Abstract: Social entrepreneurship plays a key role in fostering economic growth and development, particularly in underdeveloped nations. The objective of social entrepreneurship is to identify a societal concern and use entrepreneurial principles to strategize, initiate, and oversee a social enterprise that will facilitate the intended societal transformation. The majority of prior investigations about this subject were conducted on a national scale. This study focus on rural level analysis within the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh, the sole state in India where 89.96 percent of the population resides in rural areas. The objectives of this research are to investigate the impact of social entrepreneurship on rural development and to assess the cooperative society's role in fostering social entrepreneurship in Himachal Pradesh........
Key Word: Social Entrepreneurship, CD Cooperative Credit Society, Rural Development.
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