Women form an important segment of the labour force and the economic role played by them cannot be isolated from the framework of development. Self employment or entrepreneurship are the important sources towards the improvement of the economic participation of women and in raising their status in society. Women in rural areas constitute a substantial share in India's population. Today the government also in its different policies has given importance to rural development through rural entrepreneurship. This has widened the scope of opportunities for entrepreneurship for rural women. Various factors are responsible for the development of entrepreneurship in women, of which training them with the necessary skills and providing them with the required information is of paramount importance. The present study is based on the primary data collected from 120 sample women entrepreneurs of 6 villages of Karveer taluka of Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, through questionnaires. The objective of the study is to evaluate the role of training programmes in developing entrepreneurship among rural women entrepreneurs. The findings are given on the basis of data analysed through percentage technique. Analysed data shows that self help groups are the major platform of information for training of rural women in entrepreneurship. Dual responsibilities makes it difficult for rural women entrepreneurs to participate in entrepreneurial training programmes beyond their village locations. They expect the training programmes to be more motivational and the content to be in published form.
Attendance, Entrepreneurship, Motivational, Self help groups, Training programmes
