Impact Study of Women Empowerment through Self-Help Groups - A Study of Haryana

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minaxi Setia ◽  
Manvinder Singh Tandon ◽  
, Brijpal

Women empowerment is emerging as a key challenge for all the communities of a country specially India. In a number of countries, women have to struggle for their rights and living values. To beat such issues various steps have been taken by private, public and non-governmental organizations. A Self Help Group is one of these steps, which is radically contributing in the way of women empowerment. Self Help Groups give opportunities to the poor women to manage their lives through savings along with running small-scale businesses. Numerous studies have been conducted and results show that the Self Help Group is crucial for rural finance services and is also helpful in enhancing work opportunities. The present study is based on quantitative impact analysis of SHGs of Hisar district, state Haryana, India. Data has been collected and analyzed through questionnaires and that was moreover an interview. Target for the respondents were women living in this district who had joined SHGs. Descriptive statistics of this study show the significance of the SHGs in the way of improvement of women’s socio-economic conditions in the district.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indranil Bose ◽  
Vishwas Gupta ◽  
Atul Kumar Srivastava

Micro-finance refers to small savings, credit and insurance services. These services are extended to socially and economically disadvantaged segments of society. The women artisans from Shantiniketan leather cluster, who have a long tradition of manufacturing leather bags and other accessories, have changed their lives and their socio-living condition in many aspects, by adopting the ways of self-help group formation under different coordinating agencies (specially the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) since 1992). These self-help groups have been extended soft loans of various natures; through the respective coordinating agencies. These initiatives have added different and new positive dimensions in respect to the lives of members of such groups. This structured and questionnaire based feedback empirical study, attempts to evaluate the level of positive changes that occurred in the lives of under-privileged rural women artisans, engaged in leather craftsmanship under several self-help groups, coordinated by different NGOs at the grass-root level.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Lakshmi R ◽  
Vadivalagan G

Women empowerment is a process in which women challenge the existing norms and culture, to effectively promote their well being. The participation of women in Self Help Groups (SHGs) made a significant impact on their empowerment both in social and economical aspects This study addresses women empowerment through self help groups in Dharmapuri district of Tamilnadu . The information required for the study has been collected from both the primary and secondary sources A multistage random sampling method has been followed. Average and percentage analysis was carried out to draw meaningful interpretation of the results. Garret ranking technique was used to find the reasons for joining the Self help group. Factor analysis was used to measure thedetermine the relationship between the observed variables The results of the study revealed that the SHGs have had greater impact on both economic and social aspects of the beneficiaries.


2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Kavitha S ◽  
P Laxmana

For the Empowerment of women, government has come up with many schemes. Among those, Self Help Group (SHG) is found to be the strongest route. The purpose of the Programme is to endow women economically and socially by bringing them in self-help groups, and it spent corers of rupees at a time in the project taken up for the development of  women and organizing women empowerment in such huge number.


Author(s):  
Rema Das

Empowerment is an abstract, multi- dimensional and multi-level concept that can be both a process and outcome. It can be defined as the process of increasing the assets and capabilities of individuals or groups to make purposive choices and to transform those choices into desired actions and outcomes. A Self Help Group (SHG) is a small economically homogenous affinity group of 10 to 20 persons who come together to save small amounts regularly, mutually agree to contribute to a common fund, have collective decision making, or resolve conflicts through collective leadership and mutual discussion. The present study was undertaken in Cooch Behar district of West Bengal,


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Joey Joey Henriques

Self Help Groups have emerged as an important mechanism to bring about socio-economic change in society. Various studies indicate the positive impact that SHGs have had on employment generation, savings, incomes, poverty alleviation and women empowerment. The present study, based on primary data sourced from women members of SHGs located in the state of Goa is an attempt to understand the impact of group membership on its members, particularly women. An attempt has also been made to throw light on the pivotal role that the Self Help Group Promoting Agencies essay in realising the goal of women empowerment. The study also analyses the independence that women exhibit in taking decisions, be it in the economic or political domain.


The major problem of unemployment has brought into focus the importance of small scale, agro and rural industries as well as the development of entrepreneurship in the related fields. Women in our country are playing an equally important role through development of their resource-fullness and their skills. Entrepreneurial skill of women shows the way for the empowerment of women and social justice. It facilitates the women to become economic independence, self reliance, political, social and legal awareness, self-confidence and positive attitude among the women community. The main aim of this study is to identify the general profile of Self Help Groups in Tirunelveli district and analyze the level of imperative entrepreneurial skills of members in Self Help Groups. For this, the opinion of Animators has collected from each Self Help Group towards the entrepreneurial skills of members acquired through the Group. This study shows the fact that the self confidence level and leadership quality level of members have increased after joining SHGs


Author(s):  
Dr. V. Sangeetha

This study examines the women empowerment of self help groups in Thoothukudi district. It aims to analyze the demographic profile of the respondents and characteristics of the Self Help Group members and to evaluate the impact of service quality of SHGs. The data collected from 125 respondents selected using random sampling method covering the villages of Ottapidaram, Pudur, Vilathikulam and Kayathar. It concluded that the economic activities of SHGs are quite successful. In this way, SHGs in four blocks from Thoothukudi District were very successful in women empowerment in rural areas and poverty alleviation.


Author(s):  
Polee Saikia

<div><p><em>Women empowerment is a universal issue. Women empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. It refers to increasing and improving the social, economic, political and legal strength of the women, to ensure equal right to women and to make them confident enough to claim their rights. The overall development of the nation remains as a paradox until and unless the women got empowered. The under privileged rural women are still far from empowerment. Unemployment, illiteracy and low social recognition made them so. Presently the self-help groups that mushrooming in different corners of rural Assam have been creating opportunities for women to be empowered. Here in this study an attempt has been made to study whether the rural women got scope to get empowered by getting engagement in self-help groups. 40 women from 04 self-help groups, 13 literate and 27 illiterate women were taken as sample for the study. To collect first hand data self structured questionnaire and self structured interview schedule were prepared by the investigators. Percentage was used to analyze data.</em></p></div>


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
T Karthika

Self Help Groups are small voluntary associations of rural people, preferably womenfolk from the same socioeconomic background. They come together to solve common problems.The empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (SHGs) would lead to benefits not only to the individual women but also for the family and community as a whole through collective action for development. This paper is an attempt to analyze the women empowerment through self-help group. A simple random sampling technique is used to collect data. Both primary and secondary data were used. Fifty self-help group members’samples were collected through a structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed through statistical tools such as a percentage. This study concludes that the economic activities of the Self Help Group are quite successful. In this way Self Help Group in Sankarankovil Taluk Velappanadaroor area the very successful develop women empowerment and rural areas.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 304-309
Author(s):  
Shristy Poddar ◽  
Sumit Bharti ◽  
Kavitha S Sharma

The dynamic development of the microfinance business has been advanced by market powers as well as by cognizant activities of national governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and the benefactors who view microfinance as a successful device for killing neediness. The incredible push behind this immense and expanding support for microfinance showed that national monetary and social effects are noteworthy and it should be analysed all the more intently.   Self Help Group (SHG) provides microfinance services for people in rural regions so they can use the capital for small business, productive work and become financially stable and independent. In this article, we have described the impact of microfinance on poverty alleviation its impacts on people and society. Here we have explained, the main purpose of this article is to present Microfinance and how it can be useful for poor people and the reduction of unemployment.


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