Prospective of Rural Entrepreneurship to Fulfill the Gap of employment in Current Scenario

Vol-4 | Issue-10 | October 2019 | Published Online: 14 October 2019    PDF ( 212 KB )
Author(s)
Dr. Suyog A. Amrutrao 1

1Director, Department of Management Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Sub-Campus, Osmanabad. Maharashtra (India)

Abstract

“India Lives in Its Villages.”- Mahatma Gandhi, father of the nation, rightly used to say that India resides in its villages. The saying of Father of the Nation proves itself when we go for census study of India, period wise. Percentage of rural and urban population can be taken from the census studies of India . Though declining, but still major part of the population stays in the rural part of India. According to the Census study of 1901 89.20% of the total population was from rural India. According to the census survey of 1951, 82.70% and according to the survey of 2011, 68.84% of the total population is residing in rural geography of the country. This shows the power of man force available in the country, basically in rural geography. Majority of this rural population depend on either agriculture sector or the supportive and allied agriculture sector in the country. Though such huge population is the part of rural community of the country still the unemployment rate for rural is 6.9% as on 20th Feb, 2019 . Rural Entrepreneurship is one of the area by which country can get good employment opportunity. GST and Demonetization has brought slow down of market. This study to find the perspective of rural area for employment.

Keywords
Employment, Rural, Economy, Jobs.
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