• Monoj Bora
• Dr. Jyoti Prasad Saikia

Abstract Entrepreneurship Development refers to the process of enhancing entrepreneurial skills and knowledge through structured training and institution-building programmes. Women entrepreneurs bring together the productive resources and act as a catalytic agent in the process of economic development and entrepreneurship is the skill and ability, which initiate innovations and undertake the risk. This paper is attempt to examine the how women are empowered in entrepreneurial activities and observed the motivating factors of women to start their own entrepreneurial enterprises. In this context, the socio-economic status of the women entrepreneurs have been observed and analyzed. In this work investigated the phenomenon by using in depth interview and observation techniques at Duliajan town of Assam. The study found that women entrepreneurs have been engaged in different types of entrepreneurial activities. They have successfully developed their socio-economic status through entrepreneurship development. The women have been empowered through economic independence through which they get the opportunity to have control over their self reliance, self-determination and a way to achieve favourable social status.

Key words: - Entrepreneurship development, Empower, Entrepreneurial activities.

"Women and entrepreneurship development: a sociological study of Duliajan Town of Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.708-716, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812192.pdf

"Women and entrepreneurship development: a sociological study of Duliajan Town of Assam", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp708-716, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812192.pdf