Entrepreneurship Development Paves Way for Women Empowerment

Abstract

Empowerment of women has emerged as an important issue in recent times.  Entrepreneurship development and income generating activities are a feasible solution for empowering women.  The Self Help Groups (SHGs) have paved the way for economic independence of rural women. Participation in income generating activities helps in the overall empowerment of women. The members of SHGs are involved in Micro Entrepreneurships with the help of Training given by NABARD through SHGs. Through that, they are becoming economically independent and providing employment opportunities to others.  The main aim of this paper is to empower women. The objective of the study is to the various entrepreneurial training activities given through SHGs and advantages of micro entrepreneurship. The study also analyzes the challenges and opportunities of women entrepreneurs. The study is based on secondary data. Secondary data is collected mainly from the report of the NABARD, journals, articles, books and internet. Analysis showed that more than 9000 skill up gradation training programmes have been conducted since 2006. These initiatives covering about 2.41 lakh members of matured SHGs.