Self Help Groups and Women Empowerment: Study Conducted in Block Gundana

Abstract

The research carried out in the form of study accentuates the under-privileged plight of women in the downtrodden and backward areas like Gundana block of the district Doda Jammu and Kashmir State and how development schemes like State Rural Livelihoods Mission (SRLM) positively implicate the socio economic and socio political empowerment of women. The study would highlight how one of the instruments ‘Self Help Groups' of the JKSRLM has dramatically led to a transformation of women economically as well as politically and thus led to an overall development and independence of women in the area. The study would also emphasize how economic liberalization brought about by the establishment of SHGs enormously helps women to become a source and means of change in other spheres of life.