Do SHGs Lead to Women Empowerment? Summative Evidence from Selected Blocks of Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal
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Empowerment of women helps in the process of sustainable growth and development of the economy. Empowerment is a process to improve the extent of self-sufficiency and self determination in the rural people, thereby enabling them to represent interest in an accountable and self determined way. The SHG groups are formed democratically for achieving social and economic goal and are free from political affiliation.
The present research study attempts to examine the women empowerment in the selected blocks of Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal from August, 2022 to February, 2023. For a sample size of 200, survey method is used for collecting primary data through which empowerment index has been constructed.
The empirical findings reveal that women are highly empowered in their social and economic activities, overall, women empowerment in the selected blocks is found to be moderate. The study recommends that SHGs should create more political awareness and improve educational level among the rural women to make them more empowered in their decision making activities.
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