{"id":50801,"date":"2019-08-01T19:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=50801"},"modified":"2019-10-11T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T06:31:42","slug":"7-pm-fighting-forces-that-shackle-dalit-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-fighting-forces-that-shackle-dalit-business\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Fighting forces that shackle Dalit business | 1st August, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> Dalit\nentrepreneur\u2019s opportunities and challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Industrialization and entrepreneurship\ndevelopment have broken the social immobility. The villages, nowadays, are no\nlonger isolated from the rest of the country. Social mobility has increased and\nthe people are migrating to long distance from their homes in search of jobs.<\/li><li>The entrepreneurship is helping not only\na particular person but also the whole society by giving employments,\ngenerating revenue, improving productivity, standard of living of the people.<\/li><li>Dalit Entrepreneurship is an opportunity\nfor the Dalits to participate in national building in larger way. This will\ngive a challenge to unlock the largely unutilized entrepreneurial potential of\nthe Dalits.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Need\nfor and Importance of Dalit Entrepreneurship:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Standard\nof Living of the People:<\/strong> Development of entrepreneurship is very\nvital for economic activities to uplift the poor masses. Developing country\nlike India\u2019s main aim of economic activities is to raise the standard of living\nof the people, particularly the Dalit population.<\/li><li><strong>Modernization\nof Dalit Society:<\/strong> The development of entrepreneurship is\nurgently needed of modernization of Dalit society because the life styles of\nthe present Dalit society have not changed. Therefore, the higher economic\nneeds of this people can be met only by bringing them under the\nentrepreneurship ambit.<\/li><li><strong>Employment\nProvider:<\/strong>\nInstead of looking for jobs now the Dalit can become job providers if they get\nentrepreneurial opportunities.<\/li><li><strong>Impact\nof Globalization:<\/strong> The globalization has reduced job\nopportunities in Government departments and public sectors in India. Many PSUs\nwere either closed or privatized resulting in loss of job opportunities for\nreserved communities in India. At the same time globalization brings a lot of\ndemocratized entrepreneurial opportunities. <\/li><li><strong>Financial\nInclusion:<\/strong>\nThe revolution in financial inclusion in India will lead to its next natural\nprogression i.e. entrepreneurship. The people who enjoyed the financial\ninclusion now are looking for getting into entrepreneurship. A good number of\npeople who have been brought into financial inclusion are Dalits. So it is\nobvious that the financially included Dalits will be graduating into\nentrepreneurs.<\/li><li><strong>Advanced\nTechnologies:<\/strong> Modern IT technologies like internet, mobile, cloud\ncomputing, apps, etc. are throwing unlimited entrepreneurial opportunities to\nall the youth, particularly the Dalit youths. <\/li><li>The IT enabled businesses like\ne-commerce, e-trading, online trading of stocks, etc. are giving innumerable\nopportunities for Dalit entrepreneurship. <\/li><li><strong>Sharing\nEconomy:<\/strong>\nToday the most happening trend is sharing economy. Ola, Uber, etc. are the\nexamples for sharing economy. Under sharing economy one can become an\nentrepreneur without much investment and infrastructure. One needs to have only\nprofessional skills or expertise to become an entrepreneur. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenges\nto Dalit Entrepreneurs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Social Capital:<\/strong> It is generally found that in industries where\nsocial capital (embeddedness) matters more, Dalit businesses have done\nsignificantly worse than non-Dalit businesses. Moreover, the more stigmatized\nthe community was, the worse it performed in more embedded industries.<\/li><li><strong>Resources:<\/strong> Dalit business owners \u2014 due to their historical exclusion\nfrom business-do not have equally resourceful within-community social capital,\ncompared to non-Dalit business owners.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Community networks:<\/strong>\ncommunity networks like pressure groups, public facilities etc., and the\nbenefit Dalit business owners came primarily from the beyond-community networks\nthey built outside of their communities. The benefits from such\nbeyond-community networks to Dalit business owners were not as large as for\nnon-Dalits.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Some strategies that can help Dalit business-owners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><strong>Focus on traditional advantages:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;In absence of access to resourceful social capital, business-owners\nfrom marginalised groups can rely on historical capabilities in their\ntraditional occupations.<\/li><li><em><strong>Strengthen within-community social capital:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;Dalit business-owners over the last few decades have\nbeen strengthening their own within-community social capital by forming\nindustry associations.<\/li><li><em><strong>Perform in less embedded industries:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;Given that Dalit business-owners are disadvantaged in\nindustries where business is highly embedded (where networks matter), Dalits\nmay do better if they strategically position themselves in less embedded\nindustries.<\/li><li><em><strong>Build beyond-community social capital:<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;We also found that Dalit business-owners who took on\napprenticeships (in non-Dalit enterprises) or developed larger beyond-community\nsocial capital partially overcame the historical disadvantages their community\nfaced.<\/li><li><strong>Market\nInnovation or the Opening of New Markets:<\/strong> Concepts like\nfarmers market, door delivery, delivery against order e-commerce, sharing\neconomy, etc. are the market innovations opening new entrepreneurial avenues\nfor Dalit entrepreneurs. So, the Government has to promote these concepts for\nDalit entrepreneurship.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Way\nforward:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The real benefit of Dalit\nEntrepreneurship is the possible change in the way in which Dalits are looked\nat, by themselves and others. Dalit Entrepreneurs need to believe and this\ncould be the gentle push they need<\/li><li>The Era of Robotic work place, the\nDalits want to shift from job seekers to business owners. This shows that\nAffirmative Actions by government and the genuine desire of Dalits to become\nentrepreneurs will boost Dalit Entrepreneurship in India.<\/li><li>The only long-term\nsolution involves policy interventions that create inclusive spaces for\nsocialization for members from historically marginalized groups, which not only\nincludes Dalits but also women.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/opinion\/fighting-forces-that-shackle-dalit-businesses\/article28779870.ece\">https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/opinion\/fighting-forces-that-shackle-dalit-businesses\/article28779870.ece<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Dalit entrepreneur\u2019s opportunities and challenges Industrialization and entrepreneurship development have broken the social immobility. The villages, nowadays, are no longer isolated from the rest of the country. Social mobility has increased and the people are migrating to long distance from their homes in search of jobs. 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