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Know how this Women entrepreneur grew her small organization to handle roughly 20% of FASTag toll plazas

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If you frequently travel across the country with a FASTag sticker on your windshield, you have most likely passed through Comvision India's automated toll plazas. Harjinder Kaur Talwar, the company's founder, began her career as an entrepreneur at the age of 23 in 1995, when it was nearly impossible for women to obtain bank loans on their own. As a result, Talwar had to enlist the help of her father as a business partner in order to acquire an Rs 3 lakh bank loan to create Comvision India, a computer-training services company for corporations at the time. However, the industry was not ready at the time, as only a few significant companies were interested in IT training. In the interim, Talwar experimented with the e-governance sector in India to improve the business model. Talwar, who founded the company in Hyderabad in 1999, approached the Andhra Pradesh government for a chance to develop backend technology solutions to deliver various government-to-citizen (G2C) servic...