It has become more prominent efforts for accelerating the pace of women empowerment in India in general and that of Bihar in Particular. Taking such view in mind, an attempt is made to assess and evaluate the impact of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, as stimulant for women Empowerment with special reference to a micro study undertaken in West Champaran district of Bihar. This study is purely a pilot study conducted in few samples’ households running micro Small and Medium Enterprises for their livelihood. The total number of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) registered on Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM) portal from August 2015 to July 12, 2018, is approx. 48.45 lakh. Out of this total, 43,18,851 are registered as micro, 5,00,947 as small and 19,771 as Medium Enterprises. The Central Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Giriraj Singh stated this in written replies in the Rajya Sabha. He had given informed that the highest number of 7,70,871 MSMEs registered are from Bihar followed by Uttar Pradesh (5,96,036), Delhi (5,88,483), Maharashtra ( 5,70,101), and Gujarat (4,86,080). The number of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises registered from the Northeastern states, including Sikkim is 27, 724, with Manipur standing highest at 17,240. The Central Minister informed that MSMEs registration allows entrepreneurs the benefits from various schemes like Credit Guarantee Scheme, Credit Linked Capital Subsidies Scheme, Lean Manufacturing Competitiveness Scheme, Micro and Small Enterprises Cluster Development Program, Scheme for Promoting Innovation, Rural Industry & Entrepreneurship, Revamped Scheme of Fund for Regeneration of Traditional Industries, Design Clinic Scheme for MSMEs, and financial support to ZED certification in (micro-small and medium enterprises) MSMEs scheme, besides the schemes of other ministries. Simple method of analysis is used to analyse the primary as well as secondary data collected through micro-study in this regard. The whole discussion mode so far is classified in to five sections. Section-I Presents an introductory note on the topic, section-II Synopticview of the problem of women empowerment, section-III The impact of MSMEs policy on Bihar. Section-IV analyses the findings of the micro-study undertaken in this regard and Section-V reflected the summary and concluding remarks of the study with the suitable suggestions for making this programme most effective and efficient. The whole discussion made so far in the present study enables us to say that women, the half part of our total population require a lot of efforts for their empowerment. Empowerment of any section of civilised society demand an adequate effort. Because, empowerment is not only concerned with the economic empowerment; but it stresses a lot of academic, social, cultural and political empowerment for overall empowerment of women. This study is mainly concerned with the economic empowerment of women. The variables taken in to consideration is micro-finance, money income and micro enterprises. The hypothesis tested in this study is based on the hypothesis that micro enterprises have positive impact on the socioeconomic and cultural academic status of women. The finding of this study highlights that the availability of micro-finances accelerates the process of micro- enterprises establishment which in turn in fuels the process of women empowerment.
