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{{Short description|Indian social entrepreneur and activist}}
{{about||the American anesthesiologist and healthcare policy expert|Anita Gupta (physician)}}
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'''Anita Gupta''' is an Indian social entrepreneur, organic farmer and tribal activist. She has arranged training for more than 50,000 rural women.

==Life==
Gupta came from a poor family and she witnessed her grandfather beating a girl he had taken to bear his children. She later said that she thought that if the girl had an education then she would have been empowered to resist his abuse.<ref name=empower/>

She comes from [[Bhojpur district, India|Bhojpur]] in Bihar where she has arranged training for more than 50,000 rural women<ref>{{Cite web |title=President Kovind presented Nari Shakti Puraskar to Anita Gupta .. |url=https://twitter.com/rashtrapatibhvn/status/1501093852278853636 |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref> in handicrafts, crochet and jewellery.<ref name=timesofi/>

She and her brother created the organisation Bhojpur Mahila Kala Kendra when she was ten years old in 1993 and<ref name=empower/> Gupta later served as its president.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bhojpur Mahila Kala Kendra {{!}} NGO {{!}} DoAram |url=http://www.doaram.com/organization/bhojpur-mahila-kala-kendra |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=DoAram.com}}</ref> The organisation would encourage women to get involved telling them that if they earned money then they could send their children to school.<ref name=empower>{{Cite web |title=Childhood experiences often shape your destiny. Empowering other women is the outcome for her. |url=https://bookofachievers.com/articles/bihars-social-entrepreneur-saw-child-abuse-and-is-now-helping-other-women |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=BookOfAchievers |language=en-IN}}</ref> The organisation was transformed when it registered as a society so that it could receive money from the government. The organisation is located in [[Arrah]] and it says it has create employment for 10,000 women.<ref name=timesofi/> Her organisation gained the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and DC Handicrafts as partners.<ref name=empower/>

In 2017 [[NITI Aayog]], the public policy think tank, gave her a "Women Transforming India Award".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nari Shakti Puraskars honour Specially Abled Kathak Dancer, First Woman Snake Rescuer and Social Entrepreneur from Maharashtra |url=https://pib.gov.in/pib.gov.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1803842 |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=pib.gov.in}}</ref>

On 8 March 2022, she was invited to the Presidential Palace ([[Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi|Rashtrapati Bhawan]]) in New Delhi to receive the highest award for women in India, the [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]].<ref name=timesofi/> Because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India]], there had been no award in the previous year. There for the government had invited awardees for the previous year and this year. President [[Ram Nath Kovind]] gave the award to Gupta and 28 other women.<ref name=timesofi>{{Cite web |date=March 9, 2022 |first=Faryal |last=Rumi |title=anita: Bhojpur Entrepreneur Among 29 Feted |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/bhojpur-entrepreneur-among-29-feted/articleshow/90088304.cms |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref> On the night before the award. they got to meet Prime Minister [[Narendra Modi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=PM Modi interacts with winners of Nari Shakti Puraskar |url=https://www.dailypioneer.com/2022/india/pm-modi-interacts-with-winners-of-nari--shakti-puraskar.html |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=The Pioneer |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Nari Shakti Puraskar}}
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[[Category:21st-century Indian businesswomen]]
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[[Category:1980s births]]
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[[Category:People from Bhojpur district, India]]

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