MRS. VIDYA SUBHASH SANAP A CATAYST IN SOCIO ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION IN THE HINTERLAND OF RURAL INDIA – A CASE STUDY.

The paper brings out a classic case of Mrs. Vidya Subhash Sanap, a war widow of Kagril Martyr. She has channelized the benefits that were from government in setting up 3 businesses successfully in a staged manned ^[1]. It also gives an insight into how financial literacy and planned method of working can solve the problem of uneducated/ less educated rural unemployed youth and make them employable in their own farm lands. Her ability to take financial decisions in all her 3 businesses is directly generating employment for 35 youth and indirectly 25000 + household are getting benefitted ^[4]. The initial training and learning were a challenge for an uneducated widow of 22 yrs., today she is a regular tax payer and is as conversant as any other CA would be. The paper bring out the ground based research, of challenges in her journey from widowhood to being an established business women in a patriarchal society within rural India in Beed District of Maharashtra. Economic independence to women is next to impossible in villages in this part of the country. The commitment of Armed Forces to support the soldier upto the last mile in the battlefield and the Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare supports the War Widow in her hometown is evidently the most transparent system that exists today in India. Thus giving fruitful result to the nation in changing the socio economic condition of dwellers in the remote unreachable corners of the country through collaborative development as in this case i. e Indane Gas by generating financial literacy and awareness of budget planning where War Widows like Mrs. Vidya can flourish and benefit the society around and nation as a whole.