Entrepreneur is an individual who initiates something new, open new venture, earn profit, and bring change in market economy by finding a new source of raw material, new market, introducing new method of production. Entrepreneur is a risk taker who starts business with minimal requirement and enlarges his venture gradually depending on available opportunities of government.  Unemployed youth, irrespective of rural and urban always search new area to do something by own capacity for socio-economic development. Basically rural entrepreneur are not able to avail all government facilities and deprived from such opportunities resulting a low level of income affecting social and economic status.  Since independence various Government agencies have been supporting and promoting the rural and urban entrepreneurs through schemes. Government agencies play pivotal role in entrepreneurship development. The agencies have been initiating so many steps like training, awareness, loan distribution, capacity building, and marketing for the development of entrepreneurship.  The focus of the study is to find out ongoing schemes of government agencies for rural entrepreneurship development in Tripura. The study finds that, even introduction of multiple schemes for entrepreneurship development no significant changes occurred in the social and economic life of the rural entrepreneurs in the region.

KEY WORDS: Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Rural entrepreneurship, Schemes.