A STUDY ON WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR’S AWARENESS ABOUT GOVERNMENT SCHEMES- SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHENNAI DISTRICT, TAMIL NADU

In recent times in India, Women Entrepreneurship has becoming an emerging trending pace in the development of economy of self, their family and nation. The state of Tamil Nadu is one of the best industrially developing area where, Women Entrepreneurs excel in Small scale industry. In the last two decades, Women are facing many opportunities in Entrepreneurship which not only increases their self-sufficiency, self-esteem, education and growth but also helps their families and employees. They play a significant role in creation of employment opportunities exclusively for Women Job seekers. Though Women Entrepreneurs has positive impact on Entrepreneurship, they also face a lot of hurdles and problems especially in fund generation. Women Entrepreneurs must have good source of knowledge with regard to finance. For this, Government has introduced many financial schemes and training programmes among Women in order to promote Entrepreneurship which encourages them to earn self-income. Now a days, Many Government as well as Non-Government agencies plays a vital role in Women Entrepreneurship in the form of providing training, Loan disbursement, economic development and merchandising. The purpose of this article is to study the level of awareness of Government schemes among Women Entrepreneurs in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This paper discusses about various Government schemes available to Women Entrepreneurs and lists out successful Women Entrepreneurs in Chennai. The data has been collected from two hundred (respondents) Women Entrepreneurs in Chennai. The hypothesis will be tested at 0.05% level of significance.