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• Creates a need for education and awareness for entrepreneurship.
              Let us study about some common entrepreneurship activities related to the society.


              Social Entrepreneurship
              Social entrepreneurship means doing business in a creative manner to help in the social development of the
              society. Social entrepreneurship deals with environmental and social issues. They put efforts and take risks to bring
              positive changes in society. Some of the problems taken care by social entrepreneurs are poor quality education
              for underprivilege, health and sanitation, unemployment, child labour etc.

              Some of the well-known social entrepreneurs are:



                                         • Urvashi Sahni: She is the founder and CEO of SHEF (Study Hall Education Foundation),
                                        an organization dedicated to offering education to the most underpriviliged girls in
                                        India.


                   Urvashi Sahni

                 • Harish Hande: He is the CEO & Founder of Selco, a company rendering sustainable
                energy sources to rural regions of the country. This project was the first rural solar
                financing program in India.
                                                                                                       Harish Hande
              Agricultural Entrepreneurship
              Agricultural entrepreneurship  means doing business in a creative manner that deals with production and marketing
              of different agricultural products. This has brought the development of remote areas and also has helped the
              farmers by providing low-cost innovations in farming processes. Tree farming, dairy farming, meat packing, food
              delivery, and herb growing are some of the examples of entrepreneurship ventures in agriculture.
              Some of the well-known agricultural entrepreneurs are:



                                          •  Pramod Gautam: A former automobile engineer who switched to farming in 2006,
                                         now gets a yearly turnover of over 1 Crore after implementing a radically different
                                         method of cultivation. Pramod sells the processed and unpolished pulses under the
                                         brand name of ‘Vandana’.



                 Pramod Gautam

                 • Rajiv Bittu:  Rajiv  is  a  part-time  Chartered  Accountant  and  a  full-time  farmer.  And
                according to him, he earns more from farming than his chartered accountancy firm.
                According to Rajiv drip irrigation is the best way to reduce water wastage and labour
                cost, while mulching is nothing but a thin layer of plastic in which holes are made to put
                the seeds. This restores the sun rays for a long time and retains humidity of the soil. It
                also restricts the growth of weeds around the main crop.
                                                                                                        Rajiv Bittu
              Women Entrepreneurship

              Women entrepreneurship means women are turned into entrepreneurs by initiating, organising and setting up
              production and marketing of the products. Women initially joined the business world with innovative ideas to start

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