TY - SER AU - Rani, R. Amudha TI - Rural Women Owned Micro Enterprises PY - 2007/// KW - Rural Women Owned Micro Enterprises KW - Women Entrepreneurship KW - Women KW - Sustainable Entrepreneurship KW - Microfinance KW - Microenterprises KW - Micro-Enterprises, Micro-Finance And Sus KW - Entrepreneurshipip KW - Seventh Biennial Conference On The New F KW - Biennial Conference Papers N2 - Self-employment is the best employment and entrepreneurship is the most important mode of self employment. A holistic programme covering all aspects of self employment was introduced by the Government of India in 1999, which is popularly known as Swaranjayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana [SGSY].Generation of self- employment for the poor in rural areas is one of the important components of anti- poverty and rural development strategy adopted by the Ministry of Rural Development. SGSY is a single cell self- employment programme for rural poor aimed at establishment of large number of micro enterprises. Women's development is directly related with national development. The effective management and development of women's resources, their abilities, interests, skills and other potentialities are of paramount importance in human resources development. Rural women entrepreneurship play a catalytic role in activating the factors of production leading to an over all economic development in India. The SGSY scheme unlike the previous scheme could make a difference either because it is integrated and able to promote grass root level entrepreneurship. The study aims at analyzing the development ER -