Role of SHGs in Women Empowerment

The Women Empowerment Programme aims to organise women, build their capabilities, increase their confidence, and initiate income-generating projects for creating supplementary livelihood in the community. With the objective of bringing social and economic development of women and improving their status in the community, programmes are implemented by SHG s many SHGs in the name of empowerment operating a business which meets or excels the ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations that society has from the business. Here an effort is made to understand the need of SHGs for women empowerment by reviewing some of the activities being implemented by the SHGs. Present paper explores to role of SHG s in women empowerment with the social work perspective. Researcher adopted descriptive research methodology for this empirical effort