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Chetna Sinha
Indian social entrepreneur
Chetna Gala Sinha (born 1958) is an Indian social entrepreneur working to empower women in areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills, access to land and means of production.[1]
Sinha and six other women chaired the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2018. Sinha has been awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar, India's highest civilian award for women. India. She is a Member of the BRICS Women's Business Alliance and is also a member of the Gender Equality Advisory Council (2022) appointed during Germany's G7 Presidency.
In 1997, she set up the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank – India's first bank for and by rural women. Mann Deshi Bank had 100,000 account holders and had loaned over US$50 million to support female micro-entrepreneurs in 2018. Mann Deshi Foundation runs Business Schools, a Community Radio and a Chambers of Commerce for rural women micro entrep Chetna sinha biography of martin short.