It is known that in the past two decades, the social entrepreneurship has developed exponentially as it has been widely recognized for its capacity to solve the pressing problems of humanity (Akash & Boopathy, 2018). Being a new business model, its implementation is not without obstacles. Social entrepreneurs face multi – dimensional challenges and hardships during the entire life cycle of their social organizations (Bhatt.et.al.2019). As the growth of social entrepreneurship has an immense impact on the Indian society, the obstacles hindering its development has to be empirically investigated so as to guide the practitioners to tide over their difficulties and succeed in their endeavors. The present article is me such attempt in this direction to identify and analyse the obstacles of the field in the state of Tamil Nadu, with a special focus on its ‘Sectors’.