Rural Women Entrepreneurship: Perspective and Challenges

Abstract

Rural development implies both the economic betterment of people as well as greater social transformation. In order to provide the rural poor people with better prospects for economic development. The rural women entrepreneur can act as an engine of economic development and rural industrialization. The industrial growth plays an important role of the growth of any nation by providing employment opportunities to the surplus labour force on the one hand and time bound building a culture of innovation on the other. However financial aids/incentives to the industries alone can not make miracles in improving the competitive strength at the global market. The President of India in his presidential address on Republic Day, 2005 made a point to create job for 76 million people. Dr. Kalam aimed at societal transformation by re-aligning the education system at the earliest to meet the needs of present day challenges and be fully geared to participate in societal transformation. Vision 2020 of Developed India given by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will not be possible if the mission 'Entrepreneurship's is not given its due credit. The present paper is an attempt to find out the schemes of the government to uplift the rural women and its implementation by the concerned agencies and it has been found that women are not getting their due.