Inclusion Of The Exclusion: Glimpse From Stand-Up India Scheme

Abstract

The Stand Up India initiative primarily targets specific marginalised groups in India, aiming to promote entrepreneurship and economic empowerment. Accordingly, the present endeavour focused on exploring the opportunities/ benefits provided by Stand Up India Schemes to its SC, ST and Women Beneficiaries. A descriptive research design has been used in the current study. A structured questionnaire was designed via expert opinions and literature review to know the benefits/ opportunities provided by the scheme to its beneficiaries who were residents of the six administrative regions of Haryana—Ambala, Rohtak, Gurgaon, Hisar, Karnal, and Faridabad. The study takes into account 420 respondents. Primary data were collected from January 2023 to March 2023. The data has been collected using quota and purposive sampling techniques. Factor analysis has been employed to analyse the collected data. The findings of the research revealed the benefits/ opportunities provided by the stand-up India schemes to marginalized sections of the society namely, economic benefits, social benefits, political and psychological benefits. Further, it indicates that the most significant benefit is economic and the least contributing benefit is psychological.