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Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities
Year : 2012, Volume : 2, Issue : 4
First page : ( 61) Last page : ( 74)
Online ISSN : 2249-7315.

An analysis of constraints in women empowerment in Tribal area: Evidences from Assam

Das Sanjay Kanti, Assistant Professor and Head

Department of Commerce, Lumding College, P.O. - Lumding, District-Nagaon, Assam-782447, India.

Online published on 9 April, 2012.

Abstract

Empowerment is an active and multidimensional process, which enables women to realize their identity and power in all aspects of life. The need for empowerment of tribal's women hardly needs justification. Their primitive way of life, economic and social backwardness, low level of literacy, out dated system of production, absence of value systems, sparse physical infrastructure in backward tribal areas and demographic quality of tribal areas make the development of tribals and tribal areas essential. Government of India launched a lot of programme for development of tribal area, viz. Tribal Sub-Plan strategy, Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996, State/UT Minor Forest Produce Act, 2005 including other Development and Employment Programme etc. Self Help Group-Bank Linkage Programme of the government of India is designed to alleviate poverty and empower women of the country. The status of women in a society is a significant reflection of the level of social justice in that society. In tribal communities, the role of women is substantial and crucial. The Karbis, one of the tribal groups in North east India, constitutes the third largest tribal community in Assam after the Bodos and the Mishings. It is reported that most of the Karbi people are poverty striven. This study was conducted in one of the Autonomous Hill districts of Assam where majority of the karbi tribes reside. Various constraints, which were observed in empowerment of tribal women, were social constraints, political constraints, economic constraints, technological constraints and psychological constraints. The main reason for poor empowerment of tribal women was noted as ‘lack of knowledge about new technology and information’. Further, overall constraints of tribal women in the study area revealed that cognitive and infrastructural constraints were considered as major by the respondents.

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Keywords

Empowerment Constraints, Karbi Tribes, Self Help Groups, Tribal Women, Women Empowerment.

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