Paper Details

Name: Archana .M.V & Raghunandan G H
Country: India

Year: 2025
Volume: Volume No: 12, Issue No: 2, Year: 2025 (Specials Issue -2)
Page Number: 51-56
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17934666

ABSTRACT:
In order to stimulate the entrepreneurship, the Government of India has launched the Prime
Minister’s Employment Generation Programme to promote self- employment and
entrepreneurship activities among the youth and helping them to overcome the financial
barriers. This study shows that PMEGP programme can assist the youths to take up the new
ventures and also encourage the entrepreneurs to innovative and come up with new ideas and
concepts. This study investigates the level of awareness and challenges of PMEGP among
the respondents of Mysore district and simple random sample was used to select the sample
size of the study. Sample size of the study is 224. A structured questionnaire was used to
collect the responses from the respondents. To attain the research objectives descriptive
research is adopted to assess the level of awareness and challenges of PMEGP. The finding
reveals that there is a moderate proportion of respondents are aware about the PMEGP. These
study insights can aid to the agencies to refining the strategies and improving the schemes
policies to promote the self-employment in Karnataka.
Key words: PMEGP , Entrepreneurial development