Women Entrepreneurship Development Through Self-Help Groups in India: A Review of Studies

TARGET GROUP: WOMEN

OBJECTIVES

·        To give proper guidance and training to enhance the productivity of the women's self-help group, and such a group may be encouraged to bring an entrepreneurial society.

·        To investigate the methods for the development of entrepreneurship among women.

SUMMARY

Entrepreneurship is a very crucial factor for the acceleration of economic growth of any country and women entrepreneurship development is an essential part of human resource development. Women entrepreneurs have started show more interest because it provides them an opportunity to be one’s own boss, the challenges they want to face and the chances of making more money, which outweigh their family duties. Moreover, technological development empowers women to acquire more relevant qualifications and values to meet the demands of entrepreneurship. To fill the gap in the implementation of this erstwhile self-employment must be designed to development of entrepreneurship among women, through which possible to develop the women empowerment. India has made tremendous spheres of life during the last five and half decades. Its economy has expanded and diversified. Society has become cohesive and polity democratized. It has also been facing many problems, some of which have successfully been solved, but many others still remain unsolved. Poverty is one such challenge India has been facing today. To fill these gaps the Government of India announced a holistic programme called Swarnjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), which is based on group approach to rural poor organized into self-help groups (SHGs) provided micro-credit and look up viable economic activities on their own.

REFERENCE

https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jbm/papers/Vol19-issue11/Version-3/F1911034448.pdf