SELF HELP GROUP: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES

In this article attempt was made to study the ways to strengthen the women empowerment in the field of social and political area through SHGs. The study guides to the SHGs for enhancing their performance. The social empowerment assists the women to get an important place in her family and society. It also includes a right given to a woman to make use of available resources. It also promote to get knowledge, meet each other, feel improved status in the family, increased self confidence and develop the problem solving techniques. Self Help Group is the best source of women empowerment. The impact of SHGs on women empowerment and social security has been positively improving. SHGs are becoming more than just financial intermediaries, instead they have emerged into a more political and social unit of security. Social empowerment is the process of getting an important place in her family and society and has a right to make use of available resources. The present study will help to the policy formulation to the Governments, Banks, NGOs and many other stakeholders for overall improvement of SHGs. It is also valuable to the concerned SHGs. SHGs help to providing multiplier effect on rural employment to improve standard of living of people. It was discovered that the SHGs played a vital role in providing a sound standard of living to thousands of peoples. Under the study, efforts were made to study the role of SHGs in socio-economic development of the selected area. SHGs experienced different problems in various areas. There was a deep requirement to study many functional areas of SHGs.