The poverty eradication is the biggest challenge to attain the objectives of inclusive growth in India. Poverty is a socio-economic phenomenon that is intimately allied to inequality, poor lifestyle, deprivation, malnourishment, illiteracy and low human resource development. It adversely affects physical well-being, psychology, efficiency and productivity as well disturbs their economic status. No country can claim economic growth when sections of the people are marginalized. India is home to 22 percent of the world’s poor. Reduction of poverty in India, is, therefore, vital for the attainment of MDGs and SDGs. The poor’s entrepreneurship, a participatory transition through selfemployment, is readily recognized as a means of circumventing existing power structures, embedded gender inequalities and gaining agency through improved financial status, which can be possible through the state livelihood development program interventions like Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), particularly in the north-eastern region of India. Therefore, present research paper aims to study the performance of PMEGP in the study area in terms of its impact in developing the entrepreneurship and in turn, socio-economic growth of the beneficiaries in those regions.
