International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2016, Volume : 6, Issue : 11
First page : ( 437) Last page : ( 448)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Self-help groups: The right tool for poverty alleviation and women empowerment

Dr. Shukla Anshu

Assistant Professor, Vasant Kanya Mahavidyalya, Kamachha, Varanasi

Online published on 24 April, 2018.

Abstract

Poverty is almost a social misery, contaminated in an every socio-economic zone, spreaded itself among all over the deprived section of the population gradually. The concerned paper basically assessing the role of Self-help group approach in eradication of poverty, its successiveness in generating income and the impact of micro credit on the empowerment of the women members of the self-help groups. The study is primarily based on the field survey, conducted in four blocks of the Udham singh nagar district of Uttaranchal. This study takes into account the members of the self-help groups for better understanding the process through which they build up their income generating sources. To figure out the impact self-help groups in these directions a simple chi-square tests as well as the t-test have been used to rectify the changes that have been took place due to injection of group approach in the field of rural development. The results show that self-help groups promote awareness among the women members and provide sufficient opportunities to combat with poverty. Further the self-help groups have come out as a significant factor in generation of income and occupations of the members which also requires conditions like better disbursement of the micro credit to the members and these things should be taken care of for getting more active success in this area.

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Keywords

Self-help groups, poverty alleviation, income generation.

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