Inspiration For Female Entrepreneurs, Sumita Ghosh

Winner of Nari Shakti Puraskar, Sumita Ghosh is an Indian entrepreneur and an incredibly strong woman. She was brought into the world in Kolkata and she did her bachelor’s degree from Mumbai and master’s from United States Of America. She along with her husband worked in improving health education in villages of Rajasthan.

She invested continuous effort and time in uplifting the society and economy of rural areas. In an unfortunate accident her husband was kidnapped by the United Liberation Front Of Assam and he never returned.

In 2007 she decided to establish a start up for promoting and uplifting the art of rural artisans along with their lifestyle,but she did not have any source of capital to invest in this idea and even banks refused to give her loan because of not having enough collateral so she came up with an idea and she asked local artisans to invest their money and in return they will get a share of the start up and currently her start up is booming fulfilling its purpose and is known to many of us by the name of Rangsutra.

In 2020 Ikea dispatched its Botanisk range made by their planners in a joint effort with social business people in Thailand, Romania, Jordan and India. Rangsutra, which Ghosh actually leads, was one of their India providers along with Industree, and Ramesh Flowers. Rangsutra is providing pad covers produced using supportable materials finding a place with the organic topic. They and Ikea are making work for hand loom weavers and other provincial craftsm.