Micro- Financing Through Self Help Groups Panacea for the Woman Empowerment: An Empirical Evaluation

  Mridula Sharda,  Hari Priya

Group is very natural response of the human behavior: they live interacting with each other. Self Help Groups (SHGs) have become the most popular form of the group’s work those are being used by both Governmental and Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs). Self-Help Group (SHG) is a voluntary association of the people belonging to similar socio-economic characteristics, residing in the same locality and play vital role as such. They come together for the purpose of solving their common problems through self-help and mutual help. This Research Paper is an effort to explore the impact of SHGs on the socio-economic and political life in rural areas with special reference to PRIs as rural power system. Question addressed through this empirical work is whether the micro- financing is effective measure in the journey of women empowerment or not. Hypothesis for the study based on review of literature is economic deprivation ad poor community exposer is responsible for dismal position of the women in rural society. Self Help Groups are elementary Institutions of the women participation in the decision making bodies. Study’s main focus was to analyses the co-relation between women economic emancipation through SHGs to the political empowerment in the rural area. On the basis of the field study inferences are drawn: Women participation in SHGs is an effective measure for the women empowerment. The triumph of SHGs is a remarkable achievement of the women empowerment. Center and state legislatures have been making constant efforts for the welfare of the women. It also examines the actual position of SHGs members in the PRIs and how they (members of self Help group) perform their social and political activities in Panchayati raj institutions.

Keywords- Self Help Groups, Empowerment, Panchayati Raj institutions(PRIs).

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR2004052
Page Number(s) - 345-351
Pubished in - Volume 8 | Issue 4 | December 2020
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Mridula Sharda,  Hari Priya,   "Micro- Financing Through Self Help Groups Panacea for the Woman Empowerment: An Empirical Evaluation", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.8, Issue 4, pp.345-351, December 2020, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR2004052.pdf