Paper Title
Women Entrepreneurs: A Study of Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspective in the State of Bihar

Abstract
In the modern world Role of Every Woman are very important without the Women continues growth in every section is not possible. The GDP (GROWTH &DEVELPOEMENT) of women entrepreneurs have accelerated because entrepreneurial development is not possible without the active participation of women. Women have a key role in the economic development of a country. Moreover, Asian women now holds key positions in government as well as in private sector and many have also gone into managing their own business enterprises. In India, women have become aware about their rights and situations and entered in different fields of business. They have established their own successful business empires. They are contributing towards the growth of economy and improvement of their socio-economic conditions. Present study seeks to analyze the socio-economic characteristics, current status (financial status, social status and decision making status) and various challenges faced by the women entrepreneurs in terms of financial problems, marketing problems, manufacturing and labor problems. This study has been conducted on 276 sample respondents in the five districts (PATNA, MUZZFARPUR, MOTIHARI,GAYA ,AARA) of BIHAR. This paper also highlights various aspects of women entrepreneurs, schemes designed and implemented by several financial institutions and state level agencies for development of women entrepreneurship in India Keywords - Women Powerment, Social Role, current Sports Status, socio Economics Characteristics