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100			_aDeivam, M.
245			_aSelf help groups in Tamil Nadu: an identity for women empowerment
260			_c2008
300			_ap.157-64.
362			_aJan-Mar
520			_aWomen empowerment is a comprehensive and much debated issue, and it is a dynamic, multi-dimensional process, which intends to enable women to realize their all powers and potential in all spheres of life. All over the world there is a realization that the best way to tackle poverty and enable the community to improve its quality of life is through social mobilization of poor, especially women into self help groups. Ever since independence a number of innovative schemes have been launched for the upliftment of women in our country. Indian government has taken lot of initiatives to strengthen the institutional rural credit system and development programmes. The Indian government adopted the approach of Self Help Groups (SHGs) to uplift the rural poor women. The empowerment of women through Self Help Groups (SHGs) would lead to benefits not only to the individual woman and women groups but also the families and community as a whole through collective action for development. The present article tries to analyse the efforts of Tamilnadu in making the Self Help Groups as an identity of women empowerment. - Reproduced.
650			_aWomen - India - Tamil Nadu
650			_aSelf help - India - Tamil Nadu
650			_aSelf help
773			_aIndian Journal of Political Science
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