POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH MICROFINANCE – AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SHGS IN TAMILNADU

After independence of India, women have ever important role to economic development of our country. In the recent year Indian women give to equal opportunity, they can equal men. In 2011 census 35.98 million are women living Tamilnadu may be equal population to men, near by 10 to 20 percent are women incomes are based on agricultural, there are no other income particularly village women .That, they affecting their own expenses as well as family expenses. In this occasion, women become entrepreneurial due to poor financial strength, they are converting into entrepreneurial dream into reality. Self – Help Groups is an organization of poor people, emerging from rural population. The SHGs scheme was introduced in Tamilnadu in 1989. Thus study aims to poverty reduction through microfinance with SHGs in Tamilnadu.