ICT and Its Role in Women Entrepreneurship With Special Reference to Kudumbashree Group of Malappuram District

Abstract

Starting a new firm is a very important decision to an individual, which has become the focal point in the investigation of entrepreneurship regarding an individual's qualities as an entrepreneur. The Kudumbashree is a project under the state's aegis comprising women's self-help groups (SHGs). KS women leaders seem to be able to enter the panchayats more readily and thus form an important section of lower-level leaders of the state's political parties. The main objective of this chapter is to understand the role of ICT for Kudumbashree group in the economic upliftment of women the factors for it being education, work, financial ability, collective action, social relationships, and unpaid care and work burden. The Purpose of this study is to know how ICT helps in achieving economic upliftment by the most successful women's self-help group: Kudumbashree.