Abstract: The present study was conducted in purposively selected district of U.P. State, Ambedkar Nagar in order to know the effect of entrepreneurial activities promoted by Government. Result revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to lower middle age group, married, belonged to SC/ST caste, were self employed, nuclear family, farming was family occupation, were members of Self Help Group, living in mixed houses and belonged to low socio-economic status. SHGs & self employment programmes are playing key role across the rural economy, the activities promoted through self employment programmes were dairy, goat rearing, poultry, tailoring and beauty parlor, bee-keeping, floriculture, readymade garments shops, pottery, bamboo handicrafts, furniture making and vegetable cultivation etc. Among these promoted activities few were discontinued due to lack of technical guidance. In this investigation, an effort was made to identify problems and constraints faced by women entrepreneurs in running their enterprises, so that a clear picture of the major impediments in smooth functioning of the enterprise could emerge and strategies to overcome these problems could be framed. Production and marketing related problems, technical problems, personal and family problems were found major hurdles faced by women entrepreneurs. Majority of the respondents had faced fatigue & debility (75.0%), heavy workload (65.0%) and lack of cooperation from family (45.0%) as personal and family constraints. More than half of the respondents (57.0%) faced lack of technical guidance. Lack of transport facilities and high fluctuation in demand of the products (82.0% and 79.0% respectively) were marketing related problems.
Keywords: women entrepreneurs, problems, self help group.
Title: Constraints of women in carrying out entrepreneurial activities
Author: Reeta Devi Yadav, Manju Gupta
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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