"An enterprise owned and controlled by a women having a minimum financial interest of 51 percent of the capital and giving at least 51 percent of the employment generated in the enterprise to women."Women are regarded as better half of the society. In traditional Indian societies, they were...

"Micro-credit is something which is not going to disappear...because this is a need of the people, whatever name you give it, you have to have those financial facilities coming to them because it is totally unfair...to deny half the population of the world financial services." - Mohammad Yunus...

The study is aimed to understand multidimensional empowerment framework. It views empowerment as a process having personal, economic, social and political dimensions, with personal empowerment being the ‘core' of the empowerment process. The study establishes that MFPs create empowerment...

CASHPOR Micro-Credit (CMC) is providing micro-credit on a large scale exclusively to poor in the poverty-incapacitated areas of eastern region of Uttar-Pradesh. CASHPOR was started in 1996 and as on 31st march, 2009 it has provided credit worth INR 1.82 billion to 319,000 poor women.This case...

Indian society in multifaceted to an extent perhaps unknown in any other of the world's great civilizations. Urban-rural differences can be immense. About 74 percent of India's population like in villages, with agriculture providing support for most of these rural residents, and the socio...

The future of country depends upon the entrepreneurial society for which prospective entrepreneurs must be groomed in large numbers. Development of entrepreneurship is key factor for self sustainability for any economy. India has great potentials for human resource as well as natural resources....

Gur (Jaggery) is a natural, traditional product of sugarcane. It can define as a honey brown coloured raw lump of sugar. Kushinagar has large number of Gur manufacturing units, mostly located in the rural areas and the manufacturers are following conventional methods for producing this. In the...

One of the major objectives of Indian banking sector reforms was to encourage operational self-sufficiency, flexibility and competition in the system and to increase the banking standards in India to the international best practices. The second phase of reforms began in 1997 with aim to...