• Janmejay Senapati
• Bhabani Shankar Dash
• Ranjan Kumar Dash

Entrepreneurs indubitably plays an important role in every economy be it underdeveloped, developing or developed. Unlike businessmen, they keep innovating keeping change as constant and leaving the world with many opportunities. They also create healthy competition among aspirants and leave behind their footprints in the mind of next generation thereby creating a continuously evolving environment. Entrepreneurs in developed countries have established their role in propelling the economic growth and over a period of time created an cohesive ecosystem to continuously germinate new players. However entrepreneurship in developing and underdeveloped countries is not free from challenges. Market acceptance, funding, technical knowhow, hasty competition, infrastructure etc. poses as latent threat to entrepreneurial initiatives. While it is important to have more and more entrepreneurs for the Indian economy to grow, a sustainable approach is definitely need of the time. Hence this study is an attempt to discuss about the objective, current status, roles, influencing factors and challenges of entrepreneurship and suggest a plausible solution towards sustainability of entrepreneurs which can help the sector become a perennial source in the economic development of India.

entrepreneurship, economic growth, sustainability, employment

"Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.l66-l72, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205C11.pdf

"Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppl66-l72, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205C11.pdf