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WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING : A NEED OF AN HOUR

Dimple Kshatriya & Asha Patil

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Entrepreneurship has become popular and respectable area today. Entrepreneurship is the key to rapid growth of a country. Entrepreneurship is an activity that aims at starting establishing and increasing the size of an enterprise that produces and sells goods or services in market. Doing new things and doing things that are already done in a new way is therefore a simple definition of entrepreneurship. Thus Entrepreneurship concept does not have any gender bias. The main objective of the study was to develop women entrepreneur from Baroda city. The project focused on three aspects i.e training, availing financial loans and starting their own enterprise in different business as per their skill and resources available with them. . We know about women’s socialization pattern, behavior, how their role and responsibility do not allow them to think and behave in an entrepreneurial way. Assessing and developing behavior and attitudes of women for becoming successful is the most important component of the project.. Thus project worker thought of helping women to become entrepreneur by motivating and providing training on entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship trainees are exposed to inspirational lectures highlighting the benefits of entrepreneurship to consolidate their motivational levels. This followed by lecture of faculty members and expert drawn from various organizations, financial institutions and by successful entrepreneurs dwelling on topics such as entrepreneurial competencies, preparation of a project report, personnel management, sources of financial assistance, market survey, taxation, publicity and advertisement, account keeping, general management, marketing strategy etc. apart from all above inputs, field visits are arranged for practical exposure. Twenty-three women had attended entrepreneurship training and fifteen women started their own business.. Thus this action project helped women to become economically Independent by starting their own small scale business.

Keyword: Women, Entrepreneurship, and training

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