Abstract Views :245 |
PDF Views:0
Authors
Affiliations
1 S.S. Khanna Girls College, Allahabad, IN
Source
International Journal of Reviews and Research in Social Sciences, Vol 5, No 3 (2017), Pagination: 143-146
Abstract
The present study is an attempt to understand the functioning of self help groups and its effect on decision making process at the level of family, community and group. A sample of two women Self Help Groups continuously working from ten years is selected for the study. Primary data are collected through observation, focus group discussions and interviews of members of SHG and secondary data collected from the monthly meeting of the SHG, block and the bank. Analysis of data reveals that the SC women are actively involved in decision making on the education of children, and reproductive decisions at family level, on the group level they also taking decision on non-payment or late payment, whom to give loans, and on community level they involve in pulse polio programmes, vaccination of children and decision on whom to give vote.
Keywords
Scheduled Caste Women, Self Help Groups, and Decision Making.
References
- J.P. Mishra, R.R. Verma and V.K. Singh (2001), “Socio-Economic Analysis of self-help groups scheme in block Amaniganj, District Faizabad (Uttar Pradesh, Indian journal of agricultural economics, pp.473-474)
- Prof. S.K. Singh and his research team ‘Microfinance and Empowerment of Scheduled Caste Women: An impact study of SHGs in Utter Pradesh and Uttaranchal.
- P.Venkatarao (2009), ‘Role of SHGs in the empowerment of women’ SEDME 36.1, pp.29-45.
- Samar K. Datta and M. Raman, 2001, ‘Can heterogeneity and social cohesion coexist in self help group? An evidence from group lending in Andhra Pradesh in India, Indian journal of agricultural economics, vol. 56, no. 3, July-sep. pp.387-400.
