Impact of Self-help Groups on Rural Women in Bankura District, West Bengal

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
Sreemoyee Das
2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ratul Saha

Self Help Groups (SHGs) have emerged as major agents of development and empowerment of weaker sections in countries of the Third World. In India, since the beginning of the Ninth Plan, most of the development programmes have been channelled through SHGs. There is a common perception that women who join SHGs not only become economically empowered but become powerful in many other ways as well. They gain a say in family matters and their social status is enhanced. In the present study, an attempt has been made to judge the extent to which SHGs contribute to the improvement of women awareness and overall development or empowerment of women. In this study, 15 SHGs under SGSY have been selected by applying stratified random sampling method in the Bankura District of West Bengal. The study concluded that the women empowerment is still in process at the moderate level in our study area.


2020 ◽  
pp. 097317412096535
Author(s):  
Lipika Kamra

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.


2021 ◽  
pp. 0258042X2110261
Author(s):  
Amit Kundu ◽  
Sangita Das

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).


Author(s):  
Dr. N. Rameshkumar

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.


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