The present book is a very significant document on promoting entrepreneurship amongst potential women and rural entrepreneurs of our country. The book is aimed at orienting this category of persons towards concepts, principles and practices of entrepreneurship and self employment. The ultimate objective is to convert a significant fraction of this population to opt for self employment and entrepreneurship as a better carrier option. The youth must set up and manage their private small and tiny manufacturing, trading and servicing ventures so as to make themselves independent and thus reducing pressure on the wage employment market. The book would be of immense benefit to students, teachers and practicing entrepreneurs to promote entrepreneurship. The Schools, Colleges, universities and other academic and technical institutions may use the book as reference material.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D.D. Sharma
Prof. D.D. Sharma (b. 1924) is a renowned scholar of Sanskrit and Linguistics. Besides a PhD in Sanskrit from the Benaras Hindu University, PhD and D.Litt in Linguistics from the Panjab University, Chandigarh - where he served or nearly 28 years - he holds diplomas in French, German and Persian. He also earned the highest Oriental title of Sahityacarya.Prof. Sharma is well acquainted with nearly two dozen Indian and foreign languages and has to his credit 48 research volumes and scores of research papers on the subjects of different languages, cultures and literatures.He was awarded the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship (1984-86) to undertake the linguistic survey of the Himalayan languages from Ladakh in the west to Bhutan in the east.On his retirement (1989), he was awarded Emeritus Fellowship by the UGC for the completion of his 12-volume research project on Himalayan languages, of which 10 volumes have already appeared. He is also working on a 9-volume project on Socio-Cultural History of Uttarakhand, of which 5 volumes have already been published. His ambitious project, Cultural Encyclopaedia of Uttarakhand (5 Vols.) is also under preparation.The present volume is an outcome of the research project for which he was awarded the Indira Gandhi Memorial Fellowship for the years 2001-2003 by IGNCA.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.K. Dhameja
Dr. S.K. Dhameja, Professor in the department of Entrepreneurship Development and Industrial Coordination at NITTTR, Chandigarh is a post graduate in Civil Engineering followed by doctorate in Entrepreneurship. At NITTTR, Chandigarh, he is involved in training of Engg. College and Polytechnic teachers, potential entrepreneurs and working professional from industries and is also involved in Curriculum Development, Research and Development, Extension Services and Consultancy work. Dr. S.K. Dhameja is author of two books on Environmental Engineering and Management and Women Entrepreneurs and co-editor of seven books in the area of entrepreneurship. He has a number of continuing education modules, research papers, readers and educational video films to his credit. Dr. Dhameja has presented a number of papers in national and international seminars/conferences. He is UNDP/UNIDO International fellowship holder and life member of Indian Society for Technical Education.
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