Entrepreneurship A Means for Inclusive Growth: A Case Study on SHGs of Pauri Garhwal (Uttarakhand)

TARGET GROUP: WOMEN

OBJECTIVES

·        To assess the group dynamics and profile of SHGs.

·        To study the entrepreneurship development initiatives undertaken by the stakeholders.

·        To evaluate the role of rural women entrepreneurs for inclusive growth.

SUMMARY

Empowerment of women is the major agenda of inclusive growth as Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, said: ‘when a man is educated, an individual is educated; when a woman is educated, a family and a country are educated.’ With this philosophy in mind, if a woman is given appropriate livelihood opportunities related to entrepreneurial development, she not only improves her living standards but also of the family and neighbourhood around her. Entrepreneurship is the ability and inclination to cultivate, consolidate and accomplish a business project along with threats in order to make profits. It is accepted as one of the four factors which consolidate land, labor, and capital to create income sources for other stake takers. ‘Women Entrepreneur’ as per GOI(Government of India) is ‘an enterprise owned and controlled by women having a minimum financial interest of 51 per cent of the capital and giving at least 51 per cent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women’. As per the Sixth Economic Census 2018(Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation), 14 per cent of the entrepreneurship i.e. 8.05 million of the total 58.5 million entrepreneurs comprised women, of which 2.76 million (13.3 per cent) are employed in the agriculture sector and 5.29 million (65 per cent) in the non-agriculture sector.

REFERENCE                       

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