Journal of Rural and Industrial Development

Sujit Maji ¹, Sayani Mukhopadhyay ²

Affiliations
1 Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of Geography, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

Haora district is popular mainly for its developed economy as well as the heritage of British India. Here, the service and industrial sectors, both, are playing a significant role in the district’s economy; whereas, the contribution of agricultural sector is negligible. From the study, it is observed that the district has no such strong base in agricultural sector. Mainly, the industrial sector had dominated the economy up to the year 1993; but after that, the dominancy shifted towards the service sector. This sector is still growing and huge employment opportunities have been generated since 1993 until now. However, the recent growth of commercialization and industrialization has made a good scope for horticulture crops. Here, an attempt has been done to find out the opportunities of horticulture in recent industrial and commercial economy and analyse the economic potentialities of different horticulture crops. In that case, primary and secondary data, both, have been used. Field survey has been done here to find out the producers’ outcome of some specific horticulture crops and secondary data have been collected from different government reports, articles, internet sources, etc.

Keywords

Horticulture, Floriculture, NDDP, Economic Return.

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Soumik Halder ¹, Sujit Maji ¹, Sayani Mukhopadhyay ¹

Affiliations
1 Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, IN

Abstract

Women empowerment refers to the development of a suitable environment for women. In the contemporary world, gender equality is considered as a paramount important part of social development. By empowering the women, the dream of ‘gender equality’ can be achieved. Empowerment of women not only makes a woman economically viable but also provides her respects, freedom of thoughts and reduces the violence against women. This study is basically analytical and empirical in nature and focuses on some specific ways of empowering women in rural areas of Churchu block of Hazaribagh district, with a special reference to Self-Help Group (SHG). The main source of livelihood in this block is agriculture, though the people are also depended on the other occupations, i.e. animal husbandry, daily wage labour, non-timber forest product collection and production, etc. SHG has enhanced the potential livelihood-promotion activities by establishing a common mutual understanding and social bonding among the women. This paper explains the causes for joining the SHG, the socioeconomic condition of beneficiaries, the potential women leadership, different types of benefits from SHG and the success of SHGs as a platform of women-led development. In this area, how economic condition is developing through SHG has been find out from this study. The problems related to SHGs are in sight with suggestions.

Keywords

Women Empowerment, Women-Led Development, Self-Help Group.

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