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Women Empowerment through Self Help Group in Haryana
Khushnandan
MA, UGC NET/JRF
M D University Rohtak
Email: khushnandangiroh@gmail.com
M. 9991427002
Abstract:
The campaign was first announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his 15 August 2015
address from the Red Fort. It is focused on to restrict role of States in policy domain and to
get rid of "license raj" and hindrances like in land permissions, foreign investment proposal,
environmental clearances. It was organized by Department of Industrial Policy and
Promotion (DIPP). The present study analyzed the women empowerment through startup
India. By Self Help Group (SHG) women empowerment of various aspects like as
educational empowerment, social empowerment, economically empowerment and political
empowerment and Standup India initiative empowerment among SCs/STs, women
communities.
Key words SHG, Empowerment and women
Introduction :
Empowerment refers to increasing the religious, political, social or economic strength of
individuals and communities. It often involves the empowered developing confidence in
theirown capability.
Today, the self help group movement is increasingly accepted as an innovation in the field of
rural credit in many developing countries including India to help the rural poor considered a
vehicle to reach the disadvantaged and marginalized section, which in the normal course
cannot avail of credit facility from the bank.
Concept and Origin of Self-Help Groups:
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Self-help group is mainly concerned with the poor people. It is a micro-finance concept for
poor people. The concept of SHGs generates confidence, self-scrutiny and self-reliance.
The concept of self help groups had its origin in the co-operative philosophy and the co- operators by and large, including the National Federations in the credit sector, could not think
of any better SHG than a primary co-operative credit society itself. As SHG are small and
economically homogenous affinity groups of rural poor, they are voluntarily coming together
for achieving the following.
To save small amount of money regularly.
To mutually agree to contribute a common fund.
To meet their emergency needs.
To have collective decision making
To solve conflicts through collective leadership mutual discussion.
To provide collateral free loan with terms decided by the group at the market driven
rates.
Women constitute half of the world’s population and hardly receives ten percent of world’
income and owns even less than one percent of world’s property. It is a wide bitter truth in
India that women had been kept in dark in the name of culture, tradition, customs and
religious beliefs. The all round development of any nation would only be possible when their
women develop, only when they consider women equal to men. The status of women in India
has been the subject of concern over the past few millennia. In our society, women are only
considered as the perfect home maker. Indian women are completely devoted to their
families. Despite more than five decades of development women in India are deprived section
of the society. The benefits of development are eluded from them as a category.
Opportunities for education have increased but the rate of female literacy and enrollment in
educational institutions is much less than men. Women perform many activities at home and
outside whose economic value goes unnoticed and unrecognized. In India, gender
discrimination is a deep rooted concept, which is being practiced since from many
generations. Women are discriminated and marginalized at every level in our society like in
field of education, health care, access to economic activities, political and social participation.
Although the Indian constitutions have given both the men and women with equal rights,
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gender disparity still remains. This gender discrimination violates the human rights. This
discrimination against women is hindering in their way of growth.
"India has much anti-discrimination legislations designed to protect women, yet its
implementations has a long way to go. Each year, approximately 1000 honour killings are
done against women. Various symptoms of women disempowerment are female feticide,
female infanticide, acid attacks, rapes sexual harassment and honour killings. Forty-five
percent of women are treated unfairly at work place because of their gender; many others
struggle to rejoin the workforce after giving birth. No place is secure for them, women are
exploited everywhere whether it is home or office. Thus they need an empowerment.
Therefore, if India has to sustain its rate of growth, it will have to break down all these
sizable barriers to women's empowerment, both in the private-sector workforce and in the
entrepreneurial landscape.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:
As long as women do not have the same right in law as men, as long as the birth of a girl does
not receive the same welcome as that a of a boy, so long we should know that India is
suffering from partial paralysis. Suppression of women is inconsistent with principles of
ahimsa.
‘Empower’ means to make one powerful or equip with the powers to face challenges of life
or to overcome the disabilities, handicaps and inequalities. Empowerment is an active, multi- dimensional process which should enable women to realize their full identity and powers in
all sphere of life. It would consist in providing greater access to knowledge and resources,
greater autonomy in decision making, greater ability to plan their lives, greater control over
the circumstances that influences their lives and freedom from the shackles imposed on them
by custom, belief and practice.
The empowerment of women is one of the central issues in the process of development of
economies worldwide. It is one of the most important instruments for the socio economic
development of a nation. Women empowerment refers to process of increasing the spiritual,
political, social and economic strength of women. It often involves the empowerment of
