Re-Inventing NGOs as Social Enterprises: A Manipur Perspective E. Romen Kumar Singh*, Elangbam Nixon Singh** Introducion Manipur is one of the north-eastern states of India having longstanding politico-military conlict between state and non-state actors. Geographically it is a part of south-east Himalayan region located at the periphery of the country and indicating slow industrial growth. Due to geo- * Research Scholar, Department of Management, Mizoram University, Mizoram, India. Email:rksingh.romenkumar@gmail.com ** Associate professor, Department of Management, Mizoram University, Mizoram, India. Email: singhnixon@yahoo.co.in, enix1969@gmail.com Abstract The non-proit sector or simply the NGO has grown substantially in the past few decades and has been instrumental in meeting societal needs, but its impact to the society is still limited by its inability to sustain or scale initiatives. For future growth, they have to rely on the public and private sectors for inancial support. The question of inancial support is always associated with problems but the degree may vary from one funding agency to another. Such problems being faced by the NGOs in the state can be taken as main reasons for adopting social enterprise model. Problems of access to funding may be considered as one of the major compelling factor to adopt social enterprise model. The present study tried to bring out suggestions for NGOs to re-think over their necessary organisational metamorphosis in order to enable them to work inde- pendently from the funding agencies. It can minimize to large extent the shortcomings arising out of the close scrutiny and directives from the funding agencies, and hence they can prioritize their activities and work ac- cording to their own pre-set objectives. Keyword: Social Enterprise, Not-for-proit Organisa- tions, Self-sustainability. political reasons the entire region including Manipur has been experiencing dilemmas from the political, social, as well as economic perspectives. In this situation, the need for not-for-proit organisations like non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil society organisations (CSOs), community-based organisations (CBOs), voluntary associations (VAs) and human rights groups arises. Due to changing circumstances not all, but few applied knowingly or unknowingly innovative ‘social entrepreneurial’ practices and techniques regarding income generation for self sustainability, thereby giving emphasis to genuine needs of the people. Their participatory decision making as well as implementations are all designed for empowering and meeting people’s expectations. Their developmental works/economic related activities help in bringing emotional integrity among various communities that minimize social unrest. They have the potential to raise public and political awareness about government’s political actions in the state. Their activities can maintain constructive pressure on government as well as political leaders to meet their commitments. These not-for-proit organisations in the state can mobilize support among people and key constituencies, and their activities can cover wide ranging issues including social, political and economic as well. By knowing the importance of the sector in this fast changing world, often saying that changes in reality is much faster than our established theory, non-proit or- ganisations must be well equipped in order to meet the changing aspirations of the people. They have to acceler- ate their activities but in reality non-proit organisations could not meet the expectations. They have been expe- riencing dificulties in implementing their original ideas, that are genuine needs felt by the community in practice. These dificulties arises out of the prevailing pattern of Article can be accessed online at http://www.publishingindia.com Submitted on: 28th November 2013 Accepted on: 2nd January 2014