Personal Socio-Economic Profile of the Women SHG Members in Udaipur District of Rajasthan

Author: Abhilasha Gehlot, Krishna Kumari Purbia, Vishal Dadheech, Hitesh Salvi and Himani Kumawat

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Abstract

A Self-help group (SHG) is a financial intermediary committee. It usually composed of 10-20 local women members. The research work was performed in Udaipur district of Rajasthan state. For this research among the 17 tehsils of Udaipur district Rishabhdev and Kherwara tehsil were selected as they are having highest number of SHG. We have selected 20 SHG from 2 selected tehsil and 6 farm women from each SHG. Thus, total 120 farm women were selected for proposed study. For data collection, the face-to-face interview technique was opted. The frequency and percentage were used to classify the respondents with respect to independent variables. Also, Mean Percentage Score, Ranking, Arithmetic mean, and Standard deviation were also calculated for the present study. The results revealed that major part of respondents was from middle age group. The results also publicized that 45.83 percent farm women were illiterate. Maximum number of respondents were married. It was also established that maximum number of respondents were from joint family. The study of caste structure revealed that 100 percent of farming families belong to SC/ST category. Maximum number of farm women have poorly developed houses. It was also observed that maximum number of farm women were doing other occupation in their locality. It had been observed that majority of farm women got source of information through organized source. The key challenges in this study are to empower farm women through Self-help group activities promoted by Rajasthan Government, to encourage women’s participation and gain knowledge in various field of agriculture.

Keywords

Self-help group, Empowerment, Women, Socio-economic

Conclusion

It was concluded that women SHG members have medium level of personal socio-economic condition. The present study has been conducted under limited characteristics, so that, it will be better if more characteristics of women SHG members are taken further research in this area. As socio economic status of the women SHG is a complex phenomenon and includes so many things as stated earlier, it may be possible that some important components might have skipped out which may be considered by other research workers in future.

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Abhilasha Gehlot, Krishna Kumari Purbia, Vishal Dadheech, Hitesh Salvi and Himani Kumawat (2023). Personal Socio-Economic Profile of the Women SHG Members in Udaipur District of Rajasthan. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(10): 328-336.