Volume : I, Issue : VI, November - 2012

Strategies For Livelihood Promotion Of Women Self Help Groups In Indira Kranthi Patham In Andhra Pradesh

T. Saidanna, A. Sailaja

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Achieving the millennium development goal(MDG) of halving the proportion of people living in absolute poverty by 2015 will require agriculture to play a major role. Increasing agricultural productivity remains perhaps the single most important determinant of economic and poverty reduction and hence provides the key to achieve the MDG. Sustainable food production is still the primary pursuit.Economic liberalization and WTO regime pose a big challenge to Indian agriculture.The largest poverty alleviation project being implemented by Society for elimination of rural poverty (SERP, a NGO) and funded by District rural development agency (DRDA) in Andhra Pradesh is Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP). The goal of the Indira Kranthi Patham project is to reduce poverty of below poverty line households through sustainable community based women organizations by introducing livelihood interventions through institution building, human resource capacity building and community managed sustainable agriculture. A study was conducted to understand these aspects of Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP) along with the problems encountered by the members of women self help groups for livelihood promotion.Based on these results,strategies were suggested for effective implementation of IKP for livelihood promotion.Various organizational ,technical and extension strategies for livelihood promotion of self help groups through IKP were proposed after a thorough study of the programme. The study shows a path of movement to make women groups self reliant and thus serve as major contributors for sustainable and livelihood security . | Agriculture related science and technology have influenced the life of rural people at large and helped in reducing the food security in developing countries like India. But sustainable food production is still the primary pursuit economic liberalization and WTO regime poses a big challenge to Indian agriculture. Further, the recent spatial and sectoral changes in agri–rural environment suggest that the agriculture growth rate can be further boosted up. 65 to 68 per cent of the cultivable land area in India is in rainfed areas. There is no assured water supply because of the vagaries of nature, often crops dry up. It has therefore, become imperative to protect farmers against such losses. If such assurances are not given to farmers, they may give up farming and turn to some other vocation or employment.Andhra Pradesh has used self help groups (SHGs) extensively as a primary tool for poverty alleviation and empowerment. The basic principle behind SHG functioning is collective action with suitable support, self help groups can move on to collective action at the community level but more remains to be done for sustained poverty alleviation.

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T.SAIDANNA, A.SAILAJA Strategies For Livelihood Promotion Of Women Self Help Groups In Indira Kranthi Patham In Andhra Pradesh International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.I, Issue.VI Nov 2012

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