Asian Journal of Home Science

Charu Sharma ¹, Kusum Mittal ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, University College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan), IN
2 Department of Home Science, Govt. Meera Girl’s College, Mohan Lal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

Rural women are key agents for development. They play a catalytic role towards achievement of transformational economic, environmental and social changes required for sustainable development. In the interest of long term development it is essential to facilitate women empowerment. To achieve the empowerment of women the government of India introduced different programmes. One such programme focusing on unskilled based wageemployment is MGNREGA. Besides meeting out the goal of social protection and livelihood security, MGNREGA promises so much from perspective of women empowerment.In this paper, based on the secondary data an attempt has been made to comprehensively understand the impact of MNREGA in transforming lives of rural women viagainful employment generation.

Keywords

MNREGA, Empowerment, Rural Women, Employment Generation.

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Suman Singh ¹, Hemu Rathore ¹, Charu Sharma ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Family Resource Management, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

Women in India are the backbone of the society and important human resource. Women constitute nearly half the population in any country either it is developed or developing country. They play a significant and crucial role in agriculture and allied operations and household activities. Without socio-economic equality for women in poor sectors of India, the impacts of efforts at development can not become fully realized. Socio-economic status (SES) is an important determinant of the health, nutritional status, mortality, and morbidity of an individual. Through this paper an attempt has been made to assess socio-economic status of farm families of selected villages of Relmagra block of Rajsamand district. The data revealed that a vast majority of household had low socio-economic status in spite of good land holding and irrigation facilities, this calls for bringing improvement in land utilization pattern and diversifying the cultivation pattern.

Keywords

Socio-Economic Status, Agriculture, Farm Families, Development.

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Charu Sharma ¹, Rajshree Upadhyay ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science Extension and Communication Management, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

Women are being increasingly seen as an important index of the social health of the nation. In spite of their active participation, they suffer from deprivation. Constant efforts are being made by the government to improve the status of rural women and paving a way towards economic empowerment, especially those living below the poverty line. One amongst such programme is SGSY, launched from 1st April 1999, covering all the aspects of self-employment such as organization of self-help groups, training, credit, technology, infrastructure and marketing. A study conducted at Girwapanchayat of Udaipur district with randomly selected 100 respondents from women SHGs formed under SGSY. The findings of the study indicated that most of the respondents gained economic benefits to high extent were increase in overall family income and get-off worries from every day employment with MWS from 1.57 to 1.61. Further mean income increased from Rs. 588.50 to Rs. 2888 which was found to be highly significant.

Keywords

SGSY, Employment, Income Generation, SHGs.

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