Title: Problems and Prospects of Women Entrepreneurship in India - An Investigative Study in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh
Abstract: Entrepreneurship among women in India is a recently fast growing concept. The Central and State Governments have initiated a number of measures in recent years for giving a great fillip to the cause of women entrepreneurship development by way of granting a variety of special concessions, incentives, subsidies, rebates and assistance of varied nature, financial, technical, organizational and managerial, etc. The banking sector also has been contributing its share for this cause. They have evolved a number of schemes of assistance to the benefit of women entrepreneurs. Several of the women entrepreneurs, who have set up industrial and commercial units with great optimism, are not able to achieve all their targeted goals. It is all because of plethora of problems they are confronted with in the course of promotion and development of their units. Several of these units have not been able to achieve the desired levels of operational efficiency and economic viability. With this backdrop, the researcher has made an attempt to evaluate the problems and prospects of women entrepreneurship in Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh with the objectives to analyze the socio-economic profile, educational and family background of women entrepreneurs, to identify the reasons that made the women to become entrepreneurs, to ascertain the factors responsible for their success, to study the problems faced by them and to examine the prospects of women entrepreneurs. A survey has been conducted about the problems and prospects of the respondents in the district by using a well structured questionnaire. Based on the results of the survey some viable suggestions are offered for the betterment of women entrepreneurship in the district.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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