Abstract: Social Entrepreneurship is assumed to be the job of progress specialists in the social area by embracing a strategic make and support social worth, by perceiving and steadily seeking after new chances to serve that crucial, taking part in a procedure of persistent advancement, adjustment and learning, by acting intensely without being constrained by assets at present close by and by displaying elevated responsibility to the voting public served and for the results made. In the process of Social Entrepreneurship, the Entrepreneurs have to face certain problems. The present study is aimed at finding the challenges faced by Social Entrepreneurship in rural Odisha and it was found that there are various challenges which are being faced by the Social Entrepreneurship in rural Odisha such as lack of Infrastructure and innovativeness etc. To cope up with these challenges, various suggestions have been suggested in the study. The research gap of this paper is that there are many literatures on the role of entrepreneurship in rural development but a few are found on social entrepreneurship. The objective of the study is to analyze the barriers of the social entrepreneurship in its application of rural development in Odisha. The data collected from the secondary sources. It is purely a review article.