Sumita Ghosh, Founder of Rangsutra

Sumita Ghosh is an Indian business visionary who began the Rangsutra, a social endeavor which looks to achieve financial turn of events and comprehensive development in country India by connecting with both the local area and the market group and won the Nari Shakti Puraskar grant from the President of India. Many craftsman’s co-own Rangsutra and through the organization they sell their products overcoming any barrier to worldwide clients like Ikea.

Rangsutra is possessed by more than 1,000 craftsmans, the majority of whom are ladies. Different proprietors are similar associations and individuals who are focused on guaranteeing practical jobs for provincial craftsmans in India. Rangsutra gives configuration, showcasing, specialized and hierarchical help expected to make creates. The association likewise partnered rustic businesses into feasible ventures so they may give ordinary home and town based work to provincial craftsmans.

Before setting up Rangsutra, Sumita lived and worked in various pieces of country India for a long time, for the most part in Western Rajasthan with the URMUL Trust, working with rustic networks for social change and monetary turn of events.

Sumita Ghosh has a Masters Degree in Economics from Mumbai University. She was a Fulbright researcher in the United States, where she finished a Masters Degree in Conflict Resolution. Sumita was additionally a beneficiary of the MacArthur Fellowship for Leadership and is among the primary clump of the CII – Aspen India Fellows.

She has nearly 20 years of involvement working with provincial networks in distant spaces of India to achieve social and monetary change. From shaping ladies’ wellbeing assemblages and self improvement gatherings focused on monetary confidence, to preparing town networks to run essential instruction programs for their youngsters, Sumita has worked broadly at the grassroots. Handiworks and handloom weaving being one of the center capabilities of provincial networks, she has worked at getting sorted out craftsmans into cooperatives and giving proficient help, to improve bargains in the commercial center.