scholarly journals Women Empowerment through Self-help Groups (SHGs): Cases from Telangana State

Author(s):  
Shankar Chatterjee

<div><p><em>This article is based on field study carried out in June 2016 in Nizamabad District of Telangana where it was observed that rural women belonging to all categories of caste with primary education or even illiterate under the banner of self-help groups (SHGs) had been earning not only income but feeling empowered. Almost all were below poverty line (BPL) once upon a time and few during the course of study were also were BPL.  Regrading, empowerment, it was reported that almost all women were attending gram sabha meeting and sharing their views.  Even it was reported that all freely talk to bank managers, block officials and others. In this article few cases are presented based on field study. </em></p></div>

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.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Mishra

Self Help Groups (SHGs) are meant to empower women both socially and economically. They encourage women to participate in decision making in the household, community and local domestic sector and prepare rural women to take up leadership positions. This study examines the pre-SHG and post-SHG status of rural SHG members in Puri district of Odisha. On the basis of primary data analysis, the study finds that SHGs have not only produced tangible assets and improved the living conditions of the members, but has also helped in changing much of their social outlook and attitudes. In the study area, SHGs have served the cause of women empowerment, social solidarity and socio-economic betterment of the rural poor.


2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Homa Soroushmehr ◽  
Khalil Kalantari ◽  
Hossein Shabanali Fami ◽  
Valiollah Sarani

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Susmita Gautam

Mother’s Group is one of the basic groups for women empowerment. It has been functioning for women’s empowerment and social development. Mothers group has managed many skill development programs, income generating programs, literacy programs etc which helped them to make independent. Mother’s group, self-help groups (SHG) and community-based organizations (CBO) play a vital role towards women empowerment by providing vocational trainings, training for self-employment, protection for women and self-awareness programs. Thus, they are mainly concerned with the upliftment of the women in the society. Empowerment of women has been a topic discussed at length in recent times and many strategies have been implemented to address enhance women’s condition. This paper seeks to explore some measure that should be adopted in order to position rural women as equal players in entrepreneurship and economic development. This paper discusses upon the empowerment of rural women by means of self-help group or mother’s group and the advantages of such groups among the rural women.


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>


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-344
Author(s):  
Hemangi D. Mehta ◽  
Jyoti S. Han

This paper focuses on the level of women empowerment in rural areas. Women are critical to a thriving rural economy, especially in developing countries such as India. Rural women today have been suffering a lot due to the feeling of helplessness and lack of decisionmaking capabilities in financial matters. Self-help groups (SHGs) are the most recent development for them which could enable them to come forward and make them self dependent and self employed. The main objective of this study is SHGs Contribution of empowerment level in rural areas women. Self –help groups have been playing considerable role in communication level of members, change in family violence, frequency of interaction with outsiders, change in the saving pattern of SHG members, achieving social harmony and sustainability-financial value.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
K. Rukmani

This paper have been discussed on Empowerment of Women in India covering variety of problems and issues, micro, macro and regional levels, and almost all general aspects of related to women empowerment have been studies by social sciences. Micro-nance has emerged as a powerful tool for women empowerment in the new economy. In India, micronance distribution is mainly dominated by Self Help Groups (SHGs). It aims at providing a cost effective mechanism for providing nancial services to the poor section of the society. As apparent from the preceding detailed discussion on the existing literature on the empowerment of women at different levels in India, attempts made so far suffer discerningly although with the following signicant limitations: (i) All the studies reveals a predominant bias of being macro level studies. Such studies by their very nature do not touch the core of reality, since it is not possible to know from the inner base of the mountain, the problem. The correct approach necessary is to dissect the problem into small pieces and then make an intensive effort to assess the reality; (ii) in the present development context in India; rapid changes are taking place on the economic scene, which bring in their trail, far reaching changes in the social, cultural, and political aspects of life. Therefore, even though a number of micro-studies existing, initiating of a new study in this area would have undiluted importance as such an attempt is bound to throw up several new facts in any empirical exercise having a bearing on policy issues. Thus, on its own, the necessity of a new micro study remains evergreen.


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