The aim of social entrepreneurship is business for a social cause. It is a combination of social service and entrepreneurship. The concept of social entrepreneurship came in to force in the academic world of late 1990s in united states. It has a mission of solving social problems. Social entrepreneurship is successful in terms of not the large profits, but in the immeasurable social impacts. There are more benefits from social entrepreneurship for removal of poverty, solution for unemployment, development of agriculture sector and positively impact on society. It is one of the concepts of philanthropy, includes innovativeness in treating social problems and innovating entrepreneurial practice are the main characteristics of social entrepreneurship. In this scenario social entrepreneurship has been receiving greater recognition from the public (S.Bacq and F.Janseen 2011). Social entrepreneurship focuses on long term capacity rather than short-term financial gains and has an explicit and social mission, whereas commercial ventures has a mission of profit. This paper explains how the people perceives the concept of social entrepreneurship.