Women entrepreneurship in India (A case study in Andhra Pradesh)

In India, entrepreneurship among women is of recent origin. Socio – economic background is an important factor that influences the woman to start their business. Money is not the sole objective among woman entrepreneurs to enter in to the business. The studies relating to woman entrepreneurs in rural areas further reveal that training and awareness regarding different agencies have proved beneficial for women entrepreneurs in building confidence. Since entrepreneurship development involves provision of additional channels of funds in the form of working capital and credit, training, management skill etc., DWCRA with an entrepreneurial development of women provides all these inputs by considering women as critical to development. This intervention aims at not only raising the income of rural women of poor households, but also enabling organized participation of groups in the programme of credit, skill training and infrastructure support for self employment in groups who cannot take up economic activities, individually as their own.