Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

Attitude of Rural Women's towards the Self Help Group (SHG)

Macha Sunanda

Abstract :

Self Help Groups(SHGs) have become significant institutions for rural development. It is now being increasingly realized that instead of targeting the individual in the process of development, it would be more useful to adopt the approach of group development. Considering the growing significance of self–help groups for women empowerment, Objective of Self Help Group formation and nurturing it is to motivate and assist the women for productive activities to improve their quality of life. Attitude of rural women towards SHGs need to be studied. Under this backdrop, this study was conducted among rural women those were either member of SHGs or were not member of SHGs in Nalagonda District of Telangana state. Total 80 respondents were selected (40 members of SHGs and 40 non members of SHGs) by using multistage random sampling technique. An attitude scale was constructed for the study. The appropriate statistical tests were used for analysis of data. From the study, it was revealed that majority of SHG member and few non SHG member respondents had moderate favorable attitude towards of SHG (55% of SHG members and 42% of SHG non members). In case of SHG members with respect person variable like Education and Occupation variable wise found no significant attitude towards the SHGs. And highly qualified and Daily labors, agriculture workers and Beedi Workers were more favorable attitude towards SHGs rather than other education and other workers respectively.

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ATTITUDE OF RURAL WOMEN'S TOWARDS THE SELF HELP GROUP (SHG), Macha Sunanda PARIPEX - INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019

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