Britannia Will Increase Participation Of Women In Its Workforce

Britannia will recruit more and more women, know what is the plan for 2024.

FMCG major Britannia Industries Limited has said that it aims to achieve a diversity ratio of 50 percent by 2024 by increasing the participation of women in its factory workforce.

BIL’s Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Amit Doshi said that currently, 38 percent of the company’s factory workers are women.

60 percent of women in the workforce in the Guwahati factory.

We aim to achieve a diversity ratio of 50 percent by 2024 in our factories from the current national average of 38 percent.

The proportion of women in the workforce at Britannia’s Guwahati factory is 60 percent and will be increased to 65 percent.

Proud to have a women workforce in areas dominated by men.

We are proud to have a female workforce in engineering, taping, and grinding as well as male-dominated fields such as packing, housekeeping, pantry, lab testing, canteen, and security.

To empower women the company has already started start-up challenges among women entrepreneurs.

Also tied up with Google to provide skill training.

So far the company has provided the capital of Rs 10 lakh each to 30 women entrepreneurs for start-ups in areas like e-commerce, digital services, ophthalmology care through mobile vans, and child education.

The company has also tied up with Google to provide skill training to women across the country, he added.

Affordable housing sales fall, more demand for houses above 75 lakhs.

The contribution of affordable segment housing sales up to Rs 45 lakh to total housing sales during 2021 declined to 43 percent from 48 percent in the previous year.

While the share of units above Rs 75 lakh increased from 25 percent. increased to 31 percent. This figure is according to real estate consultant PropTiger.

In a report titled Real Insight Residential – Annual Round-up 2021, PropTiger said housing sales across eight key housing markets grew by 13 percent to 2,05,936 units in 2021 from 1,82,639 units in the previous year.

As per the data, 43 percent of the total housing sales in India’s eight major housing markets were within the Rs 45 lakh price bracket.

The share of units in the Rs 45 lakh to Rs 75 lakh price bracket increased from 26 percent in the previous year to 27 percent in 2021, while the share of apartments in the Rs 75 lakh to Rs 1 crore range increased from 9 to 11.