Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector plays a prominent role in the rural development by providing employment and income generation activities to economically and socially marginalised sections. Faster growth rate may not reach the root level of society, most of socially and economically marginalised sections have been not benefiting from bumper growth rates. Most of large scale industries excluded economically and socially marginalised sections of the society, especially poor, SC, ST and women. Among the Micro, Small, Medium Enterprises (MSME), microenterprises act as a best empowerment tool for the socially marginalised sections like, schedule caste and schedule tribes. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector having two special characteristics, first one is low capital requirement and second one is traditional way of doing business. These two special characteristic of MSME sector provides more entrepreneurial skill and employment to poor, SC, ST and women in rural area. Microenterprises have been giving solution for the problem of disguised unemployment in rural segments by providing income and employment generation. The present study is mainly examines the role of micro enterprises on social inclusion in MSME sector of Andhra Pradesh. The Present study is based on secondary data and analytical in nature, have used simple statistical tools like compound annual growth rates, average annual percentages changes to analyse role of micro enterprises on social inclusion in MSME sector of A.P.
MSME, Inclusive growth, Entrepreneurship, Marginalised sections, Rural development
