• Analjyoti Basu
• Dr. Amit Choudhury

A country’s development depends upon the synchronous development of its each and every region and part. However, for India, the concept of equal growth and development fall short for imbalanced growth and development in certain regions and parts. The North-Eastern region of India, comprising eight states (Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh), spells out in favour of imbalanced regional growth. It is considered the economically laggard region of the country due to an inefficiently managed economy, lack of political vision and inefficiency in exploring the abundant natural resources of the region. However, the situation is changing as the eight states (Sikkim, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Tripura, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh) have join hands with other parts of India for unified growth and development. All the eight states GSDP Growth(04-05 Prices) have surpassed Indian average GSDP Growth of 4.74( Updated till 19th August,2015 by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Govt. of India). Following the data obvious question arises that what the main factors are advocating for the growth process. As the region has almost 30% tribal population (27.27% , as per the census 2011), obviously the growth and development depends largely on the above said one-third population, the tribal entrepreneurs. The present study tries to find different issues in the study of tribal entrepreneurship in the densely populated tribal districts of North-East India. The districts selected were East-Khasi Hills and Ri-Bhoi from Meghalaya, Churachandpur from Manipur and Aizawl from Mizoram where tribal population is more than 2 Lakhs and tribal population density with respect to the total population of the district is more than 80% (Census, 2011). Primary data survey by the help of interviewing process, involving more than 150 tribal entrepreneurs from the aforesaid four districts, were carried out for the purpose.

Business scenario, North-East India, entrepreneur’s view

"Issues in studying business scenario of North East India - The tribal entrepreneur's perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.447-459, July-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905R67.pdf

"Issues in studying business scenario of North East India - The tribal entrepreneur's perspective", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp447-459, July-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905R67.pdf