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Case Study of : Role of Social Entrepreneur in Rural Area of Maharashtra State |
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18881 Submission Date :
12/05/2024 Acceptance Date :
22/05/2024 Publication Date :
25/05/2024
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| Abstract |
Social entrepreneurs are reformer of society” this sentence is very true about social entrepreneur. If entrepreneurs go with their so-called main objectives of making profit and serving customer, only entrepreneur’s customer’s living standard will be focused. But social entrepreneur is concern with finding the solution of social, cultural and environmental issues. The prime object of social entrepreneur to solves social issue and collectively development of society. Still such efforts should be promoted in the rural parts in Maharashtra state to attend problem. |
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| Keywords | Social Entrepreneurs, Maharashtra, Neglected Or Under Development, Collectively Development. | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduction | Social
entrepreneurs are playing vital role to development of society. profit making
is prime object of entrepreneurs. Only entrepreneur’s and customer’s living
standard will be heightened. But social entrepreneur is concern with finding
the solution of social, cultural and environmental issues of down road
community. The lives of such people are taking good breath because of them.
Social entrepreneurship is the use of the techniques that startup companies and
other entrepreneurs to develop fund and implement solution to social, cultural
or environmental issues. Positive changes have been done with the help of
social entrepreneurs in this country till now. Since profit making is secondary object there for, they are people who passionate and determined about what they do. the possess a very high-level motivation and visionaries who aim at bringing about a change in the way things are social entrepreneurship as a practice that integrates economics and social value creation has a long heritage and global presence. |
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| Aim of study |
1. To find out
contribution or, role of social entrepreneur in Rural area of in Maharashtra
state. 2. To find out
social entrepreneur is a system to solve many social problems and an +approach
to create wealth, social wellbeing within Rural area of Maharashtra state. Research
Problem The social
entrepreneurship is most applicable in nations which have developmental issues.
India being a developing nation has its own social challenges and social
developmental issues. Social entrepreneurship can resolve all the social
inequalities which are prevailing in India. In recent times, some startups/new
ventures have developed keeping social interests in mind and providing sustainable
solution to social issues and earning their profits as well.
Communal and
cost-effective circumstance Indian states is not similar all over the country.
Several states are progressed as compare to other in case cost effective
circumstances, communal developments, standard of living wage. The state,
Maharashtra, in itself is to bring out by these uniformities in its states. |
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| Review of Literature | Social entrepreneur not only mingle of innovation but
also Social influence, taking Social issues with the help of supportable or
various business mockup. Social entrepreneur determine modifiy or change by addressing required like education, environment, health accepting business can be force for good. 2. According to copy right 2024 HQ Digest | powerd by Astra word press theme According to Varsha pilla readdy | Dec 23, 2023. Currently India has 15 million Social entrepreneur who are work on creating Social and environmental changes .particularly in Urban India. For eg. 1. Anshu Gupta (GoonjOrganization) 2. Chetna Sinha ( Manndeshi Bank) 3. Nillam Chhiber (Rural Spark) 4. Vandna Gyal ( Aajeevika Bureau) In this article explained top Social entrepreneur and Social enterprises in India and how they are changing the face of Urban India. 3. According to department of entrepreneurship education, Guangzhou city construction college. Aiwen wang ¹,² , Check muiyee². Social entrepreneurs are focused many areas for us to inspect. Social entrepreneurship one of the important brige to maintain balance in society. Social entrepreneur are play important role for solving Social problem and promoting Social innovation. |
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| Hypothesis | 1. H0.There are the rural areas in Maharashtra state. H1. There are no rural areas in Maharashtra state 2. H0 There is growth of social entrepreneur in Maharashtra state H1. There is low growth of social entrepreneur Maharashtra state |
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| Methodology | Research
Design: Research design
refers to the framework of market research methods and techniques that are
chosen by a researcher. The design that is chosen by the researchers allow them
to utilize the methods that are suitable for the study and to set up their
studies successfully in the future as well. A research
design is the arrangement of condition for collection and analysis of the data in
a manner of the aims to combine relevance to the research purpose with the Role
of social Entrepreneurs. Type of Study: Descriptive
Method Descriptive
method refers to the methods that describe the characteristics of the variables
under study. This methodology focuses on answering questions relating to “what”
than the “why” of the research subject. The primary focus of descriptive
research is to simply describe the nature of the demographics under study
instead of focusing on the “why”. Descriptive research is called an
observational research method as none of the variables in the study are
influenced during the process of the research. Sources of Data
Collection Secondary Data: Secondary data
is the data that has already been collected through primary sources and made
readily available for researchers to use for their own research. It is a type
of data that has already been collected in the past. A researcher may have collected the data for particular research, then made it available to be used by another researcher. The data may also have been collected for general use with no specific research purpose like in the case of the national census. Data classified as secondary for particular research may be said to be primary for another research. This is the case when data is being reused, making it primary data for the first research and secondary data for the second research it is being used for. Sources of secondary data include books, personal sources, journals, newspapers, websites, government records etc. |
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| Analysis |
Meaning and Definition of Social Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship is one of the important tributaries of entrepreneurship, it is more than just philanthropy and has deeper and immense impact on social changes/upliftment in developing nations. Government has started encouraging social entrepreneurship to great extent so that the social inequalities can be handled and an ideal society can be achieved as well. Social entrepreneurship is meant by special sort of initiatives, which is both social work and economic in nature. This definition of social entrepreneurship is clearly puts forward the basic components of social entrepreneurship; they are: 1. It is undertaken by special group of people refereed as social entrepreneurs 2. It is situation where social problem is identified and solved using entrepreneurial principles. 3. The main purpose stands at bringing social changes, rather than making individual profits. 4. Social entrepreneurship is successful in terms of not the big profits, but the unquantifiable social impacts. 5. The venture established by social entrepreneurs is called as social enterprise and prime focus is on social innovations for prevailing social problems. “Social entrepreneurship is the process of recognizing and resourcefully pursuing opportunities to create social value for society. Social entrepreneurs are innovative, motivated for resolving social issues, resourceful, and results oriented. They prepare a mind-set after best thinking in both the business and non-profit worlds to develop strategies that maximize their social impact by addressing social inequalities and social problems. These entrepreneurs exist in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid. Such organizations comprise the ‘social sector The contribution made by social entrepreneurship: 1.Social entrepreneurship focuses on deprived/weak section of society, India has over 27crore people living under such conditions. So social entrepreneurship becomes relevant and it is needed the most for uplifting this section of people. 2.Social entrepreneurship sees social benefits as primary and profits as secondary. This helps in getting great products/services on quite affordable prices. 3.Social entrepreneurship address the social problems, such problems may include illiteracy, girl child abuse, financing, health, potable water etc. Social entrepreneurship helps in meeting these social problems by capitalizing the local resources and applying entrepreneurial principles. 4.Social entrepreneurship also innovates like any other branch of entrepreneurship, but this innovation is slightly different. This innovation is termed as social innovation, as they are focused upon the social problems. The social innovation is nothing but finding out the most innovative and unique solution of social problems. 5.One of the most important needs of social entrepreneurship is towards bottom of the pyramid. This bottom of the pyramid referred to the people who have minimalistic income, but high acceptance for social innovations. Entrepreneurs in Maharashtra- 1. Vaishali Bothra :
Vaishali was an Apex Board Member in JITO from 2018 till 2020 and Vice-Chairperson, Gujarat JITO Ladies Wing National Working Committee. She is passionate about women’s empowerment and social upliftment and has a Vision for integrated growth and development of women across all sectors. Her work in the Integrated Development of rural villages is recognized and highly appreciated. 2. Pinkky Rajgarhiya :
She is the Founder of Chingari Shakti Foundation, that advocates on Beti Bachao, Beti Padao, an NGO for women Development and Empowerment. Professionally she works as a Child Psychologist. 3. Anuja Saha :
Naata Foundation is an NGO based in Mumbai and primarily working in the tribal clusters of Aarey region. She’s work is mainly divided up into the following categories– Education, Vocational Education, Environment and Health. We work directly with the locals and have adopted 6 entire padas. 4. Rtn Gurdeep Kaur Bhamra:
Rtn Gurdeep kaur Bhamra, Is known for her social service. Many people in community know her as a tireless & selfless worker who is passionate about “Seva”. 5. Sangeeta Babani :
She has exhibited her paintings at the prestigious and iconic Jehangir Gallery in Mumbai in addition to countless groups exhibitions and 12 solo exhibitions in India and abroad. Challenges Faced by Social Entrepreneurship in India- Social entrepreneurship, like any other branch of social entrepreneurship also faces challenges. All the challenges are either controllable or non- controllable, but all the challenges are manageable. Some of the prominent challenges faced by social entrepreneurship in India are given below 1. Confusion with social work- Social entrepreneurship is mostly in India is confused with social work, hence it issuable to make a mark as an individual entity in India. This is starting of challenge for social entrepreneurship. 2. The problem of creativity- The next problem which is faced by social entrepreneurship is lack of creativity regarding thinking great ideas for betterment of society and earning profits as well. 3. Arranging finance- One of the challenges for entrepreneurship in India remains lack of financial sources. 4. Shortage of talented/dedicated workforce- This is a very unique challenge faced by social entrepreneurship exclusively. Since the prime objective of social entrepreneurship is to get social gains/benefits rather than personal gains/benefits. Under this condition it is very hard to get people to work for the firm. 5. Setting and communicating value objectively- The important challenge of social entrepreneurship is to setting and communicating values clearly. The survey 5 Apr 2023— More than 92,000 entities recognized as startups since launch of Startup India 26,542 were registered in 2022. 13,519 start-ups were registered in Maharashtra. Maharashtra is a hub for start-ups. As per the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Maharashtra, Karnataka, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have the largest numbers of entrepreneurs. Survey findings revealed the tendency for social enterprises to be headquartered in metropolitan and major cities. 68 per cent of the social enterprises were headquartered in Pune, Mumbai, Nashik, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. One of the main reasons for headquarter situated in metro cities is decent infrastructure, access to financial capital and a good pool of knowledge, skills and talent 57 per cent of entrepreneurs said that they operate as a private limited company. This mirrors the social enterprise model- the section 8 company1 . 20 per cent of respondents said they are operating as NGOs (societies and trusts) and 7 per cent are operating as sole proprietors. As per the British Council report before 2000, social enterprises were primarily of two kind’s private limited companies or societies/ trusts (plus a few sole ventures). However, after 2015, social enterprises are operating in various forms such as Section 8 companies, limited liability companies, public limited companies, partnerships, and sole ventures (although private limited companies and societies/trusts still form a large proportion of the sector).
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| Conclusion |
Social entrepreneurship can change the face
of society in India, there have been many such examples and projects which run
under the banner of social entrepreneurship and proved to be life altering for people of that vicinity. In India especially
social entrepreneurship has better prospects
as the social problems are at full swing
here. Social entrepreneurship is a unique combination of entrepreneurial traits
and philanthropy. In social
entrepreneurship products and
services are designed to make maximum social impact along with making
considerable profits for the firm. The study has the following findings 1. Social entrepreneurship is a best combination of social service and entrepreneurial skills to look for social problems. As per the data analysis the most of the start ups are formed as Privet limited company but for social entrepreneurs to be headquartered in metropolitan and major cities. According to analysis we conclude that social entrepreneur growth low in rural area compare to urban area. |
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