Role of Social Enterprise in Rural India

Over 60 percentage of Indian population is living in rural India, primarily depending on agriculture and small-scale industries for their livelihood and almost half of them living below poverty line working as laborers, small-scale farmers(with irrigable land of below an hectare). Its an inordinate task for any government to provide necessary facilities and social welfare activities to cater these under-served below poverty line population.

Given the state of infrastructure and government priorities, a lion share of government spending is being allocated to infrastructure improvements and social welfare activities that feed the people in need. These efforts are not sufficient enough to cater everyone in need. We often come across the news about suicide deaths, malnourishment among kids and women, hungry and sick kids begging on the streets etc....

In my opinion, the right approach is to emphasize on rural empowerment, providing access to information, educate them on the tools and facilities that they can use to overcome these hurdles and provide a clear path for them to lead better lives rather subsidizing.

There may exist many solutions to help and empower these rural dwellers and their interests will be better served when the entrepreneurs come forward with solutions that help these people in need by offering elegant solutions to these peoples troubles. So far, we have seen great success by micro financiers who provide sensible lending to these rural population providing the most needed capitol for their farming, small-scale industries etc. We have seen a great many successes with these micro financiers in not only empowering the rural population but creating wealth and attractive returns on the investment in their enterprises. They have proven that there is wealth of untapped potential still to be uncovered among these population and unlimited avenues for these social entrepreneurs to explore and succeed with passion and satisfaction.

India needs great many minds and social entrepreneurs to alleviate these troubles and improve standards of living, empower the rural population, providing information and tools to better organize their lives. This is certainly possible with a social entrepreneurship revolution. I urge my fellow indian citizen, lets hold hands and seed and fertilize this moment and uncap the vast hidden potential among our rural India.

Long live humanity, Long live social entrepreneurship.