New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- India's Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) is expanding into states and strengthening its public-private partnership model to boost women-led development, as it builds on its original mandate of bridging information gaps and moves into emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, Anna Roy, Principal Economic Advisor to NITI Aayog and Mission Director of WEP told ANI on Wednesday.

"When it was established and launched on the International Women's Day (March 8) in 2018, at that time primarily it was for overcoming information asymmetry amongst women entrepreneurs relating to various government schemes," Roy told ANI in an exclusive interview.

She added that WEP's vision also included "handholding them wherever ...