Poverty Alleviation Through Income Generation: Role of Women Self Help Groups
Journal Title: International Journal of Educational Science and Research (IJESR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
The single greatest challenge, which the world faces today, is eliminating poverty from the globe. In the world nearly one out of four persons lives in absolute poverty and seventy per cent of these people are women .The poor women do not have enough capital to take up business enterprise on an individual basis. Self Help Groups (SHGs) have become significant institutions for poverty eradication and rural development by creating self-employment opportunities through microcredit which enhances the income level of women and improve their standard of living. The group approach of SHG makes the available collective wisdom and combined resources to harvest collective strength for poverty alleviation. The investigation was carried in the regions of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, India. A total of 1341 Office Bearers and 4858 Members data was studied for the status of Income Generating Activities, from 447 SHGs covering 264 villages from 228 Blocks (Mandals). Findings revealed that, more than fifty percent of the Self Help Groups were strong with Individual Income generation Activities, but weak in Group Income generation and Entrepreneurial Activities. The strong reason analysed was that, these SHGs were from Farming families and their major thrust is on Agriculture hence expressed their inability to initiate income generating activities, as most of their time goes for farming. Constructive measures with capacity building and continuous handholding, for scaling up big entrepreneurial business models in the areas of agriculture and allied sectors will definitely bring in valuable results, in addressing the poverty by doubling farm families’ income.
Authors and Affiliations
Sarah Kamala, Uma Jyothi
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