Impact of swarna jayanthi gram swarozgar yojana (SGSY) on women empowerment

The study was conducted in Bangalore Rural and Hassan districts of Karnataka state to find the extent of participation and socio-economic status of SGSY beneficiaries. From Bangalore Rural district Doddaballapura taluk and Hassan taluk from Hassan district was selected for the study. From each taluk 25 SGSY beneficiaries were selected, hence the total sample size of the study was 50. The results indicated that majority (38%) of the SGSY beneficiaries belongs to medium level participation category and low (40%) socio-economic status group. A large number of them had middle school education (58%), depending on farming (90%), belonged to backward caste (70%), nuclear family (70%), had medium family size (76%), socio-political participation (60%), immovable assets (40%) and equal per cent (44%) of them belonged to low level of annual income and movable assets group respectively. The personal, communication and psychological characteristics explained to an extent of 31.10 percent of variation in EOP of SGSY beneficiaries.