At a time when women are making their presence felt in almost every sector, two-woman entrepreneurs from Hubballi have made the city proud through their ventures.

Shravani Pawar is empowering women from the marginalized sections by providing them economic independence through ‘Safe Hands 24×7’.

Ms. Pawar’s achievements are no less. Beginning her entrepreneurial journey in 2009, she has turned hundreds of village and destitute women into security guards and made them economically independent.

With ‘Safe Hands 24×7’, the first service industry in Karnataka to offer women security guards, Ms. Pawar now has her clients are spread across the State and an employee network of over 400. While the victory in the business plan contest of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), Hubballi in 2007 gave her the seed money for her venture, Deshpande Foundation assisted Ms. Pawar in her social entrepreneurship project. She was honored as ‘Women Entrepreneur 2011’, by TiE Stree Shakti, Mumbai. Now Ms. Pawar is one of the few female licensed trainers approved by the government of India to train security guards. Despite her achievements, she is humble and feels that her biggest satisfaction is that she could help underprivileged women.