Borah, SayanikaMudoi, Dhruba Jyoti2022-07-132022-07-132019-07https://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810185422Self Help Groups are considered as one of the most significant tools to adopt participatory approach for social and economic empowerment of women. Now it has been realized that sustainability of Self Help Group is possible through inoculation of the entrepreneurial behaviour and qualities among the members of SHG. Keeping this in view, the present study is entitled as “Entrepreneurial behaviour of member of Self Help Groups of Jorhat district of Assam” was taken with objectives ( i ) To study the background profile of the members of Self Help Groups of Jorhat district of Assam. ( ii ) To find out the extent of participation of the members of Self Help Groups in selected entrepreneurial activities. ( iii ) To explore the entrepreneurial behaviour of the members of selected Self Help Groups of Jorhat district of Assam. The study was carried out in the state of Assam which is situated in the north east part of India. A purposive cum random sampling design was followed for the present study .Jorhat district was purposively selected for the present study. Blocks were selected from National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) initiative blocks. NRLM has clustered all blocks of Jorhat district into 6 blocks. Out of the 6 blocks , 4 blocks were selected purposively. A list of SHG from each selected blocks who had continuously functioning for the last 10 years and engaged in some entrepreneurial activities were prepared. From the list four SHG favourable were selected by using simple random sampling method. Thus all total 16 Self Help Groups were selected for the present study. After selection of the SHG, 10 members from each SHG were selected using simple random sampling for the study. Thus a total of 160 respondents were taken as a sample for the study The findings revealed that a majority of the respondents belonged to the young aged category who were mostly married and had education up to high school level. Most of them belonged to nuclear family with small family size and having marginal land holdings with cultivation as the main occupation of the family. Most of the respondents had medium income level and were member of one organization. A high percentage ( 62.50 % ) of the members depended on Gramin Vikash Bank for their financial support in the entrepreneurial activities of the SHG’s. From the study, it was observed that majority ( 48.00 % ) of the respondents had medium level of participation in terms of selected entrepreneurial activities in managerial and marketing activities. In terms of entrepreneurial behaviour, a majority ( 71.00 % ) of the respondents had medium level of entrepreneurial behaviour and out of all the behaviour, management orientation seen as the common behaviour and therefore was given Rank I ( 48.8 ) .EnglishThesis