International Journal of Commerce & Business Management

K. Indumathy ¹, P. Muthiah Manoharan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, Centre for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, T.N., IN

Abstract

India has the largest scheduled tribal population compared to any other countries of the world. Tribal communities are most disadvantaged groups than others. Tribal developmental programmes were introduced into the various tribal streams for their upliftment in various directions. To analyse the different programmes, the study was conducted in Kolli hills of Namakkal district with the main objective of assessing the attitude of tribes towards developmental interventions. A sample of 100 farmers was selected from 5 village Panchayats and total tribes were interviewed. It was found that the majority of the tribes expressed about the information on governmental and nongovernmental schemes. Considering the objective, an attitude scale was developed to measure the attitude of tribes towards developmental programmes by using equal appearing scale interval method. Since the selected scale values should have equal appearing interval and distributed uniformly along the psychological continuum, it was necessary to form nine compartments so as to select nine statements at one statement from each compartment. Based on high scale and low Q values, nine attitude statements were finally selected and administered for assessing the tribal attitude. Majority of the farmers possessed favourable attitude towards government and nongovernmental programmes.

Keywords

Attitude Scale Construction, Developmental Programmes, Tribal Farmers, Equal Appearing Interval Method

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K. Indumathy ¹, P. Sanjeevi ¹, C. Dharmadurai ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agricultural Extension, Adhiparasakthi Agricultural College, G. B. Nagar, Kalavai (T.N.), IN

Abstract

The present investigation was conducted in Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu state. The main objective of the study was to know the empowerment of women through self-help groups. A structured interview schedule was used to collect data from 90 respondents who have participated in SHGs. The statistical methods and tests such as frequency, mean and percentage were used for the analysis of the data. The results of the study showed that most of the respondents were psychologically empowered in self-image (73.33 %) and feeling of security in family (47.78 %). (72.22 %) of the respondents were empowered in actual participation in festivals and (64.44 %) of the respondents were economically empowered to start new business.

Keywords

Self-Help Groups, Empowerment, Rural Women.

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