© DEC 2019 | IRE Journals | Volume 3 Issue 6 | ISSN: 2456-8880 IRE 1701843 ICONIC RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING JOURNALS 142 A Study on Entrepreneurial Aptitudes, Among Women Entrepreneurs of Micro Finance Beneficiaries in India TOOPALLI SIRISHA 1 , DR. V. RAMANTHAN 2 1 Research Scholar, SCSVMV, Kanchipuram, Enathur, Tamilnadu 2 Associate Professor, SCSVMV, Kanchipuram, Enathur, Tamilnadu Abstract- The future of the any country now and then is dictated and directed by entrepreneurs. Today entrepreneurship is the buzzword across the globe, especially for the countries which are competing to be the super powers. India’s ambition to be the super power can also be materialized through promoting entrepreneurship across all the regions. Entrepreneurship on small scale is the only solution to the problems of unemployment and proper utilization of both human and non-human resources and improving the living conditions of the poor masses with the help of micro finance. Micro finance plays a vital role in development of entrepreneurs especially in Industrially Backward Districts like an Anthapur. This study has been done at District Rural Development Agency, seeks to find out the Entrepreneurial Traits among micro finance beneficiaries at Tadipatri area of Anantapur District and around its Mandals like Yadiki, Peddapappuru, Yellanuru, Puttuluru. The data collection method used for the study is direct personnel investigation, indirect personnel investigation, Questionnaire method. Secondary data collected from the District Rural Development Agency records and documents. The main objective of the study is to find out entrepreneurial traits among DRDA beneficiaries. The statistical tools applied for the study is correlation technique and average method. Indexed Terms- Entrepreneurship, Micro Finance. Entrepreneurial Aptitudes, Traits, Women Entrepreneurs I. INTRODUCTION The arrival of “two million” new entrepreneurs every year across the globe indicates the importance of entrepreneurship in the present era of liberalization, globalization and privatization. Entrepreneurs not only provide goods and services to the society but also generate employment. At the outset entrepreneurs are wealth creators. The future of the any country now and then is dictated and directed by entrepreneurs. No economy can be imagined without entrepreneurship. Today entrepreneurship is the buzzword across the globe, especially for the countries which are competing to be the super powers. India’s ambition to be the super power by the 2020 can also be materialized through promoting entrepreneurship across all the regions. The status of women in India has been subject to great many changes over the past few millennia. The history of women in India has been eventful. But even today Indian women have a status that is mostly subordinate to men, from birth to work to even death. The women enjoyed equal status with men in all fields of life. Even though we strongly believe that the entrepreneurial success strategies are not different for women or men and we believe that women do have traits that help them in starting and running a business. After all, most successful entrepreneurs have a few things in common such as courage, vision, intuition and persistence. Over the last two decades total employment growth has been much more pronounced for women than for men. Self- employment has been increasing steadily for both women and men. Among women, the rise in the number of employers has been far stronger than the rise in own-account workers among men. Thus, while on average both self-employed women and men are older than their paid worker counterparts, the age differential is greater for men than for women. The most powerful advantage that women have is the development of our “intuition muscle”. And this is the most important skill for many successful entrepreneurs – following gut instinct. The women have got an idea, nobody