WOMEN EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SHELF HELP GROUP IN BODO TRIBE, ASSAM

2014

Empowerment of women is one of the vital issues of development. The awareness on gender issues is though increasing achievement of the goals will not be possible without closing the gaps between women and men in terms of capacities, access to resources and opportunities. Since 1970s, the idea and practice of self help has developed worldwide as a major social phenomenon for poverty alleviation and women empowerment. It has been widely acknowledged in development literature that SHGs is one of the means to empower women by providing easy access to credits. This paper tries to look at how SHGs contribute to the process of socio-economic empowerment of women. It reveals that SHGs lead to personal empowerment in terms of creating awareness on social issues and access to savings but unsuccessful to transform the endeavor into entrepreneurial or skill oriented income generation programme and mobilising members for community development issues.

Asian Journal of Home Science, 2013

Women face gender specific barriers to access education, health, and empowerment etc. The study addresses women empowerment through self-help groups in Gajapati district of Odisha. Three of the tribal blocks i.e . Nuagada, Rayagada, R.Udayagiri consisting of 150 SHG members among tribal farming community were selected for the study. The information related to the study was collected using a welldefined and pre-tested questionnaire by the personal interview method. The mean age of respondents was 33 years and among them 45.33 per cent were functionally literates. Regarding mean income of the respondents, 53.33 per cent of the total respondents were in semi-medium group and only 10.00 per cent of the total respondents were in high income group. In general, the background information informed that the women of the sample area were economically poor and their status was low and down trodden. The profit utilization pattern was found to be statistically significant (Pi.e. meeting necessit...

Journal of Krishi Vigyan, 2020

Economic independence is one of the means to empower the women. Enhancing women’s economic productivity is an important strategy for improving the welfare of 60 million Indian households living below the poverty line. Self help groups (SHG) are small informal associations created for the purpose of enabling members to reap economic benefit out of mutual help, solidarity, and joint responsibility. The benefits include mobilisation of savings and credit facilities and pursuit of group enterprise activities. The group-based approach not only enables the poor to accumulate capital by way of small savings but also helps them to get access to formal credit facilities. The overall objective of the present study was to analysis the economic empowerment of women though SHGs in ten villages of Amreli District of Gujarat State. Totally 180 respondents were selected from the ten villages by using simple random sampling method and 9 SHG and 9 Non SHG members were selected from the same villages for comparative study. The result revealed that the independent sample ‘Z’ test showed that there was highly significant difference in the mean values of SHG members and Non SHG members in case of components of economic empowerment of women like saving and investment, self sufficiency, knowledge about banking system and skill development. Key Words: Economic empowerment, Self Help Groups, Women, SHG and Non SHG members

IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 2013

The aim of this study is to evaluate the women's SHGs under IFAD support in Ukhrul District, the North Eastern Region of Manipur State, India. SHGs in 10 villages of the study area were selected for the study purposively. Data collection methods included survey and analysis of Status Report (UDCRMS/IFAD). The technique used was personal interview with SHG leaders, representatives, and key IFAD staff. The tools comprised an interview schedule. A focus group discussion was also held with the SHGs members at the village level. The results revealed that though the SHGs confounded by many regional complexities, there is a better and faster spread in its growth and development. In the context of Ukhrul District's traditional institution, women do not have much say in decision making and credit is considered as man's domain. However, this position is slowly reversing by means of building the confidence of the individual members through forming SHGs.

2019

United Nations (UN) defines empowerment the processes by which women take control and ownership of their lives through the expansion of their choice. It is the process of acquiring the ability to make strategic life choice in a context where this ability has previously been denied. Empowerment can take place at a hierarchy of different levelsindividual, household, community and societal and is facilitated by providing encouraging factors, etc. In India despite the sixdecades of planned economic development women empowerment is quite negligible and discouraging. Women constitute 50 percent population in India. Majority of them depends on men for their livelihood and continue to be voiceless section and economic value do not attach to the women. However, of late, Indian women have come out of the four walls of the kitchen and shown their willingness to take up entrepreneurial activities. Women of today want more economic freedom. Further, many women have proved that they are more effi...

The paper focusess different dimension of women empowerment. Strategies adopted to reach empowerment. The participation of women in income generating activities for the family has been increasing over time. Female work participations not only increase their family income but also bring economic independence among women in the households. 58.2% of women are at the age of above 35 years and 61% are illiterates. 44.6% women are engaged in agriculture as labourer. 52% of SGHs women are earning Rs. 20000 to Rs.25000 per annum. 42% women aquired domestic appliances like radio/ TV and 34% of the members have access to safe cooking fuels (LPG) under the Government promoted scheme. 98% of eligible members adopt small family norms. All children of SHG members are able to access immunization services against the 6 diseases. The main objectives of this paper are to study the socio-economic background of the sample women respondent in the study area, to examine the income, expenditure and savings pattern of the women members after joining Self Help Groups (SHGs), to study the various innovative strategies of women for economic development. The conclusion of the paper is that women SHGs adopted innovative strategies and plays an important role in involving the rural women in self-employment and eradicating poverty among the rural masses.

International Journal of Applied Home Science, 2024

This study investigates the role of Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in fostering economic empowerment and facilitating decision-making processes among women in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, focusing on Rudraprayag and Chamoli districts. For the present study Stratified Random Sampling has been used and total 150 women were selected, out of which respectively 75 women taken from Chamoli District and 75 women taken from Rudraprayag District. Through a comparative analysis, it aims to understand the differences and similarities in their Income, Socio-Economic profile, and Decision-Making capacity of women who are engaged in SHGs. The research employs qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviews and surveys to gather data on the socio-economic status and decision-making dynamics of SHG members. This study contributes to the understanding of how SHGs empower women economically by examining the women income and Decision-Making Participation after joining the SHG.

Abstract: Micro-finance interventions are well recognized world over as an effective tool for poverty alleviation and improving socio-economic conditions of rural poor. In India too, micro-finance is making headway in its effort for reducing poverty and empowering rural poor and particularly women. Micro-finance through the network of co-operatives, commercial banks, regional rural banks, NABARD and NGOs has been largely supply driven and recent approach. The recent studies also highlight that self help group based micro finance in India has long lasting social impacts on poor and particularly women rather than economic impacts as assumed earlier. The analysis of micro-credit programmes on women empowerment simply demonstrate that government’s policies for empowering women articulate focus on forward and backward linkages to make them economically independent and self-reliant. Present paper attempts to assess the role of SHGs in women empowerment in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.

Isara solutions, 2023

This paper studies the role of Self-Help Groups in empowerment of women, both economically and socially by using primary data taken from 6 village that comes under Ramgarh district of Jharkhand. Self-Help Groups plays a crucial role in poverty alleviation, social awareness and in bringing gender inequality. Self-Help Groups (SHGs) is an innovative kind of financial intermediation used in India today. This paper focuses on the impact of Self-Help Groups on scheduled caste women in those areas. The Scheduled Castes are a marginalised population that was kept out of mainstream society, endured stigma and prejudice, and lived in poverty. Scheduled caste women have always been oppressed by the society and their own families. The researcher has used both primary and secondary data to obtain the desired information. In this paper researcher has used descriptive method and for survey random sampling method has been used. The collected data is analysed through chi square test. The researcher learned from this study that Self-Help Groups have a significant influence on the lives of scheduled caste women and their social and economic empowerment. They have access to a microcredit facility through Self-Help Groups to assist their social and personal needs.

2019

Self help group (SHG) is the tool to alleviate poverty in a fast developing nation like India. Different initiatives of SHG like small scale business ventures, microfinance initiatives is gaining tremendous amount of popularity because of their incredible positive effect on women empowerment. The objective of this paper: To review and existing literature on topic of Self Help Group (SHG) and microfinance in India and to analyse impact of SHG on women upliftment and empowerment in parayakadavu village of kollam district in Kerala. For this investigation primary data is collected. Primary data constitutes of hundred women respondents, who was selected out of 20 SHG operating in parayakadavu village.Data was collected in February, 2019.Findings showed that there is tremendous impact on women empowerment in parayakadavu village through SHG in terms of increase in saving habits, decision making skills,