Volume : I, Issue : V, February - 2012
Problems of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in India: A Conceptual Overview
C. Jeyasri Usha N Devi, Dr. A. Sankaran
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“You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women” – Jawaharlal Nehru. The Indian economic development is characterized as imbalanced regional development. While a few areas are developed, the remaining vast (rural) areas remain underdeveloped even after more than sixty years of independence. The government of India has endeavored to reduce the skewness in regional development or promote balanced regional development by decentralizing the economic activities. One of the ways to initiate and promote economic development in backward areas is creation of entrepreneurship development to strengthen the village economy and promote regional development in developing countries like India. While, discussing the development of women entrepreneurship that it has been bound with a lot of problems. Hence, this paper traces the problems which are residing with rural entrepreneurs and to expose some suggestions for removing those problems. While scanning the growth and problems of rural women entrepreneurs from the available recourses it is clear that the lack of finance, lack of awareness, and insufficient support from government, financial institutions, non–governmental organizations and the society are the major problems. Therefore, it is suggested that it is need of the hour to create multifaceted methodologyfavorable government policy, family support, societal support and encouragement, separate counseling center, awareness program in rural areas, special seminars and skill development programms at the reachable point to eradicate this problem and enhance the rural women entrepreneurs. It will boom rural economy, generate employment, increase per capita income, dump down poverty and augment overall development of the nation.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijar
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C. Jeyasri Usha N Devi, Dr. A. Sankaran Problems of Rural Women Entrepreneurs in India:A Conceptual Overview Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.I, Issue.V February 2012
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