Today women are in the process of enriching themselves through Self-Help Group. Tuticorin District having 19 town panchayats formed 1230 SHGs, and their achievement is 259%. The overall objective of the present study is to analysis the economic empowerment of women though SHGs in five coastal...

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...

Freedom of association and the right to form organisations that are genuinely accountable and advance poor people's interests may contribute to sustainable poverty reduction and food security. Cooperatives can help in assuring farmers to have access to inputs, credit, output markets, and...

Women Empowerment is a process that enables women to gain access to and control of material as well as information resources. This approach was first clearly formed in 1985 by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).It is the means by which individuals, groups and communities to...

Microfinance scheme has evolved as an effective instrument for poverty alleviation in developing countries. The micro-financing scheme is dominated by self-help groups in India, which are aimed at providing a cost-effective mechanism for providing financial accommodations to the un-reached poor....