• Rubina Qadir
• Ayesha Zareef

In the global context the youth have been dedicated as key motivator of small and medium size enterprises (SME’s) because of their creativity, energetic nature for doing something valuable. The rural youth of Pakistan is considered as the important asset of the country because the population of Pakistan mainly lives in rural areas. Rural entrepreneurial uplift plays a central role in the growth of economy in both developing and developed countries. Entrepreneurship along with small and medium size businesses help in creating employment opportunities for the rural youth if they have provided the facilities related to entrepreneurial trainings, communication technology, internet and most importantly the need of finance to inject in their enterprises and small and medium size businesses. Providing the rural youth with the facilities creates interest level in youth to take entrepreneurship as a career. INGOs, NGO’s in rural areas are working to make better living standards and are providing the rural youth with platforms and opportunities to operate in global and international level. The government has launched different SME banks and schemes through which the rural youth can get micro credit loans for their enterprise development. The paper also talks about the significance of small and medium sized business and entrepreneurship in economic development of developing countries. For the purpose of this research the researcher select 150 youth entrepreneurs from Chitral District of KPK province who are engaged in different kinds of small and medium size business and entrepreneurial activities. Total 150 questionnaires were distributed among the youth entrepreneurs and filled by the youth in Chitral District.

Entrepreneurship, rural youth, SMEs, INGOs and NGOs

"Entrepreneural uplift of rural youth of Pakistan, A Case Study on Chitral", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no.d753-d786, November-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRTHE2075.pdf

"Entrepreneural uplift of rural youth of Pakistan, A Case Study on Chitral", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 11, page no. ppd753-d786, November-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRTHE2075.pdf