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Women Entrepreneur is any women who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business. Women Entrepreneurs may be defined as the women or group of women who initiate, organize and co- operate a business enterprise. Government of India has defined women entrepreneurs as an enterprise owned and controlled by a woman having a minimum financial interest of 51 of the capital and giving at least 51 of employment generated in the enterprise to women. Out of total 940.98 million people in India, in the 1990s, females comprise 437.10 million representing 46.5 percent of the total population. There are 126.48 million women workforce but as per the 1991 census, only 1, 85,900 women accounting for only 4.5 per cent of the total self-employed persons in the country were recorded. The study shows that the present institutional support system is inadequate to support the sustainable development of women entrepreneurship in the state.