This component shall aim to promote leadership development, entrepreneurship, and career counselling support exclusively amongst the minority women. Key objectives under this component are given below:

Leadership and Basic Entrepreneurship Development: To enrol minority women beneficiaries in ‘Leadership and Basicist them to take up roles as community leaders.  

•    These women shall be supported with a view to instil confidence among them and their neighbours from other communities living in the same village/locality or in the vicinity, by providing knowledge, tools, and techniques for interacting with government system, banks and other institutions or set up individual or group enterprises or support them in getting admission in skill training courses under the skill development schemes of MoMA or other Ministries.
•    Programme modules shall incorporate topics on personality development, women empowerment and gender sensitization, health, and hygiene linked to Swachh Bharat, financial inclusion, disaster management, life skills, legal rights, digital literacy, and advocacy, etc. These beneficiaries shall be further supported on entrepreneurship, as described below.

Entrepreneurship Development: To select 50 percent of the total beneficiaries enrolled in the Leadership and Basic Entrepreneurship Development programme, having potential and inclination to set up economic enterprises for self-employment and provide them with 120 hours of training on Entrepreneurship Development module.
Business Mentors/ Business Correspondents (Biz Sakhis/ Udyami Mitra): To select 10 percent of the women trained as entrepreneurs (those who have undergone the Entrepreneurship Development module) based on their leadership qualities and provide them a training of 240 hours to become Business Mentors / Business Correspondents (Biz Sakhis/ Udyami Mitras), who would be trained with a view to equip them to handhold potential entrepreneurs and set-up/ scale-up enterprises and develop and promote their own enterprises. Biz Sakhis are envisioned as mentors who would provide doorstep support to other women entrepreneurs to help them to set up their ventures and improve their livelihoods.

Career counselling support: To provide career counselling to all interested beneficiaries from those enrolled under this component and to ensure that at least 15 percent of them are either:

•    Assisted in applying for suitable education and skill training under any other scheme of this Ministry (through Traditional and Non-Traditional Skilling Components), or similar programs of other ministries, or

•    Assisted in finding suitable jobs for entering the labour/ employment market as per their qualifications.

Enterprise set-up support through credit and market linkages: To promote development of individual or group enterprises amongst 30 percent of the beneficiaries trained under the Entrepreneurship Development module to set-up enterprises/ self-employment ventures in line with the vision of ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’, by establishing linkages with financial institutions such as NMDFC, Banks, NBFCs.
Various program modules for this component shall be customised and developed in consultation with SSCs/ specialised bodies empanelled by MoMA and approved as per applicable norms.