Research Paper
Year: 2023 | Month: July | Volume: 10 | Issue: 7 | Pages: 824-830
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20230797
Challenges and Opportunities of Tribal Entrepreneurship: A Study on Tribal People of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Chandni Sharma1, Pranav Tiwari2, Siddarth Satpathi3
1PhD Scholar, Department of Commerce, V.Y.T. PG College, Hemchand Yadav Vishwavidyalaya, Durg (CG)
2PhD Scholar Govt Engineering College, Bilaspur Chhattisgarh, 465001
3Assistant professor, J K College of Science, Arts and Commerce, Bilaspur Chhattisgarh, 465001
Corresponding Author: Chandni Sharma
ABSTRACT
Tribal entrepreneurship is an economic developmental programme, in which the government and non-governmental organisations provide the skill to the tribal people in order to be self-employed in their own businesses. Chhattisgarh is a newly formed state and have around 30% of its total population recorded as tribal population. Since these people aren’t actively involved in different economic development programmes including Tribal entrepreneurship. They face number of challenges while accepting this domain of government. Thus, in the present study the challenges and opportunities for the tribal entrepreneurs of Bilaspur Chhattisgarh are investigated. A pretested and validated questionnaire was used. The major challenges which the tribal entrepreneurs are facing were; financial problems, policy change in less time, lack of technical expertise, low level of motivation, marketing of the product, inadequate infrastructure, creating the business idea and vision, and managing competition. The opportunities which the tribal entrepreneurs of Bilaspur Chhattisgarh have were; agriculture, herbal products, tourism opportunity, handicraft business, and forest product entrepreneurship. The state government should focus on the challenges which the tribal entrepreneurs are facing in Bilaspur Chhattisgarh. Proper initiatives should be taken and schemes should be launched to overcome the reported challenges which tribal people is facing in Bilaspur District. If these challenges are fixed properly then the tribal people will involve actively in the tribal entrepreneurship programmes in Bilaspur Chhattisgarh.
Keywords: Tribal entrepreneurship, Challenges, Opportunities, Bilaspur
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