Study on the Knowledge and Awareness of SHG Activities among the Women and its Role in Enhancing their Socio-Economic Status

Microfinance is an influential tool to get rid of the poverty in our motherland, India. Microfinance initiatives like the self help group (SHG)–Bank linkage programme, in India has been increasingly promoted for their positive impact on women empowerment. The major objective of paper is to analyze the attitude of respondents towards the access to various facilities with respect to membership of any SHG. As for this study, the secondary data has been collected through various research papers, articles, and websites. As a part of the primary data collection, sample (random) of different villages of Rewa city have been selected for the study. The analyzed findings showed that the access to food security and child marriage was crucial factors for the women which they able to fulfill by being a member of any self help group.