busy schedule Ms. Dutt actively participating in charitable services for the welfare of destitute people of our motherland. TeluguOne.com wishes her all the success and conveys best regards on behalf of our readers across the world.
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