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VOL. 5, ISSUE 4 (2019)
Income generation and entrepreneurial success in rural Assam through micro-finance (A study of jorhat district)
Authors
Ajit Chandra Das
Abstract
Needless to say, the main purpose of the village women coming out of their homes and taking to entrepreneurial practices through Micro-finance is to gain economically empowered by way of income generation through commercial activities. More the amount of income generated, more they become economically empowered, leading to their more economic freedom. In a country like India where women constitutes close to 50 per cent of population with large majority of the country’s population living in rural areas, the prosperity of the country remains a distant reality for ever unless the concealed potentiality of this vulnerable section of the society is adequately utilized. The most serious constraint to our women in taking up entrepreneurial activities is that in a male dominated society like ours, women in general do not possess properties in their names and as such, their access to institutional credit is limited to the ‘sweet will’ of male counterpart of their families. As Micro Finance through creation of Self Help Groups gives the villagers opportunity to stand for themselves through bank linkage; for our village women, it is a unique opportunity to develop their entrepreneurship zeal. Accordingly, a large number of our rural women have taken to entrepreneurship through creation of SHGs. In this paper, an attempt has been made by the researchers to throw a light on the annual income generated by the sample women entrepreneurs from their business ventures and also to examine as to whether there is any causal relation between the sizes of income generated by the sample women entrepreneurs from their business and the socio-economic factors to which the sample entrepreneurs and their enterprises are subjected.
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Pages:30-36
How to cite this article:
Ajit Chandra Das "Income generation and entrepreneurial success in rural Assam through micro-finance (<em>A study of jorhat district</em>)". International Journal of Commerce and Management Research, Vol 5, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 30-36
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