SUSTAINABLE GROWTH PERSPECTIVE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS ADVANTAGED FROM PMEGP SCHEME

Women’s entrepreneurship has been identified as an important factor in economic development. Women entrepreneurs can create new jobs for themselves and others. However, they continue to be a minority among all entrepreneurs. Women are key to vital economic activities and national development. Women entrepreneurs commonly encounter gender-based impediments to starting and growing their firms, including discriminatory property, marriage, and inheritance regulations, a lack of formal financial resources, limited mobility and access to information and networks, and so on. Women’s entrepreneurship has the potential to greatly contribute to economic well-being in families and communities, poverty reduction, and women’s empowerment, all of which contribute to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The poor’s entrepreneurship, a participatory transition through self-employment, is widely recognised as a means of avoiding existing power structures, embedded gender inequalities, and gaining agency through improved financial status, which can be achieved through state livelihood development programme interventions such as the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), particularly in the Tamilnadu districts of Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram. The purpose of this article is to analyse the efficiency of PMEGP in the study area in terms of its sustainability growth perspective of women entrepreneurs who benefited from PMEGP schemes in the Tamilnadu districts of Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram.