ECONOMIC HAPPINESS THROUGH MICRO ENTREPRENEURSHIP – A CASE STUDY OF WEST BENGAL URBAN MICRO WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Micro Finance

Providing affordable small credit to the entrepreneurial poor to initiate self-employment has been recognized as a prime component of development strategies from a long time to alleviate poverty in India. In particular, Women Micro-Entrepreneurship is considered to be an appropriate option for a sustainable development of household economy in the urban West Bengal. Many schemes and resources have thus been devoted to the provision of such micro-credit targeted at the poor, especially women. The Ministry of HUPA, GoI currently runs various major programmes targeting urban poor and improving the access of them to basic services and sustainable livelihood. These include NRY, SJSRY, BSUP, JNNURM, IHSDP and RAY. Of late in 1990s, Urban Livelihood Programmes (ULPs) like SJSRY and JNNURM were floated to encourage entrepreneurship among urban poor women. The present research has made a humble attempt to study the manifestation of economic happiness among the urban micro women entrepreneurs as an impact of the micro-entrepreneurship and to suggest some policy recommendations for spreading economic happiness among poor women.

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