Book excerpt: Entrepreneurship is one of the critical decisions to be made and it involves number of risk and has its own advantages also. But the charm of being a master of you is always above any other form of work. Setting up a business requires many things. Understanding yourself, understanding market, availing funds are certain basic things that one must mandatorily know before making a business decision. In fact before starting a business also one has to be thorough with the requirements of current line of industry. Above all taking advantage of various schemes provided by government and other financial institutions. Everyone wants to do something that gives them chance to earn more money and it is possible by becoming an entrepreneur. Starting your own business is one of the few remaining paths to wealth. To start you own venture you have to decide on many things. Making a choice of the right project is a difficult decision for an entrepreneur and is an imperative decision. For the reason that rest of the challenges for setting up a business is based on the type of the product and fund to invest. But it is a perception that for owning a business you should have handsome amount of money. Now it is possible with small scale business. The book is an attempt to provide certain basic knowledge for starters. Starting a small scale enterprise requires understanding steps in setting up an SSI, Registration/Licenses for SSI(Small Scale Industry), Resourcing, Technical Know How and so on the book has chapters on the concerned subject for better understanding of a starter. Various Policies and programmes for rural development, Prime Minister Rozgar Yozna, rural women entrepreneurship in India, bright prospects, industrial innovations by small and medium sized enterprises, Indian small industry, organisation, supporting entrepreneurship, development in India etc are also the subject matter of the book. Every chapter has several other sub chapters making the topic clear and better to understand. In the end of the book a directory section is enclosed containing Industries Department addresses, Service Institutes, Branch Institutes, and Extension Centres in various Indian States.