Udyam portal: Women MSMEs only 16% of total registered units so far

Last Updated13/12/2021

Udyam registration portal, which was launched in July 2020 to replace the Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM) portal, has crossed the 60-lakh-registration mark.
As of December 12, 2021, 60.38 lakh MSMEs (new and existing) had registered themselves on the new portal, analysis of government data showed.
However, the share of women-owned MSMEs registered on the portal was only 16.6 per cent, of which 97 per cent were micro units.

It is a zero-cost MSME registration website launched by the Central government last year.
The Udyam portal helps the government to aggregate and collect information on the number of MSMEs in the country.
The portal also provides data of the production size of the MSMEs, geographical details, investment and turnover details.
It has replaced the Udyog Aadhar Memorandum (UAM).
The entrepreneurs require only the Aadhaar number for their registration and all the MSMEs will be given a certificate with a permanent registration number.
A QR code will be present on the certificate which can access details about the enterprise from the portal.

10.04 lakh Udyam registered enterprises were women-owned as of November 31, 2021, since the launch of the portal, including 9.73 lakh micro units.
Small (29,023) and medium enterprises (1,593) led by women represented 2.88 per cent and 0.15 per cent share respectively.
The data was shared by MSME Minister Narayan Rane in Lok Sabha in a written reply to a question on Thursday. Information on the share of women-owned new enterprises registering on the Udyam portal and existing UAM enterprises switching to the new portal wasn’t shared.
Importantly, the total women MSME registrations of 10.04 lakh on the Udyam portal, which came in the 17-month period (July 2020-November 2021), is already nearing the 11.78-lakh-women-MSME-registration mark on the UAM portal that took 27 months (FY19-June FY21).