Self Help Groups: Role and Its Impact on Women Empowerment

The development of Self-Help Group is not eventually a micro-credit project but an empowerment process which means better development in capacity. Because women have partial reception to developmental services provided by various Government agencies, so formation of Self-Help Group is a feasible option for them to ensure their development and to put forth their challenges. It is the most helpful way to accomplish self reliance and social empowerment. It not only empowers the women but also their family and community they live by inculcating the experiences about saving, budgeting and gaining familiarity to face various social and permissible issues. Being a part of Self-Help Group, women need not to depend on others for any help; instead she can seek it from Self-Help Groups to which she belongs, she can start an income generation activity and can perhaps have plenty of opportunities to which she can articulate herself. All in all self help groups play a vital role in constructing women folk self reliant and economically independent.