Women Empowerment through Self Help Group

Empowerment of women means making women economically, and socially independent, self reliant, confident and positive in attitude. This helps the women to develop themselves individually and to participate in the developmental activities of the nation. Self Help Group (SHG) is an opportunity for providing gainful employment to the people in below poverty line, thereby improving their income and standard of living. SHG is considered as a growth engine that triggers development process. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the performance of SHGs and its impact on women empowerment.