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Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About Chetna Sinha
- Chetna Gala Sinha is an Indian social activist working to empower women in drought-prone areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills and providing them access to land and other means of production.
- Chetna Sinha and six other women chaired the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, on 23–26 January 2018.
- Chetna Gala Sinha has been awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar, India’s highest civilian award for women who work in the area of women’s empowerment.
- In 1997, she set up the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank - India’s first bank for and by rural women.
- Today, the Mann Deshi Bank has 100,000 account holders, has loaned over $50 million and regularly creates new financial products to support the needs of female micro-entrepreneurs.
- Mann Deshi foundation runs Business Schools, a Community Radio and a Chambers of Commerce for rural women micro entrepreneurs.
- To date, it has supported nearly half a million women.
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