Volume : 3, Issue : 6, June - 2014

Informal Credit System Through Social Entrepreneurs in Tiruchirappalli District, Tamil Nadu

Dr. C. Paramasivan, T. Kannan

Abstract :

As a group of registered social entrepreneurs having homogenous social and economic backgrounds, voluntarily coming together to save regular small sums of money, mutually agreeing to contribute to a common fund and to meet their emergency needs tackles social issues such as reduction in poverty, unemployment and facilitating social entrepreneurship. To contribute positively to the sustainability of the SHG is a multi–pronged approach has been taken in with the NGOs movement, placing a focus on saving and other interventions of social empowerment, education and health are differentiate it from the strictly microfinance model. This paper is part of a research study undertaken by the social entrepreneurship in Tiruchirappalli district in Tamilnadu.