scholarly journals Capacity Building in Rural Women through Formation and Strengthening of Self Help Groups in Cooch Behar District of West Bengal

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (05) ◽  
pp. 794-799
Author(s):  
Soma Biswas ◽  
D.C. Roy ◽  
A. Saha ◽  
C.P. Ghosh ◽  
M.C. Pakhira
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups

Women’s Collectives and State-Led Development in West Bengal: Reimagining Selves During Counterinsurgency

2020 ◽  
pp. 097317412096535
Author(s):  
Lipika Kamra
Keyword(s):  
Rural Women ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Self Help Groups

This article examines the micropolitics of state-directed women’s collectives in India called self-help groups. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a setting where development becomes a means of counterinsurgency for the state, it looks at how rural women in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal use these collectives to negotiate with the state and make claims on state actors. The article argues that rural women aspire to new individual selves through their membership of SHG collectives. Women reimagined their selfhoods through their access to the state-sponsored public sphere and building new roles for themselves within it. The argument is presented in conversation with research on self-help groups and microfinance initiatives for rural women, and it builds on work that examines the unintended consequences of such development interventions for women’s lives.

Occupational Diversification as Livelihood Strategy Among the Agricultural Labour Households of West Bengal, India

2021 ◽  
pp. 0258042X2110261
Author(s):  
Amit Kundu ◽  
Sangita Das
Keyword(s):  
West Bengal ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Marginal Farmer ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Adult Member ◽  
Female Member

It is now difficult for an agricultural-labour household to get employment as agricultural labourers throughout the year. So, this type of household for survival purposes has to depend on diversified occupations when sometimes only the household head participates and sometimes more than one able-bodied household member participate. Based on a village-level field investigation in West Bengal, the article explores that possibility to keep an agricultural labour household above the poverty line will be more effective if more than one adult member participates in different types of occupations throughout the year. Except this, other possible determinants which can play an effective role to keep an agricultural-labour household above the poverty line are higher operational land among the marginal farmer household who are also working as hired agricultural labour in others’ land and accessibility of microcredit for income-generating activity for the female member(s) of a household from self-help groups (SHGs).

scholarly journals Transformation of Women Status through Self- Help Groups in Pudukkottai Block

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. N. Rameshkumar
Keyword(s):  
Rural Area ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Economic Empowerment ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Active Process ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Productive Activities ◽  
Traditional Work ◽  
Self Help Groups

The rural area peoples are mostly suffered of human life style because it is based on the reason of economic. The present study focused area of psychological, social and economic empowerment of women in Pudukkottai block specified rural area of Perungalur, Athanakottai, Varapur, Mullur and Vadavalam. It is; therefore, women need special attention to ensure their development and active participation in the decision-making process at home. It is also widely recognized that apart from managing household, bearing children, rural women bring income with productive activities ranging from traditional work in the fields to working in factories or running small and petty businesses. They have also proven that they can be better entrepreneurs and development managers in any kind of human development activities. The empowerment of women also considered as an active process enabling women to realize their full identity and power in all spheres of life. The empowerment of women is modified in our life with help of Self Help Groups in Pudukkottai area.

Exploring Dimension, Perceived Individual Tension and Capacity Building Measure of Women Empowerment in India

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 111-131
Author(s):  
K. Gayathri Reddy ◽  
Varsha P.S ◽  
L.N Sudheendra Rao ◽  
Amit Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Legal Technology ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Group Member

The objective of current study is to identify different dimensions of women empowerment, problems and challenges such as perceived tension of individual self -help group member in the process of women empowerment, and suggestions to improve women empowerment in the context of India. The 351 responses were collected via stratified random sampling from members of self -help groups, and an exploratory principal component analysis is undertaken to identify the number of components that underlie the women empowerment. Further, a confirmatory factor analysis is used to confirm the factors in the study. The findings indicate five broad dimensions (i.e. economic, political, social, legal, psychological), four different types of perceived individual tensions (i.e., economic, social, legal, technology-oriented learning), and four significant categories of capacity building measures (i.e. training on governance, technology-driven livelihood support, promoting networking, social justice & harmony) of women empowerment.

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