Awareness Among College Students on Government Schemes for Entrepreneurship Development in Bangalore

Many studies have been done for Entrepreneurial development but only few have done the research on awareness on Government schemes to develop the Entrepreneurship. If the Students gets awareness it will help them to start a business with their team or individually. By creating the awareness we can give more employment opportunity and also it will help to develop our economy by offering more products and services from different entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship will help to reduce the poverty and also it will help to provide more employment opportunity. An attempt is made in this paper to measure the level of awareness about the Government schemes to help the students to start their own business. The data was collected with the help of structured questionnaire from 168 College students at Bangalore district. Descriptive Statistics, weighted average rank and correlation was used to analyses data. The term ‘Entrepreneurship’ irrespective of gender difference where Commerce students seemed to be more aware than students in another stream. The respondents are unaware about the legal formalities for starts ups and entrepreneurial supporting schemes of Government.